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Surviving and Thriving in Seminary: An Academic and Spiritual Handbook is unavailable, but you can change that!

Seminary can be rich and rewarding, but also disorienting. In addition to the typical challenges of doing graduate studies, your experiences in seminary have the potential to affect how you see God, other people, and yourself. The stakes are high, but the good news is that you are not alone! In Surviving and Thriving in Seminary, two experienced professors (and former seminary students) tell you...

because there is no gauge for how deep you will need to dig this well; however, the well you dig will give water to the ministries God will call you to throughout your life. If you abandon the well-digging process too early, at some point in your career and ministry you will run out of water and will be left with a thirsty flock. John Piper has said, “Raking is easy, but all you get is leaves; digging is hard, but you might find diamonds.”2 Too often, seminary students are content to remain on the
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