TIL 299: Thinking Biblically about Choosing a College (feat. Todd Sorrell)
Truth in Love
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
4.8 • 631 Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
- How did this book come about?
- Key Principles in Considering a College (1 Cor. 10:31)
- How should we think about parental involvement?
- Does everyone need to go to a Christian college?
The College Choice: A Biblical Guide for Students and Parents - Todd M Sorrell
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| 0:00.0 | thinking biblically about choosing a college on this edition of truth and love i'm dale |
| 0:13.6 | johnson and you're listening to truth and love a podcast of the association of certified |
| 0:17.6 | biblical counselors where we seek to provide biblical solutions for the problems that people face. |
| 0:24.1 | Today on the podcast, I'm delighted that we have Todd Sorrell with us. He is a licensed lawyer in the state of California. He's been doing that for over 25 years. |
| 0:34.3 | He works and deals with cases at the state level, the federal level, and also handles some international arbitrations as well. |
| 0:42.3 | He received his degree from UCLA, his jurisdictional doctorate, and he also received a Master of Arts and Biblical Counseling from the Masters University. |
| 0:51.2 | Today I'm a little bit more interested in a different part of his life. |
| 0:54.4 | We've talked to Todd in the past on these issues related to legal issues because of his |
| 1:01.3 | job and his work, but he's also married, he's been married for 27 years, and he has three kids |
| 1:07.1 | in college. And Todd today, that's the thing I want to talk to you about, are your three |
| 1:11.9 | kids in college. So welcome for the podcast. We're grateful that you're here. Thanks, Dale. |
| 1:15.9 | Excited to be here. Now, what I understood is that you've written a book called The College |
| 1:21.0 | Choice, a biblical guide for students and parents. And I'm really interested in this in part because I know where I am in life. |
| 1:29.9 | I have six kiddos. I have one who's a 16 year old. My wife and I have been recently discussing |
| 1:35.7 | this very issue. How in the world are we going to think about letting this kid go off to college |
| 1:40.6 | at some point? And if we do come to terms with that on a personal level as parents |
| 1:45.8 | knowing that it's the best thing that he get grown and gone out of the house at some point, |
| 1:51.0 | man, how do we come to the conclusion or how do we help him think through biblically, |
| 1:54.8 | which directions to go, to make good decisions and wise decisions where he'll be encouraged, |
| 1:59.1 | edified, and built up for whatever the Lord |
| 2:01.2 | has for him. And so you're in that very situation with three kids now who are in college. |
| 2:06.9 | And tell me a little bit about this book and how this book came about as you guys were thinking |
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