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  • What Happened to Marturo?

    If you remember back far enough, my blog used to be called Marturo. As I explained about four years ago: At this point, Marturo is essentially a name for a ministry I spearhead that has a very bright, but largely undefined future. The word comes from the first person singular of the Greek verb “martureo”,…

  • And There Is One God (Part 2)

    [This post is part of How The Trinity Changes Everything series] Yesterday I gave you the first part of a detailed description of God’s attributes. Today, here’s the second half: God in action is good, holy, just, true, wise, love, merciful, personal, and one. The divine nature in no way constitutes a fourth member, but rather is what all three person of the Godhead share…

  • And There Is One God (Part 1)

    [This post is part of How The Trinity Changes Everything series] Now that we’ve talked about the persons of the Trinity, let’s turn to the attributes for a couple of posts. Here’s the first half: God eternally exists as three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, each being fully God, and there is one God. The…

  • Mission as God’s Glory

    From Disciple: Getting Your Identity From Jesus: God’s mission, then, is writing his story through what he treasures. Since his glory is precious to him, his story centers on the declaration of his glory. His glory is reflected in his story through the very unfolding of the story as he is disclosed for who he…

  • The Holy Spirit is God

    [This post is part of How the Trinity Changes Everything series] Of the three posts so far, this one is the shortest, but don’t take that to imply it’s less important. On the Holy Spirit, I said: The Holy Spirit is both God and a distinct person in the Godhead, not merely the acting of God in…

  • The Son is God

    [This post is part of How the Trinity Changes Everything series] In the last post, we looked at God the Father. In this post, we shift to God the Son. Here’s what I had to say: From the beginning, the central tenet of belief in Christianity is that Jesus Christ is divine.  Jesus Christ, the Son…

  • October’s Top 10 Posts

    Looking back over last month, here’s the posts that generated the most interest: 10. Halloween Reading 9. Pumped Up Kicks Dubstep Video 8. The Goodness of Inequality 7. Muse: Absolution 6. Book Review: Community 5. Inception Within Inception 4. Celebrating Hell in the Name of Contextualization 3. Being Reasonable About Science 2. The Elephant in…

  • The Father is God

    [This post is part of How The Trinity Changes Everything series] The first several posts in this series are from a paper I had to write in seminary. With only one semester under my belt, I was tasked with offering a single page definition of God. I could use end notes to support my formal…

  • Right Reason and the Princeton Mind: An Unorthodox Proposal

    The subtitle of Paul Kjoss Helseth’s book has a hint of irony to it. On the one hand, his proposal concerning the giants of Old Princeton (Archibald Alexander, Charles Hodge, B. B. Warfield, and J. Gresham Machen) may be “unorthodox” because it cuts against the consensus. On the other hand, his proposal demonstrates that they…

  • John Eldredge, Steve Jobs, Mitt Romney and Other Assorted Reading

    Since I’m not sharing too many links through Tumblr anymore, here’s some that I thought you might want to check out from this past week: Tim Challies shares not one, but two quotes from the new John Eldredge book: Arrrr You Serious and Worst…Gift…Ever. (For my thoughts on Eldredge’s non-sense, read this and check out the…