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2014-03-18T09:28:37-07:00

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Our Triune God & The Pastor: Adoption Conference

Last updated on: March 18, 2014 at 9:28 am By Fred Sanders

Astute theological observers should have noticed by now that there are two important things happening with regard to adoption. On the theological front, including biblical studies, systematic theology, and pastoral counseling, the doctrine of adoption is becoming more prominent and getting more attention. There are more books and articles devoted to various aspects of it, and more theologians are putting an emphasis on it. Though the idea of salvation as adoption by God is a classic part of soteriology, it... Read more

Theology

2014-03-18T09:28:38-07:00

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Sermon: The Trinity as Surprise Ending

Last updated on: March 18, 2014 at 9:28 am By Fred Sanders

Last weekend I guest preached at Del Rey Church, on the Trinity. The sermon is available online, and you can view it below or at their site (where you can also download the audio). I’m warning you, it’s 50 minutes long (pastor Matt Jones has that congregation prepped for substantial sermons!) and it’s only on one verse (2 Corinthians 13:14). But to break things up, around the 15-minute mark I sing “shave and a haircut, two bits” a cappella for the... Read more

Theology

2014-03-18T09:28:38-07:00

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God the Father’s Sons and Offspring

Last updated on: March 18, 2014 at 9:28 am By Fred Sanders

I’ve been reading about the doctrine of God the Father, a doctrine which has no handy name. Following the model of christology (the doctrine about Jesus Christ) and pneumatology (the doctrine about the Holy Spirit), we ought to call it patrology, but that word is already in use, and refers to the study of the church fathers. Though it lacks a handy technical name, though, the doctrine about the first person... Read more

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2014-03-18T09:28:39-07:00

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“I Believe in the Maker of Moderate-Sized Dry Goods”

Last updated on: March 18, 2014 at 9:28 am By Fred Sanders

Katherine Sonderegger has a fine chapter on the doctrine of creation in the book Mapping Modern Theology. I especially appreciate the fact that, charged with explaining in about 23 pages how the doctrine of creation has been treated during the entire modern period, she manages to cover the main topics, mention the standard names, sketch the obvious controversies, and yet somehow go the extra mile and say some new and interesting things she has noticed in the modern discussion. One... Read more

Theology

2014-03-18T09:28:40-07:00

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Faith and Good Works, Christ and the Spirit

Last updated on: March 18, 2014 at 9:28 am By Fred Sanders

Justification is by grace alone through faith alone. It’s a wonderful truth, established by Paul, classically recovered and emphasized by the Reformers. But as the Reformers learned in the sixteenth century, and as Protestants ought always to keep in mind when teaching this great doctrine, it is open to unhelpful mis-interpretation by those who would affirm it, and to uncharitable mis-representation by those who reject it. We ought, therefore, to teach justification through faith vigorously, but also carefully, and with... Read more

Theology

2014-03-18T09:28:40-07:00

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O Tell Us, Poet, What You Do

Last updated on: March 18, 2014 at 9:28 am By Fred Sanders

A favorite Rilke poem: O tell us, poet, what you do. –I praise. Yes, but the deadly and the monstrous phase, how do you take it, how resist? –I praise. But the anonymous, the nameless maze, how summon it, how call it, poet? –I praise. What right is yours, in all these varied ways, under a thousand masks yet true? –I praise. And why do stillnesss and the roaring blaze, both star and storm acknowledge you? –because I praise. Rainer... Read more

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2014-03-18T09:28:41-07:00

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A.T. Pierson’s Biola Connections

Last updated on: March 18, 2014 at 9:28 am By Fred Sanders

I was asked recently about the relationship between A. T. Pierson (1837 -1911) and the early years of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles. I am not aware of any direct connection –Pierson never worked at BIOLA, for example. But Pierson and Biola’s founders were the same kind of people, devoted to the same things, and active in the same extended networks. As I picked away at the question, I found a number of minor points of contact. Pierson died in... Read more

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2014-03-18T09:28:41-07:00

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Remembering the Samwise’s of the World

Last updated on: March 18, 2014 at 9:28 am By Greg Peters

As you certainly know, Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, recently died. Unfortunately, Ride died at too young an age (61) from pancreatic cancer. In the days that followed, there was news coverage of her passing and obituaries extolling her intellectual chops, her founding in 2001 of Sally Ride Science, a company that creates science programs and publications for elementary and middle school students, and her service on both the accident investigation boards for the Challenger and Columbia... Read more

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2014-03-18T09:28:42-07:00

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Jesus Loves Karl Barth

Last updated on: March 18, 2014 at 9:28 am By Fred Sanders

A witty colleague writes: I know “Jesus loves me, This I know,” is the most important thing Karl Barth ever wrote, but when I googled it, I came up with more questions than answers. Was he asked to give the “answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything?” or “his most profound theological concept” or to reduce the Church Dogmatics to a post card? When he was asked, did he “not skip a beat” or “bury his head in his hands,... Read more

Theology

2014-03-18T09:28:43-07:00

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STUDY at BIOLA (1941)

Last updated on: March 18, 2014 at 9:28 am By Fred Sanders

I don’t have an image of it, but here is the nifty text from an ad in Biola’s King’s Business magazine from August 1941, p. 307. The ad invites prospective students to come to the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, which had not yet started using the neologism “Biola” but occasionally did refer to itself with the initials B.I.O.L.A. And in the spirit of acronyms, the ad invited people to S.T.U.D.Y. there. STUDY stands for Set for the defense of... Read more

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