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Review: What is an Evangelical

A short and accessible history of “evangelicalism.”

October 21, 2019Filed under Theology#book reviews#evangelicalism#historyMarkdown source

Christology: God With Us and For Us

Audio and notes from an adult Sunday School class I’m teaching at our church!

August 11, 2019 (updated September 01, 2019)Filed under Theology#christology#church#podcasting#teachingMarkdown source

Review: Retrieving Eternal Generation

Most anthologies of essays are hit and miss. This one… isn’t.

July 16, 2019Filed under Theology#book reviews#christologyMarkdown source

Review: All That’s Good

Hannah Anderson’s book on discernment is not perfect, but it is very good.

July 16, 2019Filed under Theology#book reviews#discernmentMarkdown source

Heresies

Or, hope for the church even when she stumbles.

April 22, 2019Filed under Theology#heresy#patristics#tweetstormsMarkdown source

Social Media, Remote Work, and Vocation

A meditation on embodiment and calling—inspired by seeing many friends at EmberConf.

March 23, 2019Filed under Theology#embodiment#remote work#social media#vocationMarkdown source

A Christmas Homily

A little meditation on Advent.

December 25, 2018Filed under Theology#advent#christologyMarkdown source

Dealing With Burnout In Public

Because if I'm going to go through this, it might as well be a help to others.

August 20, 2018Filed under Theology#burnout#depression#writingMarkdown source

Imprecatory Psalms and Comfort for Weary Souls

They do more (though not less) than teach us about God's judgment.

August 08, 2018Filed under Theology#burnout#prayer#psalmsMarkdown source

How Do Virtue Ethics Arise From Metaphysics?

Continuing to think about Shannon Vallor's Technology and the Virtues.

July 14, 2018Filed under Theology#buddhism#christianity#confucianism#shannon vallor#virtue ethicsMarkdown source

“Life Hacks” Are Dumb

What if we sought wisdom instead?

May 30, 2018Filed under Theology#culture#life hacks#wisdomMarkdown source

“Cultural Marxism” and “Evangelicalism”

May 10, 2018Filed under Theology#culture#evangelicalismMarkdown source
March 19, 2018Filed under Theology#quotesMarkdown source

An example of handling “the liberal order” correctly:

The modern liberal order abets technology’s formative power to the degree that it disavows any strong claims about ethics and human flourishing. It is in the space of that disavowal that technology as an implicit anthropology and an implicit politics takes root and expands, framing and conditioning any subsequent efforts to subject it to ethical critique. Our understanding of the human is already conditioned by our technological milieu. Fundamental to this tacit anthropology, or account of the human, is the infinite malleability of human nature. Malleable humanity is a precondition to the unfettered expansion of technology. (This is why transhumanism is the proper eschatology of our technological order. Ultimately, humanity must adapt and conform, even if it means the loss of humanity as we have known it. As explicit ideology, this may still seem like a fringe position; as implicit practice, however, it is widely adopted.)

—L. M. Sacasas, “Why We Can't Have Humane Technology”

Prayer Apps and Evaluating Technology

Thinking about the ways technology shapes us—smartphones, fire, and everything in between.

January 26, 2018Filed under Theology#ethics#writingMarkdown source

On Public (Theological) Histories

Personal blogging, “permanency” online, and the importance of curation (editing).

May 07, 2017Filed under Theology#writingMarkdown source

Theological Anthropology

Alan Jacobs’ current project, “faithful extension”, and an important project for our day.

May 06, 2017Filed under Theology#alan jacobs#algorithism#christology#ressourcement#technologyMarkdown source

Odd Bits and the Occasional Long-Form Essay

Some thoughts on my theology blogging in 2017.

April 02, 2017Filed under theology#writingMarkdown source
January 16, 2017Filed under Theology#prayer#quotesMarkdown source
Almighty God,
in Christ you make all things new:
transform the poverty of our nature by the riches of your grace,
and in the renewal of our lives
make known your heavenly glory;
through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
Amen.

—Morning Prayer from the Common Worship of the Church of England

January 03, 2017Filed under Theology#prayer#quotesMarkdown source

The prayers of the Church are a gift.

Almighty God,
who wonderfully created us in your own image
and yet more wonderfully restored us
through your Son Jesus Christ:
grant that, as he came to share in our humanity,
so we may share the life of his divinity;
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
Amen.

—Morning Prayer from the Common Worship of the Church of England

November 20, 2016Filed under theology#quotesMarkdown source

If you’re waiting to get out of trouble to praise God, you will never praise God.

—Tony Merida, sermon on November 20, 2016

Constant Evaluation

Or, John Frame as an example of how we ought to read carefully.

September 13, 2016Filed under Theology#classwork#m.div.#reading#sebtsMarkdown source

A Simple Children's Catechism

Aiming for deep answers that are easy to remember and to say.

June 21, 2016Filed under Theology#familyMarkdown source

Irreducible Complexity and Design Discourse

Inductive and deductive arguments are not the only ways to form rational, well-warranted beliefs.

May 17, 2016Filed under theology#m. div.#philosophy#science#sebtsMarkdown source

Fine Tuning

The physical constants of the universe give us good reason to think God exists.

May 17, 2016Filed under theology#m. div.#philosophy#science#sebtsMarkdown source

Classical Mechanics Doesn't Exclude Miracles

Against an argument which isn't even coherent, much less a defeater.

May 17, 2016Filed under theology#m. div.#philosophy#science#sebtsMarkdown source

Realism and Antirealism

A key debate in the philosophy of science (with interesting implications for young-earth creationism).

May 16, 2016 (updated June 06, 2016)Filed under Theology#m. div.#papers#philosophy#science#sebtsMarkdown sourceBibliography

Full-On Question-Begging

Physicalism is not and cannot be a consequence of science.

May 12, 2016Filed under theology#m. div.#philosophy#science#sebtsMarkdown source

Empirical Equivalence, Real Semantic Difference

Even when two claims yield the same prediction, their truth content matters.

May 12, 2016Filed under theology#m. div.#philosophy#science#sebtsMarkdown source

Realism, Generality, and Precision—In Tension?

Biology and physics are different in more ways than one.

May 12, 2016Filed under theology#m. div.#philosophy#science#sebtsMarkdown source

Aristotle, Newton, and Progress

The limits of Aristotelian science (and why Kuhn might be exaggerating a bit).

May 12, 2016Filed under theology#m. div.#philosophy#science#sebtsMarkdown source

Statistical Regularities and Explanation

Exactness, explanatory power, causality, and meaning in science.

May 12, 2016Filed under theology#m. div.#philosophy#science#sebtsMarkdown source

Counterfactuals and Supervenience

Different sciences, different methodologies, different "laws."

May 12, 2016Filed under theology#m. div.#philosophy#science#sebtsMarkdown source

Science and Pseudo-Science

The demarcation problem, fuzzy lines, and mild discomfort.

May 12, 2016Filed under theology#m. div.#philosophy#science#sebtsMarkdown source

Corpuscularianism and Atomism

How science and philosophy seek to answer questions.

May 12, 2016Filed under theology#m. div.#philosophy#science#sebtsMarkdown source

Don't Be a Brand

Social media, public ministry, and the lure of constant self-promotion

April 26, 2016Filed under theologyMarkdown source

God is With Us

A sermon on John 14:15–31

April 12, 2016Filed under theology#m. div.#sebts#sermonsMarkdown source

Why We Gather

April 03, 2016Filed under theology#church#familyMarkdown source

The Titles Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as Denoting Being, Not Activity

The Relationship Between the Economic and Immanent Trinity

March 26, 2016Filed under Theology#m. div.#papers#sebtsMarkdown sourceBibliography

Realism and Anti-Realism in Science

Do unobservables actually exist? (A riddle. Let the reader understand.)

March 15, 2016Filed under theology#m. div.#philosophy#science#sebtsMarkdown source

The 'Covering Law' Model

Why it is defective, and what a good alternative might be.

March 15, 2016Filed under theology#m. div.#philosophy#science#sebtsMarkdown source

The Problem of Induction

Two proposed solutions (in very brief).

March 15, 2016Filed under theology#m. div.#philosophy#science#sebtsMarkdown source

A Strange and Messy Deliverance

A sermon on Judges 3:7–31

March 08, 2016Filed under Theology#m. div.#sebts#sermonsMarkdown source
March 06, 2016Filed under Theology#quotesMarkdown source

No one is ‘not worthy’ of our service in the body of Christ.

—Tony Merida, sermon at Imago Dei Church on March 6, 2016

A Humble, Selfless, Unity

A sermon on Philippians 2:1–11

February 09, 2016Filed under Theology#m. div.#sebts#sermonsMarkdown source

Power and Mercy

December 09, 2015Filed under theology#m. div.#sebts#sermonsMarkdown source

An Apology and a Hermeneutic

A Review of Jesus and the Victory of God

December 01, 2015Filed under Theology#book reviews#m. div.#papers#sebtsMarkdown source
September 27, 2015Filed under Theology#quotesMarkdown source

N. T. Wright makes it painfully clear that it’s difficult (if not impossible) to understand Jesus fully and rightly without having a deep knowledge of the Old Testament:

Equally impressive are the strong hints, throughout the gospels, that Jesus was modelling his ministry not on one figure alone, but on a range of prophets from the Old Testament. Particularly striking is his evocation of the great lonely figure Micaiah ben Imlach (1 Kings 22), who, when asked about the coming battle, predicted the death of Ahab, king of Israel, by saying, ‘I saw all Israel scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that have no sheperd.’ Jesus, looking at the crowds, takes pity on them, because that is what they remind him of: leaderless sheep. Like Ezekiel, Jesus predicts that the temple will be abandoned by the Shekinah, left unprotected to its fate. Like Jeremiah, Jesus constantly runs the risk of being called a traitor to Israel’s national apsirations, while claiming all the time that he nevertheless is the true spokesman for the covenant god. This, as we shall see, lies behind a good part of the story of Jesus’ action in the Temple, and his subsequence ‘trial’: Jesus has predicted the destruction of the Temple and is on trial not least as a false prophet. Jesus replies to earlier critics and questioners with the sign of the prophet Jonah. Jonah was predicting immenent judgment on Nineveh, following his adventure with the fish; Jesus is predicting imminent judgment on Israel, and a similar sign will validate his message too. He is constantly redefining what the coming day will mean for Israel, warning her, like Amos, that it will be a day of darkness, not of light. Like Amos, too, he implies that the people of god are to be judged as the climax of the divine judgment upon all nations. The judgment which he announces upon Israel is sketched with the help of prophetic passages relating to the judgment of Jerusalem by Babylon, and also, more terrifyingly, passages which speak of the divine judgment upon Babylon itself.

Above all, Jesus adopts the style of, and consciously seems to imitate, Elijah. Here we are again in an interesting position vis-à-vis the sources. It is clear from all three synoptics that they, and presumably with them the early church as a whole, regard John the Baptist as in some sense Elijah redivivus. They nevertheless portray Jesus as acting in Elijah-like ways, and show that the disciples were thinking of Elijah-typology as giving them a blueprint for his, and their own, activity. Jesus himself, explaining the nature of his work, is portrayed using both Elijah and Elisha as models. Again, it is highly unlikely that the early church, seeing Jesus as the Messiah and hence John as Elija, created this identification out of nothing. However, at the same time, though John himself seems to have thought that Jesus was to be the new Elijah, Jesus actually returned the compliment. We begin here to see both parallel and distinction. Jesus’ ministry is so like that of Elijah that they can be easily confused. He too is announcing to the faithless people of YHWH that their covenant god will come to them in wrath. But at the same time he is also acting out a different message, one of celebration and inauguration, which bursts the mould of the Elijah-model.

From all of this it should be clear that Jesus regarded his ministry as in continuity with, and bringing to a climax, the work of the great prophets of the Old Testament, culminating in John the Baptist, whose initiative he had used as his launching-pad.

—N. T. Wright, Jesus and the Victory of God

September 26, 2015Filed under theology#quotesMarkdown source

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The pro me of the gospel does not further an autonomous individualism. It brings it to an end.

—Mark A. Seifrid, The Second Letter to the Corinthians

September 16, 2015Filed under Theology#quotesMarkdown source

It would be pleasant if, for once, the historians and the theologians could set the agenda for the philosophers, instead of vice versa.

—N. T. Wright, Jesus and the Victory of God, 1996, p. 8.

Spirit Empowered Preaching

September 08, 2015Filed under Theology#book reviews#m. div.#papers#sebtsMarkdown source
September 01, 2015Filed under Theology#quotesMarkdown source

This is one of the single most beautiful sentences in the Bible, and it is incredible in the original:

τὸν μὴ γνόντα ἁμαρτίαν ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν ἁμαρτίαν ἐποίησεν, ἵνα ἡμεῖς γενώμεθα δικαιοσύνη θεοῦ ἐν αὐτῷ.

That is:

He made the one who knew no sin to be sin for us—so that we might become God’s righteousness in him.

—2 Corinthians 5:21 (SBLGNT and my translation)

August 20, 2015Filed under theology#quotesMarkdown source

You don’t just use illustrations in preaching; you illustrate something. You don’t just offer applications in preaching; you apply something. That something is the word of God, rightly applied.

—Jim Shaddix, lecture, August 19, 2015

Not Exactly a Millennium

Reading Revelation 20 in its Context

July 22, 2015Filed under theology#m. div.#papers#sebtsMarkdown source

Tweets on Psych Medication

Or: That time I went to town on Peter Leithart about psych medications.

July 22, 2015Filed under theology#tweetstormMarkdown source

The Mystery of the Table

Thoughts on the Theology and Practice of the Lord's Supper

July 11, 2015Filed under Theology#m. div.#papers#sebtsMarkdown source
June 23, 2015Filed under theology#quotesMarkdown source

Holy Scripture is more than a watchword. It is also more than ‘light for today.’ It is God’s revealed Word for all men, for all times.

—Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together, p. 50.

Future Hope, Resurrection Bodies, and a Coming Kingdom

Evaluating the nature of hope in Life Everlasting

June 13, 2015Filed under Theology#m. div.#sebtsMarkdown source

Strong-Group Cultures are Broken, Too

Thoughts on When the Church Was a Family

May 28, 2015Filed under Theology#m. div.#sebtsMarkdown source
May 02, 2015Filed under Theology#quotesMarkdown source

Poetry, as I have been arguing throughout this study, is not just a set of techniques for saying impressively what could he said otherwise. Rather, it is a particular way of imagining the world—particular in the double sense that poetry as such has its own logic, its own ways of making connections and engendering implications, and because each system of poetry has certain distinctive semantic thrusts that follow the momentum of its formal dispositions and habits of expression.

—Robert Alter, The Art of Biblical Poetry, p. 151.

May 02, 2015Filed under Theology#quotesMarkdown source

What I would like to suggest about the effect of the language of poetry in this [Isa. 1:2–9] and most other Biblical prophecies is that it tends to lift the utterances to a second power of signification, aligning statements that are addressed to a concrete historical situation with an archetypal horizon. The Judean contemporaries of Isaiah the son of Amoz become the archetypes Sodom and Gomorrah in respect to both their collective destiny and their moral character. If one considers, as the metaphors of the poem require one to consider, how God has treated them as beloved sons, then their exploitation of the poor and the helpless in their midst (1:23 and elsewhere), in flagrant violation of God’s commands, becomes a paradigmatic instance of treachery, of man’s… capacity for self-destructive perverseness. In this fashion, a set of messages framed for a particular audience of the eighth century B.C.E. Is not just the transcription of a historical document but continues to speak age after age, inviting members of otherwise very different audiences to read themselves into the text.

—Robert Alter, The Art of Biblical Poetry, p. 146.

Why Should a Man Complain?

Syntax, Poetry, and Meaning in Lamentations 3:40–66

April 27, 2015Filed under theology#m. div.#papers#sebtsMarkdown source

An Uncomfortable Fit

A Complex, Post-Denominational Ecclesiastical Identity

April 25, 2015Filed under theology#m. div.#papers#sebtsMarkdown source
April 20, 2015Filed under Theology#quotesMarkdown source

No matter that Deuteronomy had envisioned it and the prophets had foretold it; nothing could prepare one for the ruel reality and the apparently finality of the situation. The burden of Lamentations is not to question why this happened, but to give expression to the fact that it did. At certain moments the book seems to look beyond the destruction, to hold out hope for the future, but in the end despair overcomes hope. Past and future have little place in the book. It centers on the “present”—the moment of trauma, the interminable suffering. The book is not an explanation of suffering but a re-creation of it and a commemoration of it.

Why immortalize this moment of destruction? Because in its own way it signals the truth of the Bible’s theology, and it points to the continuation of the covenant between God and Israel….

This explains why the poet can cry out to God and expect a response, why can vent his anger at God, why he can declare that God continues to exist even though his temple does not (Lam 5:18–19), why God is portrayed as so strong and the enemy gets no credit for the destruction. The suffering is, as it were, an affirmation that God is still there and still concerned with the fate of Israel. He may hide his face, but he has not ceased to be Israel’s God. Lamentations contains the seeds of comfort and religious rebuilding that the exilic prophets (especially Second Isaiah) developed more fully in the aftermath of the destruction.

—Adele Berlin, Lamentations: A Commentary, 18–19.

April 18, 2015Filed under Theology#quotesMarkdown source

… Lamentations more than anything is about formation: discovering what it means to be human in a world where things often times seems [sic] upside down. Lamentations squares off with this reality and responds with artistry and humanity before God.

—Heath A. Thomas, Poetry and Theology in the Book of Lamentations, p. xi.

Repent and Be Baptized

The Theology and Practice of Baptism

March 28, 2015Filed under Theology#m. div.#papers#sebtsMarkdown source

“Optimal Equivalence”

A Few Thoughts on the Holman Christian Standard Bible

February 28, 2015 (updated March 16, 2015)Filed under theologyMarkdown source

Startlement

The most astounding truth: God became a man.

December 29, 2014Filed under theologyMarkdown source
December 25, 2014Filed under theology#quotesMarkdown source

For as when a figure painted on wood has been soiled by dirt from outside, it is necessary for him whose figure it is to come again, so that the image can be renewed on the same material—because of his portrait even the material on which it is painted is not cast aside, but the portrait is reinscribed on it. In the same way the all-holy Son of the Father, being the Image of the Father, came to our place to renew the human being made according to himself, and to find him, as one lost, through the forgiveness, as himself says in the Gospels, “I came to seek and save the lost” (Lk 19.10)…. So, rightly wishing to help human beings, he sojourned as a human being, taking to himself a body like theirs and from below—I mean through the works of the body—that those not wishing to know him from his providence and governance of the universe, from the works done through the body might know the Word of God in the body, and through him the Father….

Now then, if they ask why he did not appear through other more noble parts of creation, or use some nobler instrument, as the sun or moon or stars or fire or air, but merely a human being, let them know that the Lord came not to be put on display but to heal and to teach those who were suffering. One being put on display only needs to appear and dazzle the beholders; but one who heals and teaches does not simply sojourn, but is of service to those in need and appears as those who need him can bear, lest by exceeding the need of those who suffer he trouble the very ones in need and the manifestation of the divine be of no benefit to them….

Properly, therefore, the Word of God took a body and used a human instrument, in order to give life to the body and in order that, just as he is known in creation by his works, so also he might act in a human being, and show himself everywhere, leaving nothing barren of his divinity and knowledge. Again, I repeat, resuming what we said before, that the Savior did this in order that as he fills everything everywhere by his presence, so also he might fill all things with the knowledge of himself, as the divine scriptures say, ‘The whole earth was filled with the knowledge of God’ (Isa 11.9).

—St. Athanasius, On The Incarnation, 14, 43, 45.

Be Holy!

A Review of An Infinite Journey

December 10, 2014Filed under Theology#book reviews#fbc durham#m. div.#papers#sebtsMarkdown source
December 02, 2014Filed under Theology#quotesMarkdown source

A faithful worship leader magnifies the greatness of God in Jesus Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit by skillfully combining God’s Word with music, thereby motivating the gathered church to proclaim the gospel, to cherish God’s presence, and to live for God’s glory.

—Bob Kauflin, Worship Matters, p. 55.

You Need a Plan

December 02, 2014Filed under theologyMarkdown source
November 04, 2014Filed under Theology#quotesMarkdown source

Doctrine is not merely an affair of the tongue, but of the life; is not apprehended by the intellect and memory merely, like other branches of learning; but is received only when it possesses the whole soul, and finds its seat and habitation in the inmost recesses of the heart…. To doctrine in which our religion is contained we have given the first place, since by it our salvation commences; but it must be transfused into the breast, and pass into the conduct, and so transform us into itself, as not to prove unfruitful.

—John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, III:6.4.

The Genesis Debate

A Plea for Sanity

August 18, 2014Filed under theologyMarkdown source

Patriotism and the Church

Or: Why A Fourth of July Service is a Bad Plan

July 04, 2014Filed under theologyMarkdown source

A Just and Merciful God

June 30, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

The "New" Covenant

May 11, 2014Filed under theology#m. div.#sebtsMarkdown source

The Uniqueness of the Incarnation

May 06, 2014Filed under theology#m. div.#papers#sebtsMarkdown source

Communicatio Idiomatum

May 03, 2014Filed under theology#m. div.#sebtsMarkdown source

Perfectionism

An Imperfect Doctrine Of Sanctification

May 03, 2014Filed under theology#m. div.#sebtsMarkdown source

The Divinity of Jesus

May 03, 2014Filed under theology#m. div.#sebtsMarkdown source

The Nature of Justification (redux)

May 03, 2014Filed under theology#m. div.#sebtsMarkdown source

The Spirit's Work in Conversion (redux)

May 03, 2014Filed under theology#m. div.#sebtsMarkdown source

Further Upward and Further In

April 29, 2014Filed under Theology#m. div.#sebtsMarkdown source

We Are Not Alone

April 23, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

Right Standing Before God

April 22, 2014Filed under Theology#m. div.#sebtsMarkdown source

More Than We Could Have Hoped

April 17, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

Halfway to His Own Thesis

A Review of Five Smooth Stones for Pastoral Work

April 12, 2014Filed under Theology#book reviews#m. div.#sebtsMarkdown source

The Spirit and Christian Formation

April 09, 2014Filed under Theology#m. div.#sebtsMarkdown source

Bind It On Your Forehead

April 07, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

Theology is Essential

We’re all theologians—including the seven-year-olds.

April 06, 2014Filed under theologyMarkdown source

The Spirit and Conversion

April 03, 2014Filed under Theology#m. div.#sebtsMarkdown source

When My Great-(×80)-Grandparents Lived

April 03, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

Suffering in the Lives of the Saints

April 02, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

A Repeated Call to Humility

Proverbs 1 and the Need for Wisdom

April 01, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

No Resurrection, No Dice

March 31, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

Submitting to Scripture

March 28, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source
March 28, 2014Filed under Theology#quotesMarkdown source

The short story is the pastoral form for narrating Heilsgeschichte (salvation history) in the vocabulary of Seelsgeschichte (soul history). In the Heilsgeschichte of Judges, for instance, the enmity of the Midianiites is kerygmatically integrated into the historical narrative and shown to be a part of salvation; in the Seelsgeschichte of Ruth the bitter emptiness of Naomi is pastorally attended to under the dynamics of providence and guided to a concluding fullness. In the Heilsgeschichte of Exodus the formidable and unyielding Egyptians are judged and defeated in the catastrophic plagues and miraculous sea crossing; in the Seelsgeschichte of Ruth the everday ordinariness of gleaning in the barley fields is used as a means for accomplishing redemption. In the Heilsgeschichte of Joshua the gigantically walled fortress Jericho is surrounded and conquered by the total community of God in colorful parade, accompanied by brilliantly sounding trumpets, and the promised land is entered; in the Seelsgeschichte of Ruth an old levirate law is patiently and quietly worked through by some old men at the city gates of provincial Bethlehem, and a link is forged in the genealogical chain of the Messiah.

—Eugene Peterson, Five Smooth Stones for Pastoral Work, pp. 84–85.

From Redemption to Creation

March 27, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

Miscellanies, 26 March 2013

March 26, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

Surprising Unity

March 25, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

Almost Too Good To Be Believed

March 24, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

Money Parables and Divorce and Remarriage

One of these things is not like the others.

March 19, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

Sell Your Possessions and Give to the Needy

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

March 18, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

The Resurrection is Essential

March 18, 2014Filed under theology#m. div.#sebtsMarkdown source

Luke's Hinge

March 17, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

The Atonement, Leon Morris

March 16, 2014Filed under theology#book reviewsMarkdown source

The Servant of God

Israel, Isaiah, and Jesus Christ

March 11, 2014Filed under theology#m. div.#sebtsMarkdown source

Wisdom and Folly

Two Women, Two Ways, Two Houses

March 11, 2014Filed under theology#m. div.#sebtsMarkdown source

Job—The Mourner

March 11, 2014Filed under theology#m. div.#sebtsMarkdown source

Redeemed For (As Well As From)

March 08, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

Work Hard!

(God is at work in you.)

March 07, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

Salvation is Beautiful

March 05, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

What He Did Not Assume

March 05, 2014Filed under theology#m. div.#sebtsMarkdown source

Adam's Sin and Our Death

March 05, 2014Filed under theology#m. div.#sebtsMarkdown source

The Name of Sin

March 05, 2014Filed under theology#m. div.#sebtsMarkdown source

In the Day That You Eat of It

March 05, 2014Filed under theology#m. div.#sebtsMarkdown source

Call and Response

Psalm 53 and Romans 1–3 in Counterpoint

March 04, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

Wisdom From God

March 03, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

A Broken and Contrite Heart

Psalm 51 as God's self-revelation.

February 27, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

Joyfully Humbling

February 26, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

Wisdom Literature and Death

February 25, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

Sufficiency and Efficacy

February 25, 2014Filed under theology#m. div.#sebtsMarkdown source

The City of God

February 24, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

A Mighty Change

February 19, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

A Commentary on the Rest of the Bible

February 18, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

The Greater Messiah

February 17, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

Martyr-Saints

February 14, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

The Question and Its Answer

February 13, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

The God Who Is Near

February 12, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

“God is Love”

February 11, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

Like His Brothers in Every Way

February 11, 2014Filed under theology#m. div.#sebtsMarkdown source

Joy Comes… After Pleading

February 10, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

With Confidence

February 08, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

Imperatives and Indicatives

February 07, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

The Wicked Perish

February 06, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

Big Enough for Mystery

February 05, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

The Mother of God

February 04, 2014Filed under theology#m. div.#sebtsMarkdown source

Resolved to Pray

February 04, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

The Horror of Sin

February 03, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

Vanity! Vanity!

February 02, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

Infant Guilt—Purest Speculation

February 01, 2014Filed under theology#m. div.#sebtsMarkdown source

Not Simple

January 31, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

Basic Human Folly

January 30, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

You Must Be Perfect

January 29, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

The New Testament Needs the Old (and So Do You)

January 28, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

Ordinary Means: The Silence of God

January 27, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

Nehemiah's Exhortation

January 25, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

What Was Their Sin?

January 25, 2014Filed under theology#m. div.#sebtsMarkdown source

From Creation to Consummation

A Meditation on Psalm 24

January 24, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

Foreign Wives and Real Devotion

January 23, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

Justice and Mercy in the Same Stroke

January 22, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

Generation by Generation

January 21, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

Ending Badly

January 20, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

Invest!—Memorizing Scripture

January 19, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

The Life and Death of Words

January 18, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

Every King Broken

January 17, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

Who Can Dwell With God?

January 15, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

Practical Wisdom

January 14, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

When God Built David a House

January 13, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

Scriptural Miscellanies

January 12, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

Prayer of Thanksgiving

January 12, 2014Filed under theology#prayersMarkdown source

Saul and David/Righteousness and Folly

January 11, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

Grappling With Genealogies

January 10, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

A Temple for God

January 09, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

Out of the Mouths of Poets

January 08, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

A Study in Contrasts: 2 Kings 16–20

January 07, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

Five Things Proverbs 6 Teaches

January 06, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

The Folly of Sin

January 05, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

Elijah and Elisha

January 04, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

Finding God in Proverbs

January 03, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

Kings in Contrast

January 02, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source

A New Year of Devotions

January 01, 2014Filed under theology#devotionsMarkdown source