Talks

Here’s a talk I gave at the annual Torrey Memorial Bible Conference at Biola (Oct 8, 2025). The conference theme commended the virtue of being “Childlike,” and I developed that idea by sketching out a practical…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

In late 2021, Torrey Honors College joined the 100 Days of Dante project led by Baylor Honors College and Dr. Matt Anderson. Billed as “the world’s largest Dante reading group,” 100 Days of Dante brought together…

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…

Professors from Torrey Honors College got to participate in “the world’s largest Dante reading group,” in collaboration with Baylor Honors College (see here for a little more info, or go to 100daysofdante.com for absolutely everything). I…

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…

Michael Horton and Fred Sanders discuss a growing trend to pull away from classical theism and move toward a more immanent view of God, seeing him as evolving throughout the course of history.