My first week of seminary is over. I am taking four courses:

• Greek Exegesis I • Hermeneutics • The Biblical Theology of Emotion • Discipleship Lab

Three of them will be easy and one of them will cause me to question my calling. Well, not really. It will just require a lot of time to study. I am the only M.Div student in the class. The rest of them are Th.M students. But I am excited because it is a subject that I’m interested in and I wrote a paper on it last fall. We will look at how God in the OT and Christ in the NT exhibit four core emotions: love, joy, sorrow, anger. Ultimately, we are going to look at what application it all has on the Christian life.

I know that seminary will challenge me in many different ways and may possibly threaten some important things, if I am not careful. I intend to compose a list of seminary resolutions – commitments that I will make to God and to myself for the purpose of keeping my priorities in line and coming out the other side with a deeper knowledge of God, a greater love for Christ, and a greater dependence on the Spirit. We’ll see how soon I get to those.