Presidential Newsletter #19
February 12, 2026 2026-03-16 14:33Presidential Newsletter #19
Dearest Sattler Stakeholders,
I’m eager to share to share Presidential Newsletter #1. Onward to power, love, and sound minds/discipline (2 Tim 1:7).
Return to Spring Semester
After a restful winter break, our students and faculty have returned to campus for the spring semester. Classrooms are once again full, and we are grateful to resume the shared work of learning, discipleship, and formation together.
Snow Storm in Boston
Boston experienced its first major snowstorm of the year recently, with over two feet of snow falling across the city, placing it among the ten largest storms on record. For two days, classes moved online as the storm passed through.
What struck me most was not the severity of the storm, but the life of our community during it. Students studied together, played board games, made donuts, and cared for one another as the city slowed down around them. Moments like these remind me that the Sattler dorms are far more than housing. They are places where students live, learn, and grow together through both ordinary days and unexpected disruptions. I am grateful for God’s protection and for the resilience and joy of our students.
Berean Challenge
I would like to invite you to join us on March 21 from 2:00–4:00 PM for Sattler College’s inaugural Berean Challenge, a Bible knowledge competition hosted on our campus. This event is open exclusively to high school students and is designed to be both lively and rigorous, welcoming those who come well-prepared as well as those who simply rely on what they already know.
The winner of the competition will receive a $1,000 cash prize.
My hope for the Berean Challenge is that it would encourage careful study of God’s Word while also fostering fellowship and healthy competition. Even if you are not participating, you are warmly invited to attend, cheer on the students, and enjoy the afternoon together.
Participation is limited to 70 contestants. Sign up here.
Therefore Go Conference: Good News to the Poor
I would also like to invite you to join us March 20–21 for our annual Therefore Go Conference. This gathering is an important opportunity for our community to reflect on what it means to live out the call of the Gospel in faithfulness and love.
This year’s theme, “Good News to the Poor,” will challenge us to think carefully about Christian responsibility, mercy, and mission. We are excited to announce Dr. George Kalantzis of Wheaton College as one of our keynote speakers, and I am confident his teaching will be both encouraging and sharpening. Sign up here.
Early American History Event in July
I’m eager to share that Discover Boston, our annual summer event for high school students, is happening again, with a new focus on learning American history on-location in Boston.
Over several days, students will explore the people, ideas, and events that shaped the founding of the United States by studying them in the very places they occurred. Together, we will walk the Freedom Trail, examine key moments of the American Revolution, and reflect on the religious and moral vision of early settlers who spoke of Boston as a “city on a hill.” Students will learn about figures such as Paul Revere, Benjamin Franklin, and George Whitefield, and consider how faith, preaching, and public life intersected in early America.
Participants will stay together in our Sattler dorms in Boston’s historic Back Bay neighborhood, with room and board included. Click here for more details or to register.
New Video
We recently released a new video titled “Sattler College: A College that Equips You to Live a Fruitful Christian Life.” In it, I share the heart and vision of Sattler through our Learn, Do, Teach model and explain how we seek to equip students not only to understand the truth, but to live it and teach it. I hope you’ll take a few minutes to watch and share it with others who may be interested in our mission.
Question of the Month
To compete in the contest, answer this question without the use of AI, Google, or other forms of “cheating.” (In other words, you should know the answer.) Click here to submit your answer for a chance to win! This month’s prize is a copy of my book King Jesus Claims His Church. If multiple people get it right, we will select one of those winners for the prize.
Which ante-Nicene church leader is most associated with teaching adoptionism, the idea that Jesus was not God, but merely endowed at his baptism with special power from God?
Answer to the Previous Month’s Question
Eutyches is the individual most prominently associated with the Monophysite position on Christology that was rejected at Chalcedon. The presbyter of Constantinople, Eutyches taught a Christology wherein Jesus was not fully human.
Sharable Thought
[On weighty debates in the history of the church.] “The theological questions really at issue have no significance except on a certain level, a high level, of the spiritual life; they could have been fruitfully debated only between mature and saintly disputants in close privacy and at boundless leisure. Under those conditions formulae might possibly have been found which did justice to the…assertions without compromising other elements of the Christian faith. In fact, however, these questions were raised at a moment when they immediately became embittered and entangled with a whole complex of matters theologically irrelevant, and therefore attracted the fatal attention both of government and the mob. When once this had happened, Europe’s chance to come through unscathed was lost. It was as if men were set to conduct a metaphysical argument at a fair, in competition or (worse still) forced collaboration with the cheapjacks or the round-abouts, under the eyes of an armed and vigilant police force who frequently changed sides.” – C.S. Lewis, Poetry and Prose in the Sixteenth Century
Prayer Requests
- A friend of a faculty member who has breast cancer.
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