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September 2017

September 22, 2017

What We Know about Arius and His Heresy

The Trinity is a mystery to us in many ways, but Scripture and tradition give...

September 07, 2017

Two Tools that Make My PhD Life Easier

When you're a PhD student, just about anything helps.

September 05, 2017

The Sermon on the Mount and Jesus’s Command to “Be Perfect”

What does it mean to "be perfect," especially in light of the fact that we...

August 2017

August 28, 2017

Why Did the Book of Revelation Outlast Other Early Christian Apocalypses?

Revelation's theology stood out from the crowd in a time when sloppy language about God...

August 23, 2017

Blood Moons, Babylonian Whores, and Reading Revelation Rightly

Fearful chart-making and number-decoding distorts the point of the Book of Revelation.

August 14, 2017

Jesus, Jonah, and Doubting God

If we’re like Jonah, we’ll confess God’s sovereignty without trusting in it. But if we’re...

August 10, 2017

Writing Is a Terrible God

As with any work in a fallen world, it makes you sweat.

August 07, 2017

The Best Introductions to the Book of Revelation

For anyone hasn't read much on Revelation, I usually recommend four short and (relatively) accessible...

August 04, 2017

The Smorgasbord (8/4/17)

A mishmash of thoughts, scraps, and interesting stuff.

August 02, 2017

Should Pastors Read Widely? A Plea for Caution

They say that reading widely is a way for the pastor to grow into a...

July 2017

July 31, 2017

What Is the “Abomination of Desolation”?

This passage gets some of the end-times chart junkies’ wheels spinning.

July 27, 2017

James D. G. Dunn: Friend or Foe?

I try to avoid the word "heretic" as much as possible.

July 24, 2017

From Selling Drugs to Selling Bibles

Even after professing Christ, drugs were more a part of my life than he was.

July 21, 2017

The Smorgasbord (7/21/17)

A mishmash of thoughts, scraps, and interesting stuff.

July 19, 2017

This Ain’t Your Mama’s Book of Revelation

In my experience, Revelation has been underplayed, under-appreciated, and simply misrepresented.

July 17, 2017

The 9 Irrefutable Laws of Followship

How the nine attributes that make up the fruit of the Spirit make us holy.

July 13, 2017

How Jesus Unlocks the Old Testament

We want to show that the NT consistently points to Jesus as the central interpretive...

July 11, 2017

The Smorgasbord (7/10/17)

A mishmash of thoughts, scraps, and interesting stuff.

July 10, 2017

Keys to Understanding Jesus’s Life and Ministry

To understand the most crucial aspects of Jesus’s life and ministry, we have to understand...

July 07, 2017

How to Win a Debate with a Skeptic

A few words of encouragement to apologists -- which ultimately includes all of us.

July 06, 2017

The Smorgasbord (7/6/17)

A mishmash of thoughts, scraps, and interesting stuff.

July 05, 2017

Accountability Is for Losers

If we believe that iron sharpens iron, then we believe that we need each other.

July 01, 2017

Farewell, Social Media

I've finally decided to take Jesus's caution seriously, and cut out my own social media...

June 2017

June 23, 2017

Baptists, Ecumenism, and the Future

Baptists can maintain our identity while also learning from others about the importance of theological...

June 10, 2017

What Kind of a Book Is Revelation?

Revelation is more than a book about divine judgment and end-times destruction -- it's a...

June 07, 2017

Eternal Generation and the Questions It Generates

Eternal generation is largely a mystery to us, it helps us biblically and theologically make...

June 01, 2017

Was Jesus Created?

Jesus is called "firstborn over all creation," but does this mean he was created?

May 2017

May 25, 2017

Baptists Promoting and Supporting Patristic Theology

This is not one evangelical denomination's problem, but I want to highlight those in my...

May 22, 2017

The Dearth of Patristic Theology in Evangelicalism

Some evangelicals act as though church history started with the Reformation.

May 16, 2017

Who Is the Holy Spirit?

The Holy Spirit is perhaps the most overlooked person of the Trinity in many Christian...

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