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  • The End of Our Exploring

    Matthew Lee Anderson is the lead writer over at Mere Orthodoxy and the author of Earthen Vessels: Why Our Bodies Matter to Our Faith. You may have seen articles from him elsewhere, including but not limited to CNN, the Washington Post, Christianity Today, Books & Culture, Relevant, and The City.[ref]He has also guest posted and…

  • Understanding Spiritual Warfare: Four Views

    As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a big fan of the multi-view books. I think this is my fifth one to review, but it’s my first one to offer a giveaway for. Keep reading for detail on that. Overview Understanding Spiritual Warfare opens with a substantial introductory essay. Editors James Beilby and Paul Eddy have done…

  • 6 Big Books I’m Plodding Through This Year

    I learned my lesson from last year. Instead of 13 books I’m planning to read through, here are 6 books on the larger side that I’m “plodding” through: Foundations of Soul Care: A Christian Psychology Proposal by Eric L. Johnson A Puritan Theology and Meet the Puritans Christian Apologetics: A Comprehensive Case for Biblical Faith…

  • ETS Paper 2012: Hollywood, Geneva, and Athens

    So, earlier this year I submitted the abstract for my thesis as a proposal for this years annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society. Surprisingly, it was accepted, and I was faced with the prospect of editing it down to a paper that could be coherently presented in 40 minutes or so. I put this…

  • What Your Mind Style Says About Your View of God: Randoms

    Tuesday, I started explaining how your mind style influences (to some extent at least) how you view God. If nothing else, your mind style should be looked at as a kind of baseline that can either be balanced out with biblical teaching, or taken to an extreme. It doesn’t determine your view of God, but…

  • What Your Mind Style Says About Your View of God: Sequentials

    [Make sure you also read my post about random mind styles and your view of God] In case you don’t immediately recognize this guy, it’s John Calvin. Hold that thought, because we’ll come back to him. Before we get there, we need to talk a little bit about what mind styles are. You need to…

  • 4 Talks on Spiritual Warfare You Need To Hear

    I would also recommend you download this: Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices

  • How To Know Your Mind Style

    In our faculty orientation last year, we had the opportunity to have a workshop with Dr. Kathy Koch (“cook”) about Mind Styles. I’ve been meaning to blog on it for over a year now but just kept talking about other things instead (which says something about my Mind Style). Anyway, I found the program extremely helpful…

  • Addiction and Virtue: Beyond the Models of Disease and Choice

    In Addiction and Virtue: Beyond the Models of Disease and Choice, professor of philosophy Kent Dunnington takes the traditional ways of thinking about addiction and flips the paradigm. That probably tells you little about what the book really talks about, but as the subtitle bears out, people typically conceive of addictions as either the result…

  • Adventures in Psychology

    This series was actually started a while ago and then had to be abandoned to give its conceptual territory in my thinking while I focused on finishing my last year of seminary. With that completed now, I am planning to resume this series and work through a few books, specifically Psychology and Christianity: Five Views. The…