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Study Plans

I’ve been planning out a tentative schedule for the structure of my PhD. Here’s what its looking like so far, with notes below: Fall 2012: seminar on the Doctrine of the Atonement, and Latin Winter...

October 30, 20125 Comments

Vacation

For the past week Esther and I have been in Tennessee. We spent a few days in Knoxville for a wedding, and then a few more at my parents’ house near Nashville. It is so...

October 12, 20122 Comments

The Gospel Defines Contextualization

From D.A. Carson’s The Cross and Christian Ministry: Leadership Lessons from I Corinthians (Baker 1993): “When the pressure to ‘contextualize’ the gospel jeopardizes the message of the cross by inflating human egos, the cultural pressures...

September 17, 2012No Comments

Thoughts on Gay Marriage

I’ve been thinking about the issue of gay marriage lately. It seems like an issue that is going to be an increasingly divisive one in our culture, and in other post-Christian cultures, as secular and...

September 13, 20125 Comments

Latin Worship

My preparation for my Latin test last week required me to spend a lot of time in the “Further Readings” at the end of Collins’ A Primer on Ecclesiastical Latin. There were selections from the...

September 6, 20122 Comments

Laboratory

Sometimes the Christian idea that there is life after death can be tough for people in our cultural setting to accept. I think the resurrection of Jesus provides the ultimate basis for the Christian hope,...

July 31, 20121 Comment

Sucking up Cares Like a Leech

I’ve heard my Dad reference this Martin Luther quote several times, and just saw it again in an article by my brother Eric on I Kings 19. I love the attitude of cheerful optimism amidst...

May 5, 2012No Comments

Who Will Deliver Us?

I am taking the youth staff through Paul Zahl’s Who Will Deliver Us? (Wipf and Stock, 1983). Its a great book, honest and vivid and courageous in applying the gospel to our deepest emotional struggles....

April 10, 20121 Comment

Ecclesiastical Latin

A PhD in historical theology at Fuller requires reading competence in Greek, Hebrew, Latin, German, and French. I’m hoping to take my Latin placement exam before I start in August, so I’ve started working through...

March 29, 20127 Comments