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We just started a new academic year at Biola University, with the corresponding influx of new freshmen. In the Torrey Honors Institute, we have two approaches to Great Books education: read the books chronologically (in our “Morgan House,” named for G. Campbell Morgan), or thematically (in o... Continued
My book on the Trinity is officially released today: The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything. Here's a thought based on the book, though I don't put it exactly this way there.
A lot of Bible-believing Christians have trouble seeing the doctrine of the Trinity in Scripture. They see a verse here and a verse there that help prov...
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This weekend was the official release of a new set of songs from my home church, Grace Evangelical Free Church in La Mirada, CA. The album has a website where you can listen to the songs online, buy the album, or buy individual tracks. There's also a blog there, which includes well-produced videos with interviews about the music.
The standout t...
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Reflections after reading Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Slavery was the original American sin.
I don’t know anyone who justifies race-based slavery, but I have known seemingly good folk with more than a dollop of sympathy for the Confederacy. Growing centralized government makes “states’ rights” look good, an...
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I have lain on the floor under the power of God . . . at least, I must say to my skeptical reader, it seemed so to me. At some points in my life, it felt as if God came and took power over every faculty and left me weak, utterly powerless, before His glory.
When praying for Pentecost, sometimes we receive it and nothing is like it. Power comes t...
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Donald Bloesch, evangelical theologian, died this week. He was a unique figure in twentieth-century theology, and now that he has passed from the scene, what strikes me about his work is his noble isolation. I don't mean that he was personally lonely: by all reports he sustained many close friendships, and inspired long-term loyalty and affection ...
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I recently wrote a book about the Trinity, after a couple of decades of thinking hard about it. In those 20 years, I've read a lot, and pondered a lot, and changed my mind about a few things. I've discovered that there are some questions without answers, and some things we can't know.
But I've also learned that I knew a whole lot about the Trin...
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Today (August 26) marks the death of Adam Clarke (1762-1832), one of the greatest of evangelical Bible commentators. His masterpiece and lifework (first published from 1810 to 1826) is the voluminous commentary on the entire Bible, which is stunning for the amount of detailed investigation it brings together in one place.
The full title of the...
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Somehow I missed soaking in Salinger as a young adult. In this, if my current students are any indication, I am a rarity. They know Catcher in the Rye the way I knew That Hideous Strength. If I worried about being Mark Studdock, then they worried about being another misunderstood Holden Caulfield.
When two students I greatly respect told me that...
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Not many of us get a chance at greatness, but one man has his chance right now. The man who can make history is Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the religious leader behind the planned Islamic Center near Ground Zero.
He can lift America beyond bigotry and beyond hate by speaking a prophetic word as he travels to the Middle East. If he submits to God and...
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