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Seminary and the Simplicity on the Other Side of Complexity

Apr 26, 2009 by Don Payne | 0 Comments

Oliver Wendell Holmes reportedly once said, "I wouldn't give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity."  A number of times I have used this quote with seminary students to describe one of the functions of a ... [More]

Mentors I Tried to Forget and Am Now Glad I Didn't - pt. II

Apr 19, 2009 by Don Payne | 0 Comments

Dr. Gary Orrino is still the pastor of Baptist Temple in Wheat Ridge, CO.  Though I have not seen him in many years, I owe him much.  He and my father became friends in the early 1970s while they were both church-planters.  When I was fourteen, Dr. Orrino gave me a job cleaning his ... [More]