It's been a couple of months since I posted anything about my book The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything, but the book continues to make the rounds and find new readers. Here are some of the most interesting tidbits from recent times.
Check out Crossway's nifty 90-second trailer for the book:
Fred Sanders - "The Deep Things of God" Trailer from Crosswa...
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As soon as a teaching semester ends I begin excavations on my desk, digging through the layers of books to find the desk itself. This semester I got to teach the gospel of Matthew at the best Bible Institute in Los Angeles, so a thick growth of Matthean reference works needs to be cleared away before summer gets started. As I load them back onto shelves or return them to the li...
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Father in heaven, Lord of hosts, God of Israel: you are the God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You are the God, you alone, who made these students and gave them to us for a season. We pray for them today in the same way as King Hezekiah prayed for his people two thousand seven hundred years ago. When the Assyrian armies of Sennacharib came against Jerusalem, the...
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Three things have been on my mind for a long time. The first is Jesus' strong word about his family being those who do the will of the Father. The second is my singleness. The third is homosexuality, as I've had many dear gay friends over the years.
At a recent chapel at Biola University, I spoke about the church as family, the implications that has had in my life as a singl...
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A few weeks ago I started a silly hashtag at my Twitter account (fredfredsanders), describing heresies in a way that totally missed the point but somehow were instructive anyway. It didn't exactly trend, as they say, and I ran out of ideas after about a dozen. But if you're into terrible puns on recondite topics, man, this is the place for you.
DoSiDosetism: Claimed Christ d...
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"Where in the Bible does it say we should have a personal relationship with Jesus?"
This seems to be an increasingly common question. My knee-jerk reaction to the question used to be, "It's presupposed everywhere in Scripture!" Meanwhile I would be thinking in the back of my mind, "Here is somebody who doesn't have a personal relationship with Jesus."
But I've come to re...
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Hi readers. Just a quick note to mention that I'll be participating in an upcoming free conference on missional ethics at Biola on June 3. It's a great line-up of folks, hosted by Talbot's own Andy Draycott. I'll be speaking on the church and homosexuality, and I'm glad to be a part.
You can find all the info here.
Oh yeah, did I mention it's free?
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Rudolf Ewald Stier wrote a unique commentary back in the nineteenth century. According to his biography, it began as an exposition of Jesus' chief parables, but Stier found so much power in the parables that he decided to write a commentary on every word spoken by Jesus as recorded in the New Testament. The series, The Words of Jesus, grew to eight volumes.
Stier was an inte...
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Father, who so loved the world that you gave your only Son;
Father, whose love was made manifest in sending your Son into the world so we may live through him;
Father, who predestined us in love to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ;
Father, who loved us so much that we should be called, and should actually be, sons of God;
Father, who has sent the Spirit of your...
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Christians, and Christian societies, honour dead bodies, because Jesus Christ, God in the flesh, had one.
We do not abuse the dead.
We do not kick corpses.
Traditional Christians do not encourage cremation.
President Obama made the right call to take out bin Laden, the right call to end torture of prisoners, and was right not to release the bin Laden photograph.
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The best book on the doctrine of Scripture has never been written, and is by J.I. Packer.
Every time I teach on the doctrine of Scripture, I find myself reaching for a few J.I. Packer quotations that have coalesced in my memory to form a complete statement on bibliology. But when I reach for the book they're in, I discover that they're not in a book. They're in three differ...
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