Updates and Reflections from the Interim President
Discover the latest Seminary updates, leadership reflections, chapel presentations, and more from Interim President Dr. David J. Gyertson. Stay connected and inspired as we journey together in our mission and ministry.
Wesleyan Foundations for Faithful Callings: Nurtured in Community
Published on 12.03.2024 - Dr. David Gyertson, in his message titled “Wesleyan Foundations for Faithful Callings: Nurtured in Community,” shares how the Wesleyan renewal movement is informed by the scriptural themes of mutual interdependence and communal living. These themes throughout scripture are rooted in the Trinity itself as the mutually interdependent three persons in one Godhead. Dr. Gyertson shares […]
Wesleyan Foundations for Faithful Callings: Serving Sacrificially
Published on 11.19.2024 - Dr. David Gyertson, in his message titled “Wesleyan Foundations for Faithful Callings: Serving Sacrificially,” shares how the Wesleyan renewal movement is informed by its uncompromised convictions of Biblical essentials and fueled by “agape” love. That love willingly surrenders its own rights, privileges, needs and opportunities to serve the least, the left and the lost, and […]
Wesleyan Foundations for Faithful Callings: Loving Fully & Freely
Published on 10.31.2024 - Dr. David Gyertson’s All Saints’ Day Chapel message titled “Wesleyan Foundations for Faithful Callings: Loving Fully & Freely,” challenges us to embrace the call to leadership grounded in Biblical truths and historical Wesleyanism, with renewed minds, sanctified hearts, and loving hands. Drawing from Philippians 2 and the concept of “kenotic leadership,” Dr. Gyertson emphasizes the […]
Wesleyan Foundations for Faithful Callings: Thinking Deeply
Published on 09.26.2024 - Dr. David Gyertson’s Chapel message, “Wesleyan Foundations for Faithful Callings: Thinking Deeply,” challenges us to embrace the call to leadership grounded in Biblical truths, sanctified hearts, and minds transformed by Christ. Drawing from Philippians 2 and the concept of “kenotic leadership,” Dr. Gyertson emphasizes the importance of humility, service, and community in fulfilling the Great […]
Sharing the Incarnation: Towards a Model of Mimetic Christological Leadership
Published on 09.10.2024 - This paper proposes an early mimetic Christological model of Christian Leadership in Roman Philippi by exploring the judicial, rhetorical structure and the social function of the Philippians hymn (2:5-11) as a cursus pudorum (course of ignominies) that stands in stark contrast to a cursus honorum, the formalized sequence of public offices in first-century Roman cities. […]