The holiday season is often a difficult time for many people. This year especially with the uncertainty of the pandemic and loss of loved ones, high unemployment rate, rise in addiction, mental health issues and loneliness, - our nation has faced deep challenges. The trials 2020 has presented us are numerous and far reaching for [...]
Rockbridge graduates serve in a variety of ministry settings around the world. My dear friend Brad Baker is an RS graduate who serves as an Executive Pastor at New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I first met Brad and his wonderful family when they came on staff at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California. [...]
Visionaries offer us dreams with wings. They help us envision a potential future and the shape it could take with imagination, creativity and wisdom. Rockbridge Seminary exists in part because of the visionary capacity from our cofounder, Dr. Daryl Eldridge. His spiritual leadership, ingenuity and ability to see what could be has shaped Rockbridge from [...]
Amy and I were a young married couple during my last semester of traditional seminary. During this season my professor Dr. Sam Simmons, cofounder of Rockbridge Seminary, invited me into a conversation about a new kind of educational approach to training ministers in churches. He spoke of a seminary experience that would not require pastors, [...]
Dr. Ingrid Buch-Wagler, one of our long-time faculty members passed away August 31, 2020. Dr. Buch-Wagler left an indelible print on our students and seminary. She will be greatly missed. Ingrid Buch-Wagler held a Ph.D. in Conflict Management from Trinity Theological Seminary and taught at Rockbridge Seminary since 2009. Her classes included Developing the Focused [...]
The most important factor to consider when choosing a leader is not their beliefs or ideas, but their character. Experience, vision, ideas, and strategies are all important, but character trumps all. A leader can gain experience. Vision, ideas, and strategies change, but character tells who a leader really is and what they will do. Jeremiah [...]
Many years ago, when my wife Amy and I visited New York City for the first time, I was in awe of the size of the skyscrapers. New York City boasts over 6,000 tall buildings and over 250 Skyscrapers. I was impressed and somewhat mesmerized by these giants and so curious to know what it [...]
What does it take to be an effective minister of the gospel? That was the question that launched Rockbridge Seminary. When we began this new approach to seminary education, we worked with hundreds of pastors to identified 35 competencies for effective ministry. Those competencies were organized by purpose: fellowship, discipleship, ministry, evangelism, and worship. Out [...]
Commencement comes from a Latin word that means inception or beginning. The name refers to the ceremony of initiation for new scholars into the fellowship of university teachers in medieval Europe. The event marked their entrance into full-fledged academic lives. In other words, those who had been taught were expected now to teach others what [...]
I live in Galveston, Texas, where Juneteenth, the celebration of the emancipation of slaves, originated. It was on June 19th, 1865, that Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed on our island with the news that the war had ended and slaves were now free. This news was two and a half years [...]
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