Friday, March 30, 2018

The Vision (3.30.18): And the truth shall make you free

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Image: Scene from I-64 West, Central Virginia, March 2018 Note: Devotion taken from last Sunday's sermon on John 8:21-32. ...
Tuesday, March 27, 2018

David Bentley Hart on Peter's Tears and A New Vision of Human Dignity

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Image: Guercino, Peter Weeping With Keys, c. 17th century One of the most poignant moments in the Gospel account of Christ’s pass...
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Monday, March 26, 2018

WM 94: Of Effectual Calling

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WM 94: Of Effectual Calling is posted. You can listen to it here . It’s been a while since I posted a WM. This has probably be...
Friday, March 23, 2018

The Vision: The creed of unbelief: "Thy record is not true."

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Image: Daffodils, North Garden, Virginia, March 2018 Note: Devotion taken from last Sunday's sermon on John 8:12-20. Then spak...
Wednesday, March 21, 2018

David Bentley Hart's Survey of the Patristic Age

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I’m enjoying reading through David Bentley Hart’s popular level work The Story of the Christianity (Quercus, 2009). It has short c...
Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Athanasius on how Christ turns men from fighting to farming

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Image: Sunset, North Garden, Virginia, March 2018 Athanasius in On the Incarnation describes the power of Christ to change Barba...
Monday, March 19, 2018

Athanasius on Proof that Christ is Alive

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Image: Cedar berries, North Garden, Virginia, March 2018 Athanasius in On the Incarnation on proof that Christ is alive: T...
Friday, March 16, 2018

The Woman Taken in Adultery Passage: Loved, Controverted, Misinterpreted

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Image: Ivory pyxis from Egypt (c. 5-6 century), depicting the woman taken in adultery. National Museum, Paris. Note: Devotion tak...

Athanasius on the Incarnation as the restoration of a stained portrait

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In On the Incarnation , Athanasius suggests the analogy of restored portrait painting to describe how the new Adam, Jesus, restored t...
Thursday, March 15, 2018

Athanasius compares the incarnation to a king entering a city

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I got started last Sunday preaching through chapter 8 of the confession “Of Christ the Mediator.” To prepare I’m reviewing Athanas...
Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Wilken on Baptism in the Early Church

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In Robert Louis Wilken’s The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity (Yale, 2012), he offers an interesting descripti...
Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Roman views of death and the attraction of Christianity

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Image: Roman death scene I’ve been continuing to read William Stearns Davis’s A Day in Old Rome (Allyn and Bacon, 1925, 1966). C...

Milosz on Free Speech and History

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Image: Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) I recently read the 1980 Nobel Lecture (Farrar Straus Giroux, 1981) by Polish poet Czeslaw Mil...
Friday, March 09, 2018

The Vision (3.9.18): When is a church a church?

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Image: Scene from Lord's Day worship at CRBC. Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ...
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Saturday, March 03, 2018

Book Review: Andrew Fuller: Model Pastor-Theologian

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I have posted an audio version of my book review of Paul Brewster's Andrew Fuller: Model Pastor-Theologian (B & H Academic, ...
Friday, March 02, 2018

Book Review: Sing a New Song

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I have uploaded a spoken version of my book review of Joel R. Beeke and Anthony T. Selvaggio, eds, Sing a New Song: Recovering Psalm ...
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The Vision (3.2.18): Never man spake like this man

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Note: Devotion taken from last Sunday's sermon on John 7:40-53 . The officers answered, Never man spake like this man (John 7:4...
Thursday, March 01, 2018

Darwinian-based objections to Markan Posteriority

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Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) not only influenced re-calibration of the interpretation of the historicity of G...
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Friday, February 23, 2018

2018 Virginia Reformed Baptist Youth and Young Adult Conference: May 18-19, 2018

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Image: Scene from 2017 Youth and Young Adult Conference Conference Theme: The Spiritual Disciplines (1 Timothy 4:8). Worship (pe...

The Vision (2.23.18): Rivers of Living Water

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Image: Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe Note: Devotion taken from last Sunday's sermon on John 7:37-39. He that believeth on me, as th...