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Matt Harmon and I relaunched our podcast, Biblical Theology Briefing. 🎙️
We've got six episodes lined up for season 1, and I can't wait to share them with you.
First episode: "What is Biblical Theology?"
youtube.com/watch?v=RQn8desA…
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It can be spiritually helpful to the person praying to spell this logic out in prayer: "God, I am depending on you for this [C] because of this [D]."
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I’m not sure you even have to be a card-carrying Calvinist to think that 85% of academic criticisms of Calvinism are either uninformed, or critiquing something that bears little resemblance to a meaningful Calvinist intellectual tradition.
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9 months from now you could be holding your newborn daughter
9 years from now you could be teaching your son to ski
19 years from now you could be at your daughter’s graduation
29 years from now you could be meeting your first grandson
or
you could be at another concert.
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Embracing a concept of marriage as a form of sexual-romantic companionship or domestic partnership (something that happened long before the advent of "same-sex marriage") was, I believe, a tragic mistake. That's why I join *Greater Than* in working to restore in law and cultural the historic conjugal understanding of marriage--an understanding that prioritizes the needs and rights of children to the desires or perceived interests of adults.
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This is an important story. The Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America had a pastor promoting racist errors.
The RPCNA not only defrocked him, but they also excommunicated him.
These errors must be likewise repudiated wherever they are found.
wng.org/sift/reformed-rpcna-…
Lady Elizabeth Catherwood (1927–2026)
mljtrust.org/blog/Martyn-Llo…
Here is a tribute she gave to her father, Dr. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones: youtube.com/watch?v=CHRS2D0p…
If you've ever struggled to figure out what to believe about whether the Father has more authority than the Son in eternity past—the Trinity debate in 2016—this may be the most helpful interview you can watch. Kyle Claunch is a masterful teacher:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=rPJtJw…
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Every example of misery in the Gospels (being blind, deaf, lame, sick, dead, etc) represents specifically covenant curses pronounced on Israel in Lev 26; Deut 28 due to their covenant infidelity.
Correspondingly, every mercy they receive is promised covenant mercy (Deut 30:3).
Find and follow truth-tellers like @DavidBahnsen: equal weights and measures, not cowardly tribalism that only sees sin and compromise in one direction.
I scrolled my top ten sources for people furious about various left wing 2020/21 cultural absurdities, particularly as it pertains to gender, life, and other traditional conservative values issues … those loudest about being principled and angriest about evangelicals who were silent in that moment requiring cultural courage. I scrolled them and went back as far and deep as I could to see their boldness now in the face of HHS sanctioned support of Planned Parenthood, and the barrage of predictable RFK moves against traditional values re: life and marriage etc (many other places of compromise and capitulation besides HHS). You know how many incidents I found of “courage” and “people calling out” such things?
Zero.
I found zero.
We live in a day and age of tribalistic cowardice.
If I ran this same test around economic principles most of the culture war zealots of 2020 would actually be SUPPORTING the state-sanctioned moves to central planning of the last year.
I will be clear as can be: those who were quiet and cowardly in 2020/21 deserved scorn - it was a despicable assault on our values.
Those silent (or even cheerleading) now, also deserve scorn - not just for the same cowardice they once accused others of, but for rank hypocrisy.
The future belongs to the truth-tellers.
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A generous donor has now make this book from Oxford University Press free of charge. Click the link at the bottom of the article to get a copy.
This may be the most fascinating thing you read all day. (Yes, it's about a groundbreaking academic monograph, but much more.)
thegospelcoalition.org/revie…
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C. S. Lewis, letter to Mary Neylan, January 20, 1942:
I know all about the despair of overcoming chronic temptations.
It is not serious provided self-offended petulance, annoyance at breaking records, impatience etc doesn't get the upper hand. No amount of falls will really undo us if we keep on picking ourselves up each time. We shall of course be very muddy and tattered children by the time we reach home. But the bathrooms are all ready, the towels put out, and the clean clothes are airing in the cupboard.
The only fatal thing is to lose one's temper and give it up. It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present to us: it is the very sign of His presence.
--The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis, Volume 2 (Cambridge University Press, 2004), 507
John Piper, in 2013, reciting the Letter to the Philippians from memory:
youtube.com/watch?v=-gqhg5E_…
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Thanks to everyone for supporting my new YouTube channel!
Released so far:
- 6 Reasons I’m a Baptist
- Was God Really Crucified?
- Interview with Matthew Levering on Catholic-Protestant Unity(?)
Forthcoming:
- 4 Myths about Nicaea
- Did Jesus Need the Holy Spirit?
- Allegory, Church History, and Evangelicals
- Interview with Mark Smith on Nicaea, Chalcedon, and Exegesis
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Replying to @TGC
Due to a generous donor, you can get a free digital copy of the book at josephusandjesus.com
A statement from @citieschurch.
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