Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Westminster Sale: Jerry Bridges’ Top 5 Best Sellers
One of the very influential books that I read early on at bible school was Jerry Bridges’ Pursuit of Holiness (which I’m probably due for a re-read this year). Recently, Bridges’ newest book was released and is on sale at Westminster: In addition to that, his top 5 best sellers are also on sale: The Discipline…
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Trinitarian Spirituality: John Owen and The Doctrine of God in Western Devotion
Few theologians have impacted me personally more than John Owen. I stumbled upon his writings early in my time at Dallas, and probably learned more about soteriology and sanctification in reading his Glory of Christ and The Holy Spirit: His Gifts and Power than I did in my classes. That’s not to talk down about…
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8 Points on Jesus’ Parables
One of the books I’m tackling in 2012 is N. T. Wright’s Jesus and The Victory of God. Part of this is because I requested it to review, but it is also so it would shed light on our current church series in the book of Mark. We’re right at half-way through and are on…
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12 Books I’m Looking Forward to Tackling in 2012
There’s certainly going to be more than 12 books I read in 2012, but these are by far the biggest books I’ll be reading and wrestling with. Some of these will be spanned across the entire year and read at slow pace of a few pages each week. Others will be finished between now and…
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My Adjustments to Prof Horner’s Bible Reading Plan
Previously, I’ve mentioned I wanted to take part in the 3650 challenge. It fits in with my resolution to grow in my knowledge of Scripture. However, the more I thought about Prof Horner’s layout, and after my new friend Larry pointed it out, I decided to make some adjustments to the reading flow. As it…
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Everyone Is A Theologian
I’ve finally gotten around to interacting with Karl Barth. I was immediately struck by some things he pointed out on the opening page of Evangelical Theology. I’ll let Barth speak for himself, so consider him a sort of “Guest Blogger” for today. But many things can be meant by the word “God.” For this reason,…
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The Presupposition of Tolerance
Also truthfully ironic: More or less hits the nail on the head doesn’t it? (From the Liberal College Girl meme)
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A Marturo Collective Reading Schedule: Frame, Calvin, and Horton
If you’re part of our reading group, (which I decided to call The Marturo Collective) here’s the rundown for reading through John Frame’s Doctrine of the Knowledge of God: Week of 1/2: xv-29 Week of 1/9: 30-61 Week of 1/16: 62-100 Week of 1/23: 101-164 Week of 1/30: 169-214 Week of 2/6: 215-241 Week of…
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Resolved: To Develop the Ministry of Marturo in 2012
You may or may not have noticed, but I went ahead and changed the title of the blog back to “Marturo.” I mulled the idea over for a while before executing, but I think this is the right choice. If you remember back to about a month ago, I brought up the idea of Marturo…
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Resolved: To Pursue Musical Excellence in 2012
Though I haven’t talked abundantly about music here in the past, this coming year it will probably become more of a conversation topic. Part of this is because, judging from the feedback on How To Worship When You Think the Songs Suck, people like to talk about music. Even though it wasn’t the main point…
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