Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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How To Have A Better Day Off
A few Mondays ago, I decided to put together a little tutorial on how to have a great day off. Today seems like a good day to offer a Twitter tutorial on how to have refreshing day off. Step #1: Get up early #HowToMakeADayOff — Nate Claiborne (@nateclaiborne) February 4, 2013 Mondays have typically been…
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8 Resources For Changing Lives
Some of the most influential books I’ve read are pictured in the stack above. I was first introduced to Ed Welch during the last class in my second year at Word of Life Bible Institute. His book, When People Are Big and God Is Small, is not only in the top of the stack…
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Building A Theological Library: Old Testament Commentaries
Looking back over the completed list of my recommendations on Old Testament commentaries, you may notice some patterns. If you haven’t looked, here’s the list of posts: Overview Old Testament Backgrounds The Pentateuch The Former Prophets The Latter Prophets The Writings In the Old Testament Backgrounds I gave you a brief commentary survey, but I wanted to…
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Ephesians (ZECNT)
Clinton Arnold is professor of New Testament language and literature at Talbot School of Theology. He is also the general editor of the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament series. He’s the guy pictured in this post that explains 7 reasons you might like this commentary series. In order to not just write the…
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Doctrine: Scripture
Last night we continued in Doctrine class, finishing out our section on revelation by focusing specifically on the doctrine of Scripture. We mostly walked through my position paper, which you can download in PDF here: Doctrinal Statement on Scripture. Since I made that statement, I’ve read, and sometimes reviewed, several very helpful books on the doctrine…
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Quotes From Intro to Systematic Theology by Cornelius Van Til
On Monday, I mentioned how helpful I’ve found Cornelius Van Til’s Introduction to Systematic Theology. I first read it during my first year in seminary. Recently, I’ve been re-reading it in Logos and taking advantage of digital highlighting. It’ll be interesting to compare what I highlighted then and now. In the meantime, I thought I’d…
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Song of Solomon: An Invitation to Intimacy
Douglas Sean O’Donnell is the senior pastor of New Covenant Church in Naperville, Illinois. He is also the author of The Beginning and End of Wisdom, which I’ve previously reviewed on here. Quite the student of the wisdom literature, O’Donnell did his doctoral work on Song of Solomon and this commentary in the Preach The…
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Building A Theological Library: The Writings
Last week, we looked at my commentary recommendations on the Latter Prophets. Today, we’ll move on to the Writings, which is essentially the wisdom literature plus what didn’t fit in the prophets. If you’re keeping score, that means we’re looking at not only Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Solomon (the wisdom literature), but also…
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Who Do You Think You Are? Finding Your True Identity In Christ
For those who don’t know, Mark Driscoll is the founding pastor of Mars Hill church in Seattle, as well as the Acts 29 church planting network. Our church, CrossPointe Waterford Lakes, is actually not only in the Acts 29 network, but in the Mars Hill network as well as part of a year long mentoring…
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Doctrine: Revelation
In case you missed last night’s Doctrine class, here are the slides we went through: Revelation. Since this chapter really focused more on the doctrine of Scripture, we focused primarily on revelation itself, and put off things like inspiration and inerrancy until next week. In my own understanding of revelation, I’ve found the thought of Cornelius…
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