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The Nicene Line ExplainedThis is the Most Important Line in Christian Theology

This is from the Spring 2025 DC-area conference called The Trinity: 1700 Years After Nicaea, sponsored by Credo and Sola Media. Thanks to Sola for selecting this portion, and editing it well. (This resource works best…

Retrieving Nicaea for Evangelicals2025 Hobbs Lecture, Oklahoma Baptist University

I was invited to give the 2025 Hobbs Lecture at Oklahoma Baptist University, on the topic of retrieving Nicaea for evangelicals. The lecture was followed by a symposium featuring lots of excellent Baptist theologians handling the…

Confessing the Triune God; Celebrating the Nicene CreedSacramento Gospel Conference 2025

Great conference at Immanuel Baptist Church in Sacramento, CA. James Dolezal and I got to tag-team our way through a half-dozen lectures on history and doctrine. Here are my three, plus a Q&A session with pastor…

The Trinity Changes Everything

I didn’t come up with the subtitle to The Deep Things of God, but I like it: “How the Trinity Changes Everything.” Michael Easley picked up on the claim made by that subtitle, and talked with…

True God from True GodThe Trinity: 1700 Years After Nicaea Conference, DC

Here’s video from my talk at the Trinity conference in the DC area, sponsored by Credo Magazine and Sola Media. We split up the sections of the Nicene Creed and I got to cover “True God…

Panel Discussion at Bethlehem

I came to this conference to speak about the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, which I did. But it also turned out that I was pretty conspicuously the most unCalvinist theologian at the event, so my…

The Holy Spirit (Bethlehem Conference)Theology for Everyone Conference, Bethlehem College and Seminary

Bethlehem College and Seminary had a good idea for a theology conference: they invited authors from Crossway’s Short Studies in Systematic Theology series to come together and present the big ideas from their little books. I…

What Not to Read: Bad Theology

On April 1 (no joke) 2025, I spoke at Lewis House, a Christian study center in Lexington, KY. Derek King invited me to talk about bad books and harmful reading. It’s an important topic, and I…

Podcast-ioque with Gavin Ortlund

I love the doctrine of the Holy Spirit’s eternal procession, and furthermore I think the question of the Son’s involvement in that procession is important. But I also think it’s important not to fuss about it…

Think Biblically on the Holy Spirit

Here’s my appearance on Sean McDowell and Scott Rae’s Think Biblically podcast. Actually I think this is the cooler edit for Sean’s YouTube channel.

The Doctrine of the Son: Trinitarian Christology for the Sake of the Gospel2024 Deere-Hester Lecture at Gateway Seminary

I was invited to give the 2024 Deere-Hester lecture at Gateway Seminary in Ontario, California. I’ve collaborated with Gateway faculty and friends on several projects over the years, and was honored to make the trip and…

Polar Opposite Misunderstandings of the Holy SpiritSub-personal or Hyper-personalized

A three-minute video about two ways of misunderstanding the Spirit’s personhood.

The Trinity is Not a Problem!

I went on Sean McDowell’s podcast to field apologetics-oriented questions about the Trinity.

The Trinity & Salvation (Conference Video)

Here’s video of a 30-minute talk I gave at First Baptist Alcoa (Alcoa, TN) on February 12, 2022. The whole event was well planned by Cody Barnhart. One of the best things about it was getting…

“Clouds Will Never go Behind the Moon”Discussing the Trinity

Here’s a conversation with Gary Wilkerson about how, as a Christian, you can know the Trinity without knowing you know the Trinity. Sounds confusing because it is; it’s much better to know that you know. View…

Let the Mysteries of God Move You to Praise

A conversation on the incomprehensibility of God, especially as it relates to the Trinity. View it at Youtube, or click over to World Challenge’s site which has a good page that includes the video, an introduction,…

Hilary of Poitiers’ On the Trinity

I commend the Latin pro-Nicene theologian Hilary of Poitiers. He wrote a long treatise On the Trinity which was the assigned text for a Patristics reading group (Ad Fontes at Holy Joys) that invited me to…

Disciples of the Trinity

Here is a 2021 talk I gave, with some Q & A at the end, about how the simplicity of discipleship and the depth of trinitarianism belong together. The talk was for a church group, from…