Bethlehem College and Seminary

Have you ever wondered why the power of Christ is perfected in our weakness? Or why an all-powerful and eternal God weakens us to strengthen us in Him? We learn from the life of Paul in 2 Corinthians that He does so for our good and His glory.

So to keep me from becoming conceited because of t...

In 1936 J. R. R. Tolkien gave the annual Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture to the British Academy. This talk was later published as the essay “Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics.” The primary point of this lecture and later essay was the offering of a defense for studying the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf as a poetic work. It sounds obvious b...

A few weeks ago, the incoming seminarians attended our “Telling God’s Story” retreat. At this annual gathering, new students dedicate a whole day to hearing each other’s conversion stories and calls to ministry. I limited each man to only 5–7 minutes, but happily, they exceeded that limit out of an abundant sense of gratitude for God’s work in their lives. I listened w...

Last week we welcomed new and returning students back to campus for Bethlehem College and Seminary’s eighteenth year of education in serious joy. God’s Word calls us to “welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God” (Romans 15:7), and we strived to show the welcome of Christ to these incoming students and their ...

The remedy for fear and dismay is found in the person of God: his presence and character. As seminary graduation and moving out of state approached, my family and I he...