An index of the Writing Information and Help pages on Trinity’s website for student writing help at all degree levels. The following pages will help students make the most of their writing skills. The first link is a full PDF of all the Writing Helps that are contained on Trinity’s website. You may download this file and print it or use it as you need. If you redistribute the information in any way, all we ask is that proper credit be given. Trinity students may contact Trinity at contact@trinitysem.edu if they have further questions.

• Trinity Writing Helps Manual (Printable PDF)
• General Research Paper Guidelines
• Annotated Bibliographies
• Book Reviews
• Turabian Style
• Trinity’s Writing Standards
• How To Think Logically
• How To Outline
• How To Write An Abstract
• How To Write A Precis
• How To Write Correct Sentences
• How To Write Good Paragraphs
• How To Write A Whole Composition
• How To Master Diction, Rhetoric, and Style
• How To Use Headings
• How To Use Outside Sources
• How To Write A Critical Paper
• How To Write A Research Paper
• Helpful Resources

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Perhaps you’ve wondered how it might benefit your ministry, and the incredible work you’re doing for the Kingdom. Many people put off theological education or choose not to pursue their next degree because of the cost or time they suspect it might involve. Some have been out of school for so long that they are unsure they have what it takes to complete rigorous coursework. At Trinity College of the Bible and Theological Seminary, we have made every effort to alleviate these concerns. In fact, we believe that no matter your current situation in life, you can begin at Trinity . . . today!

Take a few minutes to consider this video, and find out why we believe Trinity is right for you. Call us today at 812.602.3320 and ask for an Admissions Advisor, or email us at contact@trinitysem.edu, and we’ll be happy to give you more details on our degree programs.

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Have you started seminary classes but gotten stuck or off-track? Not sure if it’s worth continuing?

In this video, Danny Loeffelholz shares the story of how he got off track and discouraged in seminary, but through Trinity’s online seminary he was able to complete his masters degree and PhD online. Hear the story of his journey.

What will your Trinity story be?

If you want to get your master of divinity online or other online ministry degree on your path towards becoming a pastor, complete the “Request more info” form on the right side of this page.

Video Transcript

Hello, my name is Danny Loeffelholz, and I am a member of Trinity’s 2016 graduating class.

This past August we joined together as graduates to celebrate the completion of our degree. During that weekend I had the privilege of getting to hear the many different Trinity stories that each student had.

My Trinity story began when my wife Kara and I were newlyweds. I had a deep desire to grow in my relationship with Christ and also had a deep desire to be further equipped as a person who wanted to be a pastor one day. So, I enrolled in Trinity, and my story began at that time.

The first year and a half flew by quickly. I grew so much, I learned so much, I was soaking so much up It was as if I was drinking from a fire hydrant. But then my Trinity’s story came to an abrupt halt. I was pursued by a parachurch ministry in a different state. I took the job. A few years later I was offered the opportunity to come on staff with a local church, and during that time as well my wife and I started a family, and now we are parents of three amazing boys.

During that time life just happened but seminary did not. Over that period I finished only two courses, and it brought me to a point to where I began to question do I continue on with seminary.

One night my wife and I had a very honest conversation about the future and seminary and if that was a part of our future or not. I shared with her I was highly discouraged, and I did not want to go on, but my wife lovingly and gracefully looked at me and said, “Danny I believe that you need to finish this.”

After that conversation, I realized that seminary is not simply a personal journey; it’s actually an entire family journey together. Soon after, I finished my master’s program and then rolled straight into the PhD program, and now my Trinity story is complete.

I don’t know what your Trinity story will look like, I don’t know what will be involved in your Trinity story, but I can tell you this: your Trinity story will include interaction with incredible faculty. I can tell you that the Trinity faculty will be extremely personable but also incredibly servant-hearted. Some of my professors not only taught me an incredible amount of content and theological knowledge but also shepherded my heart through my time in their course.

I can also tell you that your Trinity story will include great theological training that will be gospel-centric and will also be academically challenging. And I can tell you this: that your Trinity story will also include a challenge to your walk with Jesus. It will encourage your walk with Christ. It will challenge your pursuit of him and knowing him more.

So, I encourage you to prayerfully consider what your Trinity story might be.

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The truth is, the interactions with staff and fellow students in an online seminary or online bible college are going to be different than a classroom setting. Students can’t arrive for class a few minutes early and chat with fellow students.  They can’t hang out after class to have a face-to-face conversation with their professor.  If you are looking for a face-to-face learning environment, where there is a lot of time for relationship-building, Trinity may not be for you.

However, we at Trinity College of the Bible and Theological Seminary have doing distance learning for 50 years. We understand responsive communication is essential for success.

Trinity Online Seminary Faculty are Accessible

Trinity teachers and professors have a lot of experience working with students in an online environment.  All of our faculty are available by email and phone.  Many of them even give out their cell phone numbers to their students.

We understand that many of our students watch lectures and work on class work in the evenings and weekends. Therefore, we make a point of being accessible and by phone and email in the evenings and on weekends as much as possible.

Trinity Online Bible College Fosters Student Interaction

Most Trinity online bible college classes and online seminary classes also have online forums. These online forums foster interaction among students and faculty.

On Demand Webinar Courses

Many of Trinity’s online bible college courses and online seminary courses are self-paced, which are extremely convenient, especially for our students who are extremely busy with work, ministry and family. By their nature, self-paced classes don’t allow for a group of students to go through the class together.

Therefore, Trinity also offers On Demand Webinar Courses.

An On Demand Webinar Course meets a total of four (4) weeks; course end date is six (6) weeks from the start date. The four weeks utilize asynchronous (non-real time) video lectures and online discussions. On Demand Webinar Courses provide students with a community of learning while completing course requirements, and allow for ongoing interaction with one of Trinity’s faculty members who are experts in their field of study, as well as interaction with other students in order to enrich the learning experience.

Each week you’ll pursue a different aspect of the topic, until all of your assignments are complete. Every On Demand webinar has a set completion date by which all assignments and discussion must be finished. This format strengthens student interaction and helps every Trinity student get the most from their class.

More information can be found on our On Demand Webinar Courses page.

For more information about Trinity, call us at 800-457-5510 or complete the Request More Information form on the right side of this page

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Are you busy with ministry and prefer to take classes at your own pace from the convenience of your home or office?

In the short video below, Dr. Braxton Hunter introduces you to Trinity College of the Bible and Theological Seminary in Evansville, Indiana and explains the benefits of Trinity’s 100% online degree programs.

If you would like to learn more about Trinity, complete the “Request More Information” form on the right side of this page.

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How does a 100% online seminary benefit you, the student?

1) Work at your own pace. 

Everything we do revolves around enabling you to work at your own pace.  This includes things like on-demand webinars and independent study options.  This means if you have a family emergency, a ministry emergency, or a really busy week or two of work you can focus on those things and get back to your class work when time allows.

2) Work on your own schedule.

Most of our students are either already serving in ministry full-time or have another full time job and are studying to enter the ministry full-time. Many of our students have children at home too.  We understand this makes for some crazy schedules. As a 100% online seminary and bible college, you can take classes when it’s convenient for you, whether that’s 5 AM, on your lunch break, after the kids are in bed, or on the weekend.

3) No commute.

If you were to get your degree at a local seminary or bible college, you would have to drive to and from campus multiple times a week.  Trinity students have no commute at all.  They just login to their laptop or tablet from their home or office to watch lectures and do class work.

4) No travel.

Many “online seminary” programs and “online bible college” programs are not entirely online.  Some require expensive and time-consuming travel to their campus for exams or week-long intensive classes.  Trinity’s online seminary and online bible college programs are 100% online. You are not required to travel to our beautiful campus in Evansville, Indiana.  (Though we would love for you to visit and meet in person if you can.)

If the benefits of a 100% online seminary or 100% online bible college would help you, fill out the “Request More Information” form on the right side of this page.

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Since then many other people have done their own “You might be a…” spin-offs.

You Might be a Trinity Seminary Student If…

Every year, hundreds of thousands of people visit Trinity’s website and wonder “Would I be a good fit for Trinity College of the Bible and Theological Seminary?”

We thought this would be fun way to answer that question.

You might be a Trinity seminary (or Trinity bible college student) if…

• You became a pastor and then realized no one ever taught you how to lead a church.
• You’re a pastor and some of the people in your church are not perfect. Some actually want to talk with you about their problems. Understanding biblical counseling would be helpful.
• Driving to class through blizzards or rush hour traffic isn’t your preferred form of relaxation. You would rather take seminary classes in your own home or office.
• Other “online” seminary programs you’ve checked out still require some classes to be taken on campus. You think online seminary should be 100% online.
• You’re 30-60 years old, have a job and a family and can’t go back to school full time
• You live in Africa and the 100+ mile walk to the nearest seminary would be tough on the feet.
• You’re a missionary in the field and don’t have a private jet to fly to the states regularly for seminary classes.
• You’re crazy enough to follow God’s call on your life to become a pastor.
• You love God and want to know Him better.

Do any of these sound like you?

If so, Trinity may be the online seminary for you.  Click to learn more about Trinity seminary or fill out the Request More Information form on the right side of this page.

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In the video below, Dr. Elbert Elliott discuss the preaching degree programs at Trinity Seminary.

For more information on how you can earn a PhD in preaching, we encourage you to read more about the Doctor of Philosophy in Preaching and Pastoral Ministry program.

Video Transcript

Welcome to Trinity College of the Bible and Theological Seminary. I’m Dr. Elbert Elliott. People here call me Doctor E. Basically, I deal with pulpit communication, sometimes called expository preaching.

We believe that preaching includes all of the categories that fall under pulpit communication. What we do in Pulpit communication is to help equip people as they go out into ministry to do the thing that they’re called to do which is most important and that’s the proclaim the gospel or to proclaim God’s word, because we believe in biblical preaching. Biblical preaching is the heart of the church. If there is not biblical preaching, the church suffers. That has been proven in history, and it is being proven today.

There are some very good some very good pupliteers out in the world and they’re very some very good preachers, biblical preachers, in the world. There are also a lot of preachers that think they’re preachers but they do not have a Biblical base.

If you come to Trinity, what we will try to do is to teach you to take the scripture and use good hermeneutical principles and to be to be able to interpret scripture accurately and then making an application to the world in which you live, so that the so that the word of God speaks to this culture and attempts to correct the culture and bring it back to what would be the roots of the Christian faith, basically how this country was established and formed.

We have a great variety of preaching courses. For example, we have of course that’s called Contemporary Preaching or Preaching to a Multimedia Generation. We have a course called preaching from the New Testament. We have one, preaching from the Old Testament. We have a course The Hermeneutical Basis of Preaching. We have one, The Theological Basis of Preaching. We have all kinds of courses related to preaching.

I approach preaching from the standpoint of being biblical but also from the standpoint of communication, because I did two degrees in one of the major universities in the country that was one of the premier universities in communication. So we will look at this very seriously. We also used very excellent text books that are very practical. We believe that everything should have some academic integrity but that it should be doable by students.

Basically, as I look, I would give you this as a quick summation. In the courses that we teach, basically I would say that every message, no matter whether it’s an idea that you you come up with or it comes straight from scripture, every message needs a major point, it needs a purpose – and that’s the response you want from the hearers or that God wants – a proposition, which is the message boiled down to basically one sentence, and usually that’s a timeless truth and you can find that in every scripture passage some way. And also it will need an application from that, because no matter where you’re picking your scripture from or your passage, there needs to be application of principles that apply to today to the listeners who hear you. You desire and God desires a response from them.

This is just a little tiny summation of all that we do, but we have seen people go out from the school and become excellent expositors of God’s work. So thank you now for listening to this little small small segment of what we do here. Thank you.

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Trinity is a 100% online bible college and online seminary.

Many Christian colleges and seminaries have developed online programs, but most still require their students to come to campus at some point.  Some require final exams to be taken on campus.  Some require participation in a compressed, one-week class at least once a year.

Students who participate in these “mostly online” programs incur extra travel expenses.  Since many students who participate in distance learning programs have jobs and families, they are also forced to take vacation days from work and figure out how schedule these campus visits around their ministry and family responsibilities.

Students in Trinity’s online bible college and online seminary programs are able to save money, save time and eliminate the stress and hassle of campus visits.

Trinity Understands Distance Learning and Distance Learners

Trinity College of the Bible and Theological Seminary also comes from a different perspective compared to those Christian colleges and seminaries that are just now dipping their toe in the pool of distance learning.

Trinity was founded in 1969 as a distance education school. Of course, back in 1969 there was no Internet. So, when Trinity started, everything was done via postal service.

This is important because Trinity has always been geared towards adult learners who are learning at a distance.  The faculty and staff of Trinity understand distance learning and distance learners.  We understand that adult learners have busy professional lives, and can be anywhere in the world.

Because Trinity started as a distance learning school, moving into the online age has been a huge advantage for us.  While the advent of online education has forced many bible colleges and seminaries to rethink the way they educate students, for us at Trinity, it has simply sped up and enhanced the process of what we were already doing.

If you are interested in an online bible college or online seminary to advance your education, help you in your ministry, or help you grow in your understanding of and relationship with God and a 100% online degree program would be a good fit for your busy life, we hope you’ll consider Trinity College of the Bible and Theological Seminary. 

Take the next step and complete the “Request more information” form in the right sidebar of this page.

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