Why faith is required for scholarship
It is impossible to gain a proper understanding of reality apart from knowing that God is the ultimate context of reality. If one does not trust that God is Creator, Redeemer, and Lord of all, then one...
View Article11 Reasons to Make Space for Different Worship Cultures (a rif on 11 Reasons...
First a bit of clarity. I read 11 Reasons to Stop Offering Different “Worship Styles” from the perspective of a long-time contemporary worship musician, lover of traditional hymns, and theologically...
View ArticleA Life Well Lived: Robert L. Saucy
More than any other teacher, Dr. Robert Saucy taught me how to think theologically. His deep trust in Jesus, keen mind, ever-present curiosity, and humor modeled before me and so many students before...
View ArticleFragility
Two lives were taken overnight, their bodies left along my transit route. I was annoyed at the inconvenience, until I was ashamed of my annoyance. ~~ We are fragile. We too easily bow to our familial...
View Articlea process of experiencing
pixel by pixel, savored moments stop to ponder knowing significance embeds value. conclusions imply linked moments. remember, affections are glue: bigger links. decided focus, questioning,...
View ArticleChristian Higher Education and Interdisciplinarity
Despite the immense diversity of creation, we all accept that there exists in nature a profound underlying unity. The search for this unity provides the motivation for the lives of many different men —...
View ArticleWhere I Blog
This blog is on hiatus until further notice. My other blogs: Musings of a peripatetic wannabe-sage – a barely thematic journey through my tangentizing mental life Glory-ology – a study of the...
View ArticleThe Necessity of Fellowship
What is fellowship? Fellowship is vertical (with God) and horizontal (with one another) participation in Christ by the Spirit. (I’ll be fleshing that out in a later post.) Why is fellowship necessary?...
View ArticleWhat Real Leadership in the Church Looks Like
Those qualified to lead any given church have certain characteristics. They are trustworthy, truthful, and respected. They are concerned more about others than they are about self or rules. They make...
View ArticleGod’s splendor is refracted and dispersed through ideas.
The Bible is God’s Word. That is a fact. But God’s glory fills his creation, so it must also be reflected in the words and ideas flowing from humanity. From short statements of truth or opinion to...
View ArticleGlory as Goodness and Overwhelm
The depth of God’s glory is its incomprehensible concentration of splendor and weightiness. With reference to glory, depth is the quality of concentration, in which all of God’s splendor and...
View ArticleThe Commission is Communal
Disciple-making is always communal, whether in the initial phase of evangelism or the later phases of sanctification. Teaching and training one another toward Christlikeness requires a pedagogy...
View ArticleCommitted and Blunt
Even if the the congregation is full of pew-sitters and grouses, and I’m not saying that this is the case for any particular congregation, there is always a remnant who will hold each other accountable...
View ArticleEvidenced by Love
Loving one another bears God’s image before the world, providing evidence that he is God and we are his. Spirit-enabled mutual love within the body of Christ proclaims God’s love before the world. So...
View ArticleHere to Image
While the church is still in time and under the sun, she is called to image God before creation and proclaim his salvation. The Church accomplishes this imaging in partnership with the Spirit, sending...
View ArticleHis and Here
The essence of the church can only be understood in relation to God and the world. The church is persons in community in Christ, chosen and desired by God and set apart for him by him. She is a people...
View ArticleNotes-to-self for week ending September 3, 2021
• Following God is mental, emotional, and behavioral. • Since context matters, include context in interpretations. • Take responsibility for perception and keep developing its skills and improving its...
View ArticleEntering the Thick Darkness
A relationship of trust and remembered deliverance is the only safe way to enter the thick darkness of God’s presence. Left to our own devices, humanity leans toward servitude, forgetting what God has...
View ArticleNotes-to-self for week ending September 10, 2021
• Worship must be done God’s way, and everything within our worship gatherings ought to proclaim Jesus. • Christians are called to live lives that image God in ways their cultures understand. • Teach...
View ArticleElders and Deacons: Foundational Stories
Identity: Elders as soul carers; Deacons as problem solvers. In Acts 20:17-38, Paul gives a tearful farewell to the Elders from the church in Ephesus, instructing them to watch out for themselves and...
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