Deserted Island with Joel Kim: History and Leadership

5 Minutes in Church History with Stephen Nichols

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, History, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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If you could take only five books to a deserted island, which would you choose? Today, Joel Kim joins Stephen Nichols to share titles he’d bring, and what they reveal about leadership, perseverance, and history.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of Five Minutes in Church History.
0:09.5	Once again, we are recording live from Ligonier's National Conference.
0:14.5	And one of our speakers this year is a very good friend of ours at Ligonier and at Reformation
0:20.4	Bible College and an academic,
0:23.2	a seminary president, no less.
0:26.2	It was a demotion from teaching in the classroom.
0:28.4	From faculty to president, I can relate.
0:31.1	Reverend Joel Kim is here.
0:32.3	It's good to see you.
0:33.1	Thank you for having me.
0:33.9	Yeah, I'm glad to have you on this.
0:35.3	And you're a very busy man.
0:36.8	I know you travel a lot. You have a seminary you're responsible for.
0:39.3	And a lot of pressing duties.
0:41.3	So I'm going to give you a favor.
0:43.3	I'm going to let you pull away from your duties for a moment.
0:45.3	We're going to send you to a deserted island where you can just enjoy some books.
0:50.3	Now, this is an odd deserted island. It's a very theologically informed and enriched desert island.
0:58.1	It already has Calvin's Institutes.
1:00.2	It has Augustine's classic texts.
1:03.0	It has Luther's works.
1:04.7	It even has the works of Jonathan Edwards on there.
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