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The road to Emmaus and all the things concerning Christ...
The adventures of leaving theological training to starting in full time church ministry present to me familiar challenges that my three years of training could not solve. And one such...
How can God become King? The Son of God and Jesus Christ
Recently I reread N.T. Wright’s small but helpful book on worship, For All God’s Worth. This practically rich and theologically thought-provoking book was written when Wright was the Dean of...
The Futility of Fighting Sin with Sin
I think I may have started to find narrative more persuasive and more compelling than propositions (that's quite a step for me). Again I have been thinking about Tolkien's Lord...
What is the Gospel: Back to and Beyond Eden
What is the Gospel? When I think over my time at college I can see a definite movement in the way that I would respond to this question. There is...
Yeshua and the Crowd
Reposted from the blog of Francis Spufford's book "Unapologetic" Daylight finds him in a procession again, but this time no one could mistake him for a king. He’s stumbling along under...
Jenson on Hegel: Philosophical and Trinitarian Principles for Relationships
Earlier this year, for my systematics course, we discussed the modern issues surrounding Trinitarian theology I got to work on as essay dealing specifically with the difficulties regarding our doctrine...
Doodle: Perseverance or Preservation of the Saints
In my first year at theological college, one of my lecturers warned students away from beginning essays with dictionary definitions; let’s hope he doesn’t read this post. If you survey...
On fear and Christian faithfulness
While helping a friend prepare for one of their exams last week, I found myself getting rather frustrated with the portrayal of views the lecturer clearly disagreed with. Their understanding...
