Author: Ron Simkins
Ron Simkins
– September 11, 2014
When Donna and I decided that it was OK for me to pass up the opportunity to finish a paid for PhD in theology and the assurance of a future position as a professor in seminary, we thought we were committing to being in Champaign-Urbana for three more years. Since our original plan had been
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Ron Simkins
– August 30, 2014
This may seem to be a strange follow up to the first two posts in this “What I have learned” series, which were about Ideals and Reality and Knowledge, but this lesson has been every bit as important to my growth as the others (which I found much more naturally inclined to pursue). I will never be
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Ron Simkins
– August 20, 2014
As a young pastor/scholar who was fresh off of years of studying theology in seminary, and then philosophy in the University’s PhD program, the goal toward which I was driven was to be the person who could answer every question – mine and anyone else’s. I might not have had the gall to articulate it
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Ron Simkins
– July 30, 2014
Some people who know me might wish to title this series “HAVE YOU LEARNED ANYTHING AT ALL IN 40 YEARS AS PASTOR OF NCF?” That also would be a fair question. We humans do not learn or change easily. But, I do think I have, by the grace of God and God’s people, learned a
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