Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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God Is Love: God Has Spoken To Us
I had hoped to get this posted yesterday, but alas, more pressing matters were at hand. This chapter of God Is Love: A Biblical and Systematic Theology is a bit longer than the first (see last week’s post) and covers everything from general revelation to interpreting the Bible. The headings below are most of the headings in…
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How To Tell How Dogmatic You Are
The other day, I was listening to the Freakonomics podcast, something I would encourage you to do as well. Besides being interesting, there are often tangential points made that could turn into a fruitful blog post. I guess we’ll see. I don’t remember the exact episode, but in the course of the podcast, the hosts…
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Building A Theological Library: Romans, Corinthians, Galatians, Thessalonians
Several weeks ago, we covered the Gospels and Acts in the New Testament portion of the Building A Theological Library series. Just to reiterate, these are my preferences and what make up my library (for the most part). There are definitely some great resources I’ve overlooked. What I’m trying to do here is give you what…
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God Is Love: The Christian Experience of God
A while back, I offered you a full review of Gerald Bray’s God Is Love: A Biblical and Systematic Theology. In the interim, I decided to make it the textbook for my 11th grade Bible class which is a theology class. This week, we’re starting our formal trek through it. Students are highlighting 3 or…
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Book Review Page Update
If you’re new to the blog, welcome! Depending on when you started reading, you may have missed several of the books I’ve reviewed of the summer. Since it was roughly 2 a week, that’s a lot of books that weren’t reflected on my book reviews page. I’ve now updated it, and here’s the rundown of…
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Preaching To A Post-Everything World: Crafting Biblical Sermons That Connect With Our Culture
Recently, I finished working my way through Zack Eswine’s Preaching To A Post-Everything World: Crafting Biblical Sermons That Connect With Our Culture. Though I don’t preach regularly, I found this book useful for my teaching and it will definitely impact how I prepare future messages when I do preach. Also, because I work with Docent…
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Church History Volume Two: From Pre-Reformation to Present Day
You may have seen this review post yesterday. Somehow, I had thought today was 9/25, and so that’s why a draft-shell of a review posted yesterday. Anyway, if nothing else, it gave you a heads up on an upcoming review/preview. This book, Church History Volume Two: From Pre-Reformation to Present Day arrived at my doorstep after I…
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Finally Free: Fighting For Purity With The Power of Grace
Heath Lambert is the executive director of the National Association of Nouthetic Counselors (soon to be re-named). He also serves as associate professor of Biblical Counseling at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, as well as associate dean of applied studies and chairman of the department of biblical counseling at their undergrad institution (Boyce). He is…
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Matthew (ZECNT)
As I mentioned a couple weeks back, I want to start rolling out more preview-type reviews. I’ve got several larger volumes that I am actually putting to use in classroom prep and thought it apt to preview them for you. One such volume is Grant Osborne’s Matthew commentary in the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the…
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Worship Music Makes My Mind Wander
This was a realization I had the other day and I’m wondering why it took so long. Some of it might be the fresh perspective I had after spending the summer working Sat/Sun mornings at Starbucks. By doing that, I missed church for the better part of two months. The first Sunday I was back,…
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