Jeremy R. Geerdes Posts

That’s all, folks. Turn out the lights and shut the door. My first semester of seminary is in the books, and as of 11:59 pm last night, I’m on Christmas break. So I thought it was a good time to offer another update on the progress of my M.Div. at Wesley Seminary. First, the answer […]

Because it was specifically designed for people already engaged in vocational ministry, a week of online classes at Wesley Seminary runs from Friday through Thursday. Generally speaking, we have homework due each Tuesday and Thursday. Early yesterday morning, as we embarked on Week 10 of this term, one of my professors sent an email to […]

I have a policy. I will happily discuss politics and political candidates as a private citizen, but I will not do so from the pulpit, as pastor. What I am about to say, therefore, are my thoughts. As Paul told the Corinthians, “I (not the Lord) say…”

It’s been a little over eight weeks since I started this seminary journey. We’re now in the sixth week of our first round of online courses, and I think things are going as well as can be expected. The two courses that I’m taking right now are called “Missional Church” and “Change and Transformation,” and […]

Two months ago, I announced that I had been accepted into the Master’s of Divinity (M.Div) program at Wesley Seminary at Indiana Wesleyan University. Although most of this program will be online, after much preparation, this past week, my seminary officially journey began with a trip to Marion, Indiana.

The headlines are grim. Four police-involved shootings in less than a week. Two where police were victims, two where they may have been perpetrators. And our nation seems to be on the brink of a meltdown. What is the Church to do? Some in the Church seem content to stoke the flames. With bold rhetoric, […]

Ever since I embraced God’s call to enter into the ministry, I have wanted to attend seminary (i.e., graduate school for pastors). When I went off to Bible college, my intent was to finish college and proceed straight through seminary before entering the ministry, but the simple fact of the matter is that college is expensive! […]

Years before my wife and I moved to Des Moines to pastor our church, someone planted tulips around the windows on the south side of the building. Of course, anyone who knows much about tulips will know that that they have a tendency to multiply until there are too many of them for a given […]

Note: Today, for the first time since we started holding the service nearly 10 years ago, I had to cancel the Good Friday service at our church. Even so, I wanted to share an abbreviated version of the message I had prepared for the service. So here goes…

It’s been several weeks since I started my study of Oholiab, and I’m a bit frustrated. I knew going into this that Oholiab was obscure, and I realized that there isn’t a whole lot in the Bible about the guy. But I’ve been surprised by just how difficult it is to answer even the most basic […]