Current Issue - July

• "What is a seminary? What is seminary education?"
  By Rev. Dr. Dean O. Wenthe
  
  Human life is a remarkable witness to God’s goodness. Man and woman, in the Scriptural account of creation, are the apex of God’s creative work (Genesis 1 and 2). God’s gracious goodness is exhibited by His ordering of all the world—the stars, the sun, the moon, the sea and all the creatures—for the support and enjoyment of Adam and Eve.

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• "The Seminary Library: A Servant of Christ and His People"
  By Dr. Dean O. Wenthe
  
  Imagine a world without the literary masterpieces of Greece, without Plato and Aristotle, without the Roman authors Cicero and Virgil. Even more destructive to the human family would be the loss of Sacred Scripture and early Christian literature.

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• "Serving into the Future"
  By Prof. Robert V. Roethemeyer
  
  One of the best concrete examples of CTS serving into the future is, in fact, now each day more of a concrete reality. As the pictures below illustrate, the library expansion had a visible footprint this spring. By the time you are reading these words, the erection of steel will be underway, adding a vertical dimension.

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• "Pastoral Formation: Thoughts about the Future"
  By Rev. John T. Pless
  
  

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• "Forming Servants Into the Future"
  By Rev. Brian M. Mosemann
  
  Formation for being a servant in Jesus Christ is about who the student is in Christ rather than what the student knows or can do. What the student knows or can do—fruitful service—flows from being in Jesus, learning from Him and growing in Him.

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• "Reaching Out Via Technology"
  By Rev. William S. Johnson
  
  The college graduating class of 2011 will be the first to have never known a day when the Web did not exist. For them, there will always have been .coms and .nets. They will always have interacted with the world using the Web as a part of their spectrum of communication.

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• "Reaching Out in the Sudan"
  By Kristin Hodge
  
  The road was long, dusty and filled with holes that would devour the car that I drive in America. The endless holes on the endless road reminded me of a roller coaster ride that I would pay for at home. It didn't just last three minutes either; it was a 12-hour journey through the jungle of southern Sudan to the city of Wau. What drew me to this place? People, that is, my sisters and brothers of the Evangelical Church in Sudan.

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• "An Enduringly Joyful Thing"
  By Rev. Jason M. Braaten
  
  “Thanks be to God for His inexpressible gift!” (2 Corinthians 9:15) This is St. Paul’s exclamation upon hearing the Corinthian church’s response to the Gospel of Christ and his request. It is likewise the Church’s exclamation at St. Paul’s proclamation of the victory of forgiveness, life and salvation over sin, death and the devil found in our Lord Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection.

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