Category: religion
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Theology That Breaks and Heals: Learning to Write with Puritan Depth
Read essay: Theology That Breaks and Heals: Learning to Write with Puritan DepthThe Puritans had no patience for theology that didn’t break the heart or heal it. For them, doctrines weren’t just true. Doctrines were soul-shaping.…
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God Is Our Refuge and Strength: Finding Warmth in Psalm 46
Read essay: God Is Our Refuge and Strength: Finding Warmth in Psalm 46What do you do when you flip the switch and nothing happens? When the heat does not come on. When the pipes stay dry.…
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Leaving, Dwelling, and Returning
Read essay: Leaving, Dwelling, and ReturningLexical Repetition, Narrative Architecture, and Covenant Movement in Genesis The apparent tension between God’s command to Abraham to leave his land and kindred and…
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Did You Wake Up Feeling Angry or Blessed??
Read essay: Did You Wake Up Feeling Angry or Blessed??Most of us did not wake up planning to be angry. We woke up to a screen. Before coffee, before prayer, before hearing a…
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The God of Promises
Read essay: The God of PromisesGenesis 21 does not begin with Isaac. It begins with God. “The Lord visited Sarah as he had said.” That sentence is doing more…
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Happiness or Blessedness???
Read essay: Happiness or Blessedness???The world is focused on happiness. It markets it, medicates it, optimizes it, curates it. Yet the more loudly we speak about happiness, the…
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“That God May Be All in All”: Messianic Subjection and Trinitarian Consummation in 1 Corinthians 15:28
Read essay: “That God May Be All in All”: Messianic Subjection and Trinitarian Consummation in 1 Corinthians 15:28First Corinthians 15:28 has long been a crux interpretum for Christology and Trinitarian theology. Paul’s claim that “the Son himself will be subjected” has…
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The Church as the Visible People of God: An Exploration of Ecclesiology
Read essay: The Church as the Visible People of God: An Exploration of EcclesiologyBefore the church ever gathers, organizes, sings, or sends, God has already acted. The church is not a humanly devised institution. It is a…
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Was There An Empty Seat in Heaven
Read essay: Was There An Empty Seat in HeavenDid heaven have an empty seat when Christ was born in Mary’s womb? Was the throne vacant when the Son cried in the manger?…
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The Triune Life as the Epitome of Blessedness
Read essay: The Triune Life as the Epitome of BlessednessDivine blessedness is not a solitary perfection. It is the eternal, relational joy of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and the fountain of every…
