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“Scripture is Wise Even In Its Silence”
(For the sermon that this is an excerpt from, go here.) God communicates. He speaks loudly sometimes, taking solemn oaths. He hints sometimes, giving us just enough information to draw us in. But what about God’s silence? … [Read More...]
Psssst: Melchizedek!
(For the sermon that this is an excerpt from, go here.) The book of Hebrews is a work that trains us to hear the voice of God when we read Scripture. And it not only trains us to hear God's voice, it trains us to focus … [Read More...]
God Swears He’s Telling the Truth
(For the sermon that this is an excerpt from, go here) Here’s our last baby step in learning to hear God speak: We’ve overheard God. We’ve overheard the Trinity speaking in OT QUOTES. We know it’s about salvation. The … [Read More...]
The Trinity as Old Testament Book Club
(For the sermon that this is an excerpt from, go here) We can learn to read the Bible so well that we overhear in it what the Father and Son say to each other. Does that sound too mystical? Learning to overhear the Trinity's … [Read More...]
Hearing God: Start by Overhearing
This is a section from a sermon I preached at my home church, Grace Evangelical Free Church in La Mirada, as we work our way through the book of Hebrews. I got to do chapter 7, on Melchizedek, and I presented it as an opportunity … [Read More...]
Schleiermacher was Wrong
As I celebrated the graduation of the Torrey Honors Institute class of 2013, I took some time to think back on significant times I had shared with them. I thought of the Christmas party at my house their freshman year and the … [Read More...]
Eno Snaisehpe (Ephesians One Backwards)
What would it take to lose your salvation? Sometimes I think the fact that we can pose that question in such a short sentence, with so few words, is part of the problem of talking about the question well. The brevity of the … [Read More...]
Nomina Sacra as Theological Claim
In his remarkable book The Divine Name(s) and the Holy Trinity, Kendall Soulen pays very close attention to the way the revealed name of God (the Tetragrammaton) functions in the Bible and in Christian theology. If you're … [Read More...]
The Four Causes of Boethius’ Book
In Thomas Aquinas' commentary on Boethius' De Trinitate, Thomas brings his favorite Aristotelian categories to bear on book reviewing. While explaining Boethius' preface, Thomas says that Boethius "sets forth... the four … [Read More...]
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