August 20, 2025 | Daniel L. Segraves, Ph.D.
It has been a while since Susan, my wife and videographer, caught me playing the piano and the first time she captured a shot of me playing while wearing a fedora!
She just now told me to tell you she managed to “sneak up” on the maestro.
I am thankful to God for a beautiful grand piano just a few feet from my home office and for those who taught me how to play it.
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July 31, 2024 | Daniel L. Segraves, Ph.D.
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June 12, 2024 | Daniel L. Segraves, Ph.D.
I taught this lesson on June 12, 2024 at The Sanctuary UPC in Hazelwood, Missouri, where Mitchell Bland is our pastor. One additional lesson is scheduled to follow next Wednesday night, June 19.
May 11, 2014 | Daniel L. Segraves, Ph.D.
I remember when Garth Hatheway, at that time the chairman of the board of directors at Urshan Graduate School of Theology, came into my office and talked about the possibility of Urshan becoming a university. I was a professor of biblical theology and also carried administrative responsibilities.
A university? It seemed a dream that the time could ever come that UGST would acquire Gateway College of Evangelism with the result being a fully accredited university offering undergraduate and graduate level education on a beautiful and modern campus in Wentzville, Missouri.
But God-given dreams have a way of being fulfilled! At last night’s commencement, with 121 undergraduate degrees conferred in addition to 20 graduate degrees, we learned that the Urshan System has now been granted university status.
The university is regionally accredited by the Higher Learning Commission to offer both undergraduate and graduate degrees, including the new Doctor of Ministry degree, available for the first time this Fall.
UGST has been an accredited member of the Association of Theological Schools (ATS) since 2010. It has received reaffirmation of accreditation that extends until March 31, 2033. ATS has a membership of over 270 graduate schools of theology in the United States and Canada. The mission of ATS is to promote the improvement and enhancement of theological schools to benefit communities of faith and the broader public.
You can check out the websites of both schools at http://www.urshancollege.org and http://www.ugst.edu.
To view the 2024 Commencement, click on this link:
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February 15-16, 2024
David Johnson, M.T.S., Ph.D., Hebrew Union College (in progress) has invited me to present a paper at the upcoming Urshan Symposium of Apostolic Pentecostal Scholars, scheduled for February 15-16, 2024 on the campus of Urshan College and Urshan Graduate School of Theology located at 155 Urshan Way, Wentzville, Missouri 63385. David Johnson is the academic dean at U.G.S.T. For more information, see https://ugst.edu/events/ugst-symposium.
I am happy to accept this invitation. Some of you may know that my ability to travel and speak, and even to do much teaching at our home church, The Sanctuary UPC in Hazelwood, Missouri, has been limited for about two years due to health challenges. But I am so thankful to God and for all who have prayed for me that my health has improved dramatically, enabling me to be more active during the past three months. I was able to teach the adult Bible class each Sunday during August. My topic was “First Century Jewish Christology.” The videos of each of the four lessons and the 120 slides I prepared to accompany the lessons are posted here on my blog.
The tentative title for the paper I will present at the symposium is “Aramaic and LXX Influences on the Messianic Psalms.” The paper will reflect the work I have been doing for volume two of my commentary on the Psalter.
Shortly before His ascent, Jesus said to His disciples, “These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me” (Luke 24:44). With these words, Jesus “opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures” (Luke 24:45).
One of my prayers is that God would help me to comprehend how the Scriptures testify of Jesus. I hope you can join us at the symposium. I look forward to sharing some of the insights I believe Scripture offers us about the Messiah from the Aramaic Targums and the Greek Septuagint.
Lecture 3 | August 20, 2023 | Daniel L. Segraves
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Daniel and Susan Segraves
Near Father’s Day 2021, I was diagnosed with a disease heard of by few people … smoldering myeloma.
My primary care physician had noted something of concern in my annual bloodwork, and she recommended that I see a hematologist at least some time within the next four months. It was my understanding that it can be difficult to get an appointment with a doctor with the necessary skills. The Lord opened the door for me quickly; I had an appointment the next day.
My diagnosis called for a two-year plan of treatment. Over this time, I experienced a significant change in lifestyle, limiting travel, physical movement, and speaking engagements.
Today, on May 23, 2023, at 1 p.m., I met with my hematologist and received the good news that my bloodwork is normal and that I can discontinue the medications. I will not need to see this specialist until August 23 of this year for a follow-up examination. In the meantime, I can travel and teach. In other words, God has enabled me to resume a life of health that I can live for His glory.
I have experienced the healing hand of our Lord!
It seems significant to me now that when Tim Gaddy, the district superintendent of the Arkansas District of the United Pentecostal Church International invited me to speak at the Arkansas District Camp Meeting in July of this year, he asked me to teach on the subjects of the Gifts of the Spirit and Signs and Wonders. He made this request before he was aware of my diagnosis.
I hope to see some of you at this camp meeting. As I frequently mention when I am in Arkansas, my spiritual roots run deep in this state. It is where I was baptized with the Holy Spirit as a young boy during the 1950s. This was in Rector, where my father, Glen Segraves, served as pastor from 1953 to 1959.
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The Sanctuary UPC, located in Hazelwood, Missouri, uses the Sunday school curriculum published by the United Pentecostal Church International. Mitchell Bland is the pastor of this church, and each Sunday morning all classes study the same Bible lesson so that the entire family can be involved with the same text of Scripture each week.
On the adult level, the teachers rotate from week to week. On September 18, 2022, I taught the lesson on The Ten Commandments. I chose to focus on the prophetic significance of the fourth commandment, the Sabbath.
Yesterday Susan and I celebrated our ninth wedding anniversary. On June 13, 2013, God answered my prayer and informed me that Susan Fuller was the person I could invite to go with me to the Ambassadors of Harmony concert who would accept my invitation and enjoy the event. The concert was scheduled for Saturday evening, June 15, 2013.
Not only did we both enjoy the music, but when I asked her nine days later, “Will you marry me,” she answered, “Yes, I will!” One of our friends who was also at the concert, P. D. Buford, predicted we would marry before the General Conference of the United Pentecostal Church International that Fall.
He was right!
Our story has been published in the Pentecostal Herald, now known as Pentecostal Life, in a book by Norma Clanton titled Letters from Friends, which consists of stories of the loss of spouses and later expanded with an introduction by Scott Graham as A Light in Darkness: Stories of Grief and Loss. This edition of the book includes accounts not only of the loss of spouses but also parents and children.
The story of our marriage has also been published in the St. Louis Post Dispatch. Therefore, I will not tell it again here.
In celebration, we spent the evening at the Seven Gables Inn, located in Clayton, Missouri, a historic hotel built in 1926 and restored in 2020.
Today is the first day of our tenth year of marriage, and on October 3 we will be on our way to our next general conference!
Susan struggles a bit to get the ring on Daniel’s finger!
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