by David Agron, Ph.D. | May 5, 2020 | 2020, Last WORD, Presidents, Spiritual Life, Spring, The Pretentious Circus
and Other Ways to Look Like You are Building God’s Kingdom When You are Really Building Your Own! When I was studying at Fuller Theological Seminary, the library had a disturbing conundrum. Periodically, a student would pull a book off the shelf, only to find...
by Lynne Free | Jun 2, 2018 | 2018, Fundraising, General, Last WORD, Spring
What’s your cause? Is it funding a Christian university or scholarship program? Perhaps a non-profit food pantry or a missions organization? No matter the cause, generating financial support (fundraising) is a necessary part of it, right? The task seems daunting...
by David Agron, Ph.D. | May 10, 2017 | 2017, Last WORD, Spring
Sadly, on rare occasions I have served with people who were more interested in building their own kingdoms than the Kingdom of God. Still, they do some good. Even Judas only took some of the money from the bag with which he had been entrusted. Might there someday...
by David Agron, Ph.D. | Jan 26, 2016 | 2016, Last WORD, The Case, Winter
My youngest is choosing a college. I hope she will choose a Christian college. The preeminent university in her field is so anti-Christian that they expelled Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship from their school. Certainly, that academic community needs ambassadors of...
by David Agron, Ph.D. | Jun 6, 2015 | 2015, Last WORD, Summer
(Excerpted from commencement address at Yellowstone Christian College) Paul entered the synagogue and spoke boldly there for three months, arguing persuasively about the kingdom of God. But some of them became obstinate; they refused to believe and publicly maligned...
by Bill Ripley | Dec 28, 2014 | Last WORD, Winter
I have been in a classroom of one kind or another since 1967. I got the call to teach, while serving in the United States Peace Corps in a small mountain village of 8,000 inhabitants at 13,000 feet in the Andes Mountains of Peru. I say “call” because I truly feel...
