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Southern Seminary beefs up biblical counseling faculty By Garrett E. Wishall Southern Seminary continues to bolster its biblical counseling program with the addition of several renowned authors and scholars as visiting faculty. Paul David Tripp, president of Paul Tripp Ministries and a counselor for 25 years, and David Powlison, faculty member at the Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation (CCEF), have both been added to Southern’s faculty as visiting professors. Tripp, who also serves as an adjunct professor at CCEF, said being able to impact the next generation of leaders attracted him to Southern Seminary. He said he looks forward to helping students integrate God’s Word, sound theology and wise counseling into a unified whole. “I view successful ministry as building a bridge from the shore of God’s Word to the shore of everyday life,” he said. “It seems that theologians are often able to build a bridge from the shore of God’s Word and theology, but they struggle with connecting it to every day life. Counselors seem to struggle with the reverse problem. I love having the opportunity to help people build a completed bridge so that they can look at life in a fallen world from a biblical perspective.” Tripp is the author of Lost in the Middle, Age of Opportunity, War of Words and Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hands. He also serves as an adjunct professor at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, where he earned his D.Min. David Powlison edits The Journal of Biblical Counseling, is a visiting professor at Westminster and is the author of several books, including Seeing with New Eyes and Speaking Truth in Love. He earned his master of divinity from Westminster and his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Powlison said he looks forward to teaching at Southern and is pleased with the Seminary’s decision to center its counseling on pastoral ministry and not secular professionalism. Paul David Tripp David Powlison Robert Jones Robert Burrelli “I pray that Christian colleges, universities and seminaries will get a vision toward orienting counseling around the Gospel,” he said. “One expects pastoral training, missionary training and evangelistic training to be centered on the Gospel, but counseling has been the odd sister out. To play a role in [changing] that is a terrific opportunity and a great honor.” In addition to Tripp and Powlison, Southern has added as visiting faculty Robert Jones, assistant professor of biblical counseling at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, and Robert Burrelli, pastor of Grace Bible Church in Bridgewater, Mass. Jones is the author of Uprooting Anger: Biblical Help for a Common Problem and Burrelli is a certified counselor with the National Association of Nouthetic Counselors. Stuart Scott, director of the Center for Biblical Counseling at Southern, said the addition of all four men will help the seminary continue its mission of training biblical counselors. “I am very pleased that several outstanding men in the biblical counseling arena have agreed to come and teach a course or two each year here at Southern Seminary,” said Scott, who also serves as associate professor of biblical counseling at Southern. “Drs. Powlison, Tripp, Burrelli and Jones are fully committed to the sufficiency of God’s Word for counseling and will be invaluable assets to Southern’s growing biblical counseling program.” Tripp said applying the biblical counseling model to counseling, instead of taking a secular or integrated approach, best complements the faithful proclamation of Scripture that should take place in local churches. “If you have a person who is faithful in their attendance to church, and they are hearing good preaching that is giving them a good model of thinking about life – and they then go to a counseling office on Tuesdays that presents a different way of thinking about life, then that is very confusing,” he said. “It is helpful if people are hearing the same thing from counselors that they are hearing from the pulpit.” Over 120 people participated in the 2nd Annual 5K Walk / Run for Missions. Photos by John Gill page 24 Fall 2007 | Southern Seminary Magazine
York squares off against former KY governor in televised gambling debate By David Roach Expanded gambling in the state of Kentucky would be a moral outrage because it involves the government attempting to cash in on sin and broken families, Hershael York said July 30 Hershael York, Southern Seminary professor, debates former KY Governor Brereton Jones (D), July 30 on “Kentucky Tonight.” on “Kentucky Tonight,” a statewide television broadcast on KET. “Enough is enough,” York, who serves as Victor and Louise Lester Professor of Christian Preaching at Southern Seminary in Louisville, Ky., and pastor of Buck Run Baptist Church in Frankfort, Ky., said. “Let’s stop it where it is. It’s bad enough. Families are being destroyed. The government getting a piece of the destruction families to me is completely unacceptable.” Appearing with York were former Kentucky Governor Brereton Jones (D) and Patrick Neely, executive director of the Kentucky Equine Education Project (KEEP) who support expanded gambling. Joining York on the antigambling side was John-Mark Hack, director of Say No to Gambling. The program explored arguments for and against expanded gambling and speculated about how such expansion could affect the Bluegrass State. In the end, Christians must realize that gambling is popular because it appeals to humans’ sinful greed, York said. He noted that the remedy for gambling is for believers in Jesus Christ to follow the admonition to love their neighbors. “Let me say something to those people who call themselves Christians — and I know that’s not everyone,” he said. “But frankly, Jesus told us and the command is ‘love your neighbor as yourself.’ You cannot claim that you love your neighbor as yourself and [that] you want to take his money from him. Gambling is based on getting somebody else’s money.” Boyce College signs former Bryan assistant as Bulldogs head coach By Garrett E. Wishall Boyce College this summer signed Corey Mullins as the new head coach of the Boyce Bulldogs basketball team. Mullins served as head assistant coach of the women’s basketball team at Bryan College in Dayton, Tenn., for the past four years. During that time, Bryan won more than 20 games each season and annually qualified for the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) national tournament, advancing to the round of 16 in 2006. Bryan competes in the Appalachian Athletic Conference of the NAIA. Boyce athletic director Lee Sexton said his on-court success as well as Mullins’ ministry experience made him the right man for the position. “What I saw in Mullins was someone who had been in a very successful program for the past four years as a top assistant,” he said. “The other thing I saw was a commitment to Corey Mullins ministry. He had been a youth director and a children’s minister and had a solid background in the Southern Baptist Convention. I felt like we were getting a good fit for who Boyce and Southern are.” Mullins described the position as a “unique opportunity” because every student-athlete at Boyce senses a definitive call to ministry. He said he looks forward to coaching in that environment. “I want to help continue to train Great Commission workers by using athletics,” he said. “I want to help players develop spiritually, ministerially and academically through athletics. “Success for us in the next few years will come through discipline. This means working hard in the classroom, in the community and on the court. Winning is a by-product of discipline. As we continue to build our program, we will start to win games and in three or four years, I would love to be winning 15 games a season.” Southern Seminary Upcoming Events October 8-12 Heritage Week October 12-13 Seminary Preview Conference October 19-20 Boyce College Preview Conference December 7 January 22 January 28 Seminary Graduation Boyce College Classes Begin Seminary Classes Begin New SBJT defends classical view of atonement from contemporary attacks The cross of Christ has been under attack since the day Jesus hung between two thieves on a hill outside Jerusalem, but there is a surprising new category of opponents who are attacking the traditional view of the death of Christ: evangelical Christian scholars. Essayists in the Summer 2007 edition of The Southern Baptist Journal of Theology (SBJT) interact with both evangelical and non-evangelical scholars who reject the penal substitutionary view of the cross, and contributors defend the historic orthodox view of Christ’s atoning death in the place of wrath-deserving sinners. Southern Seminary Magazine | Fall 2007 page 25
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