Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Union With Christ: In Scripture, History, and Theology
Ever since my extensive foray into the doctrine of justification back in the Spring, I’ve wanted to also do a more in depth study of our union with Christ. Now with Robert Letham’s Union With Christ I’ve started that project and immediately struck gold. This was the first book I had read by him, but I…
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Have You Heard of Credo House Yet?
Here’s a short video explaining how you can help this ministry grow and maybe even make it to your neck of the woods: If you haven’t heard about Credo House yet, it’s something I’m particular excited about and hoping we’ll see here in Orlando sooner rather than later. Here’s some more info on what a…
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Questioning Your Spirituality
Recently, I’ve been working my way through Brian Kay’s Trinitarian Spirituality. In his third chapter, he embarks on a search for a viable Trinitarian spirituality, which as he puts it is one that “should come completely undone if the doctrine of the Trinity were proved untrue” (p. 31). In order to examine prospective models of…
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The 3650 Challenge
This isn’t the first, and probably won’t be the last challenge I post about on here. You may remember talk of a 90-day challenge back in the early summer. I’ll have more to say about that, and what I’ll be doing with it come January 1st. In the meantime, I wanted to pass along this…
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Top 11 Book Reviews of 2011
While I’ll have another few reviews up before the end of the year, they probably won’t have enough time to generate the hits to compete with some of these. Although, that being said, when we get to the 11 best books I’ve read this year, several of them are from the last couple of weeks…
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The Marturo Collective
As mentioned earlier, I’ve been thinking recently about Marturo and what form that might take these days. In what might seem like an unrelated phenomena, this blog has gone through several name changes. To give you a quick rundown, when I first started blogging about more than just my random thoughts about life (i.e. my…
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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”,…
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Why, O God? Suffering and Disability in the Bible and Church
Larry Waters & Roy Zuck eds., Why O God?: Suffering and Disability, in The Bible and The Church. Wheaton: Crossway, July, 2011. 336 pp. Paperback, $22.00. Buy it: Amazon Read an excerpt Visit the publisher’s page Thanks to Crossway for the review copy! This week in our reading group, we’re covering the chapters in John Frame’s Apologetics to the Glory of God about the problem…
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Unitarian vs. Trinitarian Worship
[This post is part of the Revamping Christian Worship series] At my request, Wipf & Stock was kind enough to send along a copy of Brian Kay’s Trinitarian Spirituality: John Owen and the Doctrine of God in Western Devotion. I’m only through with chapter 2 so far (which only 3opgs into the 200 total) but…
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What Steve Jobs Can Teach the Church
From the title of the post, your initial thought might be “not much.” Jobs was admittedly a jerk, and while he inspired people to do things they never thought they were capable of, he often did so through ridicule, insult, and downright cruelty at times. Steve Jobs is probably not the best candidate to teach the…
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