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Foundation Board
• • • • •Events
Spring Retreat
Each spring, Foundation Board members and invited guests gather at a warm-weather location for a special retreat. This is a great opportunity for donors to interact with Dr. and Mrs. Mohler and other Seminary personnel in a beautiful and relaxed setting. The retreat combines delicious meals, challenging Bible teaching, Seminary updates, and a variety of recreational opportunities to make for a memorable time away. You will return home encouraged and refreshed!
In 2009, the retreat will be held at the Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort, located on the Northwest Florida Gulf Coast, in Destin, Florida. The Resort includes the sparkling white beaches and emerald green waters of the Gulf, four championship golf courses, and a variety of places to shop. The dates are March 25th-28th. Mark your calendars and make plans to join us. For more information, contact Shelley Sullivan at 1-800-626-5525, or locally at 897-4700.
Heritage Week
Southern Seminary has been blessed with a rich heritage of equipping Christian ministers, missionaries, and leaders for a lifetime of faithful service. The year 2009 marks 150 years of training, educating, and preparing God-called ministers of the gospel to share the good news of Jesus Christ worldwide.
Each year, we celebrate our heritage with a weeklong gathering on campus to remind us of the stewardship that has been entrusted to our care. Heritage Week is also a time to renew our commitment to fulfill the mission of the Seminary with both faithfulness and excellence in training the next generation of students for the glory of God.
Foundation Board members and guests are encouraged to join us for this inspiring week. We invite you to experience our chapel services, sit in on a class, rub shoulders with our students, and enjoy the fellowship of other Board members. Guest speakers provide chapel messages that will enrich you spiritually. We’ll enjoy some wonderful meals together and have the opportunity to interact with Dr. Mohler and other faculty members firsthand. There’s nothing quite like being on campus to really sense what God is doing at Southern Seminary!
The dates this year are October 13-15, 2009. For additional information, contact Shelley Sullivan at 1-800-626-5525, or locally at 897-4700.
Heritage Golf Classic
The Heritage Golf Classic was established to help fund theological education for students training for Christian ministry. With your partnership, the Heritage Golf Classic aids in preparing godly ministers to be equipped for the challenge of fulfilling the Great Commission in this generation.
A highlight of Southern Seminary’s annual Heritage Week celebration, the Heritage Golf Classic will be held on October 15, 2009 at Fuzzy Zoeller’s Covered Bridge Golf Club. For more information about Covered Bridge and directions to the course: http://www.coveredbridge.com/.
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Announcements
RSS- Christianity in Africa class
A special opportunity is available to students during the upcoming winter term. Along with George Martin, Randy Arnett (over 30 years ministry experience in West Africa) and Charles Juma (from East Africa) will be offering the course 33477, “Topics in Missions: Christianity in Africa.” The seminar format class will be offered from 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Dec. 14-18. (more…)
- Church planting family banquet
On Friday, Dec. 4, the Church Planting Center will be hosting its annual church planting family banquet from 6-8 p.m. in the President’s Reception Room. You must RSVP by Nov. 24 to attend. Come hear Cincinnati-area church planter and Southern Seminary graduate Michael Clary, and his wife share about the difficulties and delights of being a church planting family. (more…)
- Study break during finals
The SBTS Student Council will serve coffee and doughnuts to all students from 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 1. Come by the lobby of 5th and Broadway early to pick up your free Blue Book for you final exam. The event is sponsored by the Seminary Student Council.
Blogs
RSS- Render Not to Caesar What Is God’s
- by – Nov 20
I just finished reading and signing The Manhattan Declaration (MD), and I urge you to do the same. The Manhattan Declaration is a document affirming the sanctity of human life, the sanctity of marriage, and the rights of conscience and religious liberty.
- The Blur of Gender — Is The New York Times Trying to Tell Us Something?
- by – Nov 20
Is The New York Times trying to tell us something? Just eleven days after running a story on gender-bending teenagers on the front page of its “Style” section, the paper is back with yet another front page story in the same section, this time on gender-bending young adults. The articles even cite the same psychologist as authority. What’s going on here?
- When Morality Collapses — The Therapeutic Evasion
- by – Nov 19
Any civilization requires a stable, rational, and consensual moral framework in order to survive. Western civilization has been built on a framework of Christian morality, with the so-called “Judeo-Christian ethic” providing the moral principles that support laws, ethical reasoning, and moral impulses.
- Turning the Bible into Toilet Paper
- by – Nov 18
I mentioned yesterday that I am in New Orleans this week to deliver a paper on homosexuality at the Evangelical Theological Society. Yesterday I came across an article that relates to the subject matter of that paper.