This weekend my wife and I went out to dinner with a couple from our church. The wife noted that our last two worship gatherings felt more like a Friends Meeting than a Baptist worship service. Some in her family were Friends (Quakers) and she had...
This small book by Darrell W. Johnson helps us understand the essence of the trinity – how the term came about, the preservation of the idea by the early church and the biblical texts that demonstrate not only the concept but the reality of...
It hit me like a ton of bricks. I have read this passage many times, but this time it was there in front of God and everyone. It shook me to the core, so much in fact that I had to pause and ponder its implications. Going through the genealogy of...
The church must have an integration of missional, incarnational, relational, organic, and reproducing qualities and aspects. Failure to integrate each of these qualities is a failure to be a missional church.
Dr. John Franke is the Lester and Kay Clemens Professor of Missional Theology at Biblical Theological Seminary in Hatfield, PA, a suburb of Philadelphia. A couple of years ago, I had the privilege of having lunch with him just to talk about...
Tapping into the findings of his latest book, The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement, NYTimes columnist David Brooks unpacks new insights into human nature from the cognitive sciences — insights with massive...
I am falling in love with the Trinity and its implications. Here are some book recommendations for studying the Trinity.
Recently, I had a comment on a post about The Jesus Manifesto. The comment was a question and I answered the question in the comment stream but thought it might also make a good post. The question was, “I¢â‚¬â„¢m wondering if you have found a...
In 2009-2010 I began to hear of a discussion about the eternal subordination of Jesus in the Trinitarian scheme. It's main proponents are Wayne Grudem from Phoenix Seminary and Bruce Ware from Southern Seminary. The eternal subordination of Jesus...
As my wife and I hit the road today for a couple of weeks of needed Christmas vacation, I thought I would share with you some of the reading I will be doing while on the road.