“One source of stability in the midst of upheaval and uncertainty is the memory of how our God has sustained and protected us through the year. That’s why I think this year’s Denver Seminary Christmas devotional is perfect for a year like 2020. It contains twenty-four carefully curated passages from the annual Christmas letters written…
Denver Seminary’s Fall 2020 issue of Engage Magazine features “Christ’s Return and the Mystery of the Millennium” by Dr. Scott Wenig, professor of applied theology, in which he explores various eschatological views on Christ’s millennial kingdom and what those interpretations mean for Christians today. In addition to faculty articles, you’ll find stories about current students…
In 1950 a group of pastors set out to create a flagship seminary for the fledgling association of Conservative Baptist churches in the Rocky Mountain region. Their concern was that the seminary train pastors and missionaries who would be faithful to the gospel and to the trustworthiness of Scripture. Now 70 years later, Denver Seminary…
Learn more about the publications that Denver Seminary’s distinguished faculty have written and contributed to on a broad range of topics. Lynn Cohick, PhDProvost/Dean and Professor of New TestamentThe Letter to the Ephesians The letter to the Ephesians (out this fall) provokes interpretive questions of authorship, audience, date, occasion, and purpose of writing. Interacting critically…
One Denver Seminary student has been used by God in more than a few surprising ways….
“I am deeply grieved to the point of death,” Jesus told Peter, James, and John in the garden of Gethsemane. “Remain here and stay awake.” They couldn’t do it, of course. The disciples kept drifting off to sleep, provoking the frustration of a Savior just hours away from death. “Can you just stay awake with…
A Letter from the President by Dr. Mark Young In the Classroom Where is God in a Pandemic? by Dr. Douglas Groothuis Makes You Think Christ-Centered Family Relationships during a Crisis by Dr. Ron Welch Engage Magazine is typically a biannual print and online publication, but was shortened this season due to the impact of…
Makes You ThinkRon Welch,Professor of Counseling It is said that a crisis brings out the best and worst in people. That certainly seems to have been proven true during the current COVID-19 crisis. We’ve seen neighbors going out of their way to help those in need in their communities, and we’ve seen people shoving others…
In the ClassroomDoug Groothuis, Professor of Philosophy Crises test our faith, whatever that faith may be. Since faith is only as good as its object, we need to lay hold of the truth to face our trials with confidence. Positive thinking and sunny optimism will not do for the matters of life and death thrown…
We hear the words “unprecedented,” “novel,” and “once in a lifetime” to describe our current experience of the coronavirus pandemic. Those descriptors ring true to most of us who have lived in a culture of health, affluence, and security, all of which have now been threatened by an unseen worldwide enemy. Despite our intuitive sense…