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Barth and Evangelicals

The theologian I’ve been engaging in 2011 is Karl Barth, and I’ve been chipping away at the Study Edition of Church Dogmatics off and on over the year. I’ve also finished his book on Anselm, which...

September 30, 20112 Comments

Lessons on Preaching from Lloyd-Jones (4)

Some final quotes, which I find liberating and inspiring: “The primary task of the Church and of the Christian minister is the preaching of the Word of God” (19). “The work of preaching is the...

August 2, 2011No Comments

Lessons on Preaching from Lloyd-Jones (3)

The greatest benefit I received from this book is what I would call the aliveness of preaching – by that I mean the vivid sense that preaching is, in the very moment in which it...

August 1, 20112 Comments

Lessons on Preaching from Llloyd-Jones (2)

Lloyd-Jones has also helped me think about the mechanics of sermon preparation. In the past, I think I’ve erred by relying almost exclusively on commentaries in my preparation, in addition of course to prayerful reflection...

July 29, 20111 Comment

Lessons on Preaching from Lloyd-Jones (1)

I’ve been slowly chipping away at Martin Lloyd-Jones Preaching and Preachers this year. In the next few posts, I want to share some of the ways it has helped me. The first has to do...

July 15, 20112 Comments

Barth on Anselm (3): Sola Ratione

I’m about half-way through Barth’s Anselm book. Barth is the theologian I am reading in 2011. Next year it will be Augustine. I’ve chosen Barth because I learn from engaging with him, though where he...

June 13, 2011No Comments

Becoming a Theologian

A background project I’m chipping away at during 2011 is volume 1 of Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics. For Christmas I got the 2010 paperback study edition, which is definitely worth getting over the first edition...

April 7, 20113 Comments

Bonhoeffer (8): Ethics

Two of Bonhoeffer’s most loved writings are The Cost of Discipleship and his Life Together, but his magnum opus was his Ethics. As I was reading Metaxas’ summary of Bonhoeffer’s Ethics on pp. 468-472, it...

March 20, 2011No Comments

Bonhoeffer (7): Repentance Protects Grace

Dietrich Bonhoeffer: “The Gospel is protected by the preaching of repentance which calls sin sin and declares the sinner guilty. The key to loose is protected by the key to bind. The preaching of grace...

March 17, 2011No Comments