Associate Provost, Dean of the Brashier Campus, Director of Doctor of Ministry Studies, and Professor of Christian Spirituality at North Greenville University
Greenville, SC
Joined November 2013
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"Commitment to the formation of character stands in sharp contrast to the values of our own day where personality and celebrity status rather than character is prized." -- Derek Tidball
"A great teacher is not simply one who imparts knowledge to his students, but one who awakens their interest in it and makes them eager to pursue it for themselves. He is a spark plug, not a fuel pipe" --Author Unknown
"Perhaps we could say that if experience without theology eventually leads to heresy, theology without experience often results in hypocrisy. Both are serious threats. Prayer, though, is the key that can 'turn theology into experience.' Smethurst, Tim Keller on the Christian Life
"It is always hard to see the purpose in wilderness wanderings until after they are over." ~John Bunyan
"God’s purpose is both zeal directed by knowledge, knowledge fired with zeal." --John Stott, Your Mind Matters
"Aslan," said Lucy, "you're bigger."
"That is because you are older, little one," answered he."
"Not because you are?"
"I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger."
CS Lewis, Prince Caspian
“My desire for all theology, first and foremost my own, is that it should help people forward in faith, worship, obedience, holiness, and spiritual growth.”
--J. I. Packer, Keep in Step with the Spirit
"Think of theologians as the church’s sewage specialists. Their role is to detect and eliminate intellectual pollution, and to ensure, so far as man can, that God’s life-giving truth flow pure and unpoisoned into Christian hearts."
--JI Packer, Hot Tub Religion
"Grant, O my God,that I may know you, love you and rejoice in you; and if in this life I cannot do these things fully, grant that I may at the least progress in them from day to day, for Christ’s sake. Amen." -- Anselm of Canterbury, 1033-1109 A.D.
Look what I just received! Grateful for Dr. Ray Rhodes' excellent work. I look forward to drinking from the well of his labor of research!
"One thing I asked of the Lord, that I will seek after . . . to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord" (Psalm 27:4 ESV).
"A preoccupation with God's Person and His will. It is the essence of worship; indeed of discipleship." --Derek Kidner
