2005-11-17T07:35:52-06:00

Our entire Dept is attending the SBL/AAR meetings this weekend in Philadelphia. I’ll be giving a paper in response to James D.G. Dunn’s Jesus Remembered on Friday morning at the ETS meetings, and then Saturday morning I’ll respond to John Miller’s book, Jesus at Thirty. It looks like we’ll have access to the internet in our room so I’ll try to keep up. Read more

2005-11-17T07:34:04-06:00

One of my children was in the habit, as a child, of saying this: “I mean it.” When challenged a little more: “I really mean it.” And when a little more: “I really, really mean it.” Which means, when saying “I mean it” it was not fully meant. Jesus summoned those who wanted to follow him to be utterly honest. |inline Read more

2005-11-16T22:47:49-06:00

How about that? It is the 16th and it just dawned on me that you are still three years older! Read more

2005-11-16T10:16:14-06:00

We have now received over 150 applications for our advertised opening in the Biblical and Theological Studies Department. We will not be interviewing at the SBL/AAR meetings in Philadelphia this weekend, but are hoping to contact in mid-December those who will be invited to campus. With this many applications our process has been slowed down. Read more

2005-11-16T09:05:09-06:00

This week we had Professor Donald A. Hagner on campus for the Zarley Lectures in biblical theology. Some local pastors stopped in, but mostly it was a chapel filled with students. Professor Hagner spoke on Jewish-Christian relations in light of both Paul’s theology and the quest for the historical Jesus. |inline Read more

2005-11-16T08:40:48-06:00

For me, the most important thing about a happy marriage is that husbands and wives be best friends — with no serious rival to that friendship. Kris and I have been married for 32 years; we were grade school sweethearts and we started “officially” dating when we were sophomores in high school, and we are best friends and have been our entire marriage. This is the most important reason why we love one another — so I think. Because we... Read more

2005-11-15T09:03:55-06:00

For Pastors and churches that used the Jesus Creed for a Bible study or more in your church (this is not for individuals who used this, but for churches): If you would like to be in the “Pastor’s Circle” for our forthcoming books, please send the following to [email protected]: Name Church’s name or Organization’s name: Address: Phone number: E-mail address: Website address: Read more

2005-11-15T09:03:51-06:00

As Jesus revealed that murder begins with anger, and that murder is expressed in anger, labeling, and damning, so Jesus contends in his summons for others to follow him that adultery, too, is a matter of the heart. The physical desire of another by a married person is adultery. There is no reason to play around here with niceties, Jesus is saying, commitment to one’s spouse is a heart issue. Matt 5:27-30 |inline Read more

2005-11-15T08:51:17-06:00

Doug Pagitt’s new book, Body Prayer: The Posture of Intimacy with God, just came out, I was sent a copy, and I wish to record some brief thoughts. |inline Read more

2005-11-14T08:44:18-06:00

My first encounter with John Piper was memorable. I now recall it was the first faculty retreat I was at Trinity, and we were for the day at a hotel in Mundelein. John Piper addressed the faculty on the trivialization of God in Arminianism. Though I did not then, and do not now, consider myself an Arminian — but an Anabaptist, I was not a little bit surprised when Stuart Hackett, a professor of philosophy, stood up at the back... Read more

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