Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Hearing The Old Testament: Listening For God’s Address
A while back, I was taking advantage of the fact that RTS not only has a good library, but a great bookstore as well. One day when I came in, I stumbled upon this new release by Eerdmans, Hearing The Old Testament: Listening For God’s Address. Knowing that I’d be teaching a year of Old…
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Stephen Wellum on The Backdrop of Kingdom Through Covenant
Dispensationalism and covenant theology (along with their varieties) largely frame how evangelicals put their Bibles together. Each view attempts to serve as an interpretive grid for how to understand the metanarrative of Scripture. In this way, both systems function as examples of biblical theologies, i.e., “whole-Bible theologies,” which then lead to various systematic theological conclusions. Yet it…
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How To Be More Productive in College
This past Friday, I had the opportunity to talk at the weekly meeting of Shift, an on campus ministry at UCF. The event was called College Planning 101, and I think overall it went really well. While they were all brainstorming to gather everyone’s concerns onto the board, I noticed they could easily be split…
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“In This Way”: An Extended Review of Kingdom Through Covenant
Earlier this year, Crossway released a bombshell named Kingdom Through Covenant into the playing field of evangelical theological studies. That may be a slight exaggeration, but considering that the Gospel Coalition gathered Darrell Bock (a progressive dispensationalist), Michael Horton (the leading mainstream covenant theologian guru), and Douglas Moo (perhaps a via media between the two) in order to…
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Catan, Clif Bars, and Commentary on Life in General
Every now and then, I make a top 10 list. It’s inherently random, and can include just about anything (think like Bryan Allain’s Monday Soup). As part of the existential turn, here’s my current top 10: Playing Settlers of Catan on my iPad Ok, so I was aware of Settlers of Catan back in Dallas.…
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Learning How To Pray With Nehemiah
As I mentioned a couple of weeks back, we’re going through Nehemiah at Crosspointe. Back in the day, I took a class on Nehemiah during my sophomore year of college. With my attention focused back on this book, I thought I’d go back and revisit my notes since I remembered it being a pretty good…
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The Gospel According to Isaiah 53
In March of 2009, toward the end of my second year of studies at Dallas Seminary, Chosen People Ministries held a conference just down the road at Irving Bible Church. I vaguely remember this going on. I was engaged and taking 2nd semester Hebrew alongside 4th semester Greek (and 2 other classes), so even though…
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A Tradition Made To Be Broken
Back in the day (see picture), I would often blog in bullet points. This is another way of saying, “I wrote like Rob Bell before Rob Bell was cool.” (I also used to wear some pretty sweet belt buckles, most of which I still have.) Maybe it replicates real time thought better, or maybe it…
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Nehemiah: A Church For The City, The Nations, The Generations
This coming Sunday is the 3 year anniversary of the church we’re part of here in Florida. So we’re commemorating it with our yearly Vision Sunday. If you’re in the area, you ought to come check us out and see how God has been at work. And, if you’re not currently part of a church…
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Charity and Its Fruits: Review and Reading Plan
If it’s alright with you, I’m going to deviate from my review script just a tad on this one. Since I know you’re probably curious, this is for a couple of reasons. First, unlike most of the books I review, this one isn’t technically new. Rather, it’s a new edition of Jonathan Edwards’ classic Charity…
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