{"id":42533,"date":"2021-12-18T12:55:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T18:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=42533"},"modified":"2021-12-18T13:16:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T19:16:46","slug":"the-end-of-an-era-a-new-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=42533","title":{"rendered":"The End of an Era: A New Beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Closing RPM Books and Ministries<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>In 2004, I launched RPM Ministries to be a portal for my speaking, writing, consulting, and counseling regarding biblical counseling and Christian living. Now, after about 18 years, the Lord is leading me to close RPM Books and Ministries.<\/p>\n<p>The bookstore is now closed. However, you can visit <em><a href=\"https:\/\/rpmministries.org\/books\/\">Books<\/a><\/em> to find links to purchase any of my books either at the publisher\u2019s site or at Amazon. At the same link (<em><a href=\"https:\/\/rpmministries.org\/books\/\">Books<\/a><\/em>), you can find free resources related to each book and booklet.<\/p>\n<p>The <em><a href=\"https:\/\/rpmministries.org\/blog\/\">Truth &amp; Love blog<\/a><\/em> is still up and you can read any of several thousand past blogs. However, other than occasional blogging, I will be ending my regular blogging ministry.<\/p>\n<p>The 100s of free resources will still be available as always, here: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/rpmministries.org\/free-resources\/\">Free Resources<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Retiring From Faith Bible Seminary<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>I was already planning to move toward semi-retirement with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faithlafayette.org\/seminary\">Faith Bible Seminary<\/a> at the end of this current academic year in July 2022. This past week I interacted with our FBS Admin Team to let them know of my plans to transition out of FBS at the end of January 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, both RPM Books and Ministries and Faith Bible Seminary are ministries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lord is leading me to close RPM Books &#038; Ministries and He is leading me to retire from Faith Bible Seminary.<br \/>\nThe post The End of an Era: A New Beginning appeared first on RPM Ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":42535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[154,4549],"class_list":["post-42533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rpm-ministries-bob-kellemen","tag-retirement","tag-retiring","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/cropped-RPM-Ministries-Logo-Square-32x32-4.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42533"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42536,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42533\/revisions\/42536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}