Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Reading Scripture With The Reformers
The title of Timothy George’s Reading Scripture With The Reformers can be somewhat misleading. The book itself is not a collection of various Reformers’ readings of Scripture. Nor is it a book with extended discussions on the method the Reformers used to read Scripture. For those topics, you may want to look into the Reformation Commentary on…
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License to Kill: A Field Manual For Mortifying Sin
This past Sunday, we continued our sermon series through James at CrossPointe. We’re taking it pretty slow (so far at least) and hitting 3 or so verses at a time. In the sermon on James 1:12-15, our pastor Jared referenced John Owen’s famous quotation, “Be killing sin or it will be killing you.” Highly appropriate…
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Stewarding the Environment at SeaWorld
After roughly two months of trying, Ali and I were finally able to make it to SeaWorld for the day. We had scored complimentary passes and so the only budget hit was the highway robbery they consider a fair price for food in the park. That, and $7 per person for five minnows, a total…
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Weekly Digest 5/5
My Posts This Week Triperspectival Spiritual Formation j.mp/IiwVWs May Editorial j.mp/Kohqeg Book Review: Psalms As Torah: Reading Biblical Song Ethically j.mp/K1Df6N Book Review: Proverbs and Ecclesiastes (Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible) j.mp/JVS50x Book Review: A Commentary on the Psalms Volume 1 j.mp/JHGLDI Books Ordered and Received Wordsmithy: Hot Tips for the Writing Life by Douglas Wilson j.mp/IOauwT…
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A Commentary on the Psalms Volume 1
On Wednesday, I had a review of Psalms as Torah, looking at how it encourages deeper meditations on the Psalter. Yesterday, I offered a review of Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, which is the first commentary I’ve reviewed on here. Today’s post is somewhat of a cross between the two and we’ll look at Allen P. Ross’…
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Proverbs and Ecclesiastes
Commentaries are an area of review I haven’t done much in work yet. I say yet since between today and tomorrow I’ll offer two commentary reviews, and hopefully in the future I’ll have a few more. Today we’ve got Daniel Treier’s Proverbs and Ecclesiastes from the Brazos Theological Commentary series. This was my first exposure to the series, and…
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Psalms As Torah: Reading Biblical Song Ethically
Psalms as Torah is the most recent book published in the Studies in Theological Interpretation series. I’m gradually trying to collect all of them, and am only 1 short at this point, though this is only my 2nd to review (here’s the first). So far though, this is my favorite one and it has pushed me to start…
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May Editorial
Over the new couple of months, I want to progressively roll out some changes here on the blog. Ideally, these will benefit both my personal workflow and your reading experience. We’ll be taking a few turns, in both content and style, and I’d like to take you along for the ride. If you blog as…
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Triperspectival Spiritual Formation
Over at Provocations and Pantings, Timmy Brister is starting to unpack his vision for gospel-centered spiritual formation. It is also highly triperspectival, which is why I’m sharing it with you here. So far, there’s three posts: Background Triperspectival Framework The Gospel Forms Because it is such a great image that Brister is unpacking, I thought…
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Weekly Digest 4/28
My Posts From Marturo The Explicit Gospel Ryan Gosling and Theology Lifted: Experiencing The Resurrection Life 10 Ironies in Real Marriage The Drama of Doctrine: The Drama 40 Questions About The End Times Some Posts From Words With Nate Why College Textbooks Are A Rip-Off Starbucks Secret Menu How To Know When To Check Your…
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