Excerpts from Sermons by Dr. John Huffman, Chairman of the Board of Trustees
Eight Things Not Taught in Seminary Part 1, October 29, 2013
Eight Things Not Taught in Seminary Part 2, October 30, 2013
1. Seminary is the best place in the world to lose your faith.
2. Maintain a daily devotional life independent of your studies and sermon preparation.
3. The highest calling tin the world is not professional ministry.
4. You will never be more in ministry than you are today.
5. Get involved now in a covenant group and never be without one all through your ministry.
6. A simple trust in God's Word is more important than a highly sophisticated intellectual set of answers for everything.
7. Spend as much time in the newspaper as in the Bible, and vice versa.
8. Be faithful to biblical moral standards now.
9. Develop a physical exercise program now and treat it as faithfully as you do your devotional life.
10. Ministry marriages are not exempt from the same problems other marriages have.
11. Begin tithing now, don't rationalize that you will do it later.
12. If you mess up, claim God's grace, get help, and get up and get going.
13. Pastors too come from dysfunctional families and can perpetuate it and even originate it.
14. Because you are in fulltime Christian services does not mean you are exempt from catastrophe.
15. Yours is the privilege of a "task within a task."
16. Write out one sermon per week as your best effort and then claim God's help to come as close to possible to preaching without notes.
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