Last week I was invited to give a talk on the letters of John to the students of our Chronological School of Biblical Studies. We had fun. And Randy’s Donuts.
The slides of my presentation…
The class was only three hours long, but I probably prepared for 100+ hours — many of which were spent on making the slides you see above… en español no less!
The students are two weeks from completing this nine month course and they were just champs. The School of Biblical Studies is maybe the most academically rigorous course we offer. They study every word of all sixty-six books of the Bible. It’s intense. It can be exhausting. And life-changing.
I prepared for weeks. I looked up all sorts of historical info, including who wrote it, why, and what his point was. I did a deep dive into all my dictionaries, commentaries, handbooks, and other sources. I even enjoyed the Bible Project’s summary that you can find here.
Knowing that they were close to the end of their studies, I thought I’d start their celebrations early — I picked up a couple dozen of Randy’s Donuts on my way down to campus and was happy to pass them out to our tired young scholars.
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