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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…
“God is God for God: Aseity, Inseity, and Proseity in Evangelical Perspective”
Oliver Crisp and Paul Nimmo have edited a set of papers from the 2024 Scottish Dogmatics Conference, under the volume title The God who is For Us (Zondervan Academic, 2025). My contribution to the volume is…
The Nicene Line as Structural Principle for Christian Doctrine
For the 1700th anniversary of the council of Nicaea, the International Journal of Systematic Theology has published a set of articles on the theology of Nicaea as an element in contemporary theology. My contribution explains how…
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…
The Doctrine of God: Fullness and Work
For a symposium on faith and work, I wrote an article about the doctrine of God. The central idea is that Christians confess God to be infinitely abundant and full, and that this view of God…
Foreword to Hames’ Cyril of Alexandria: His Life & Impact
Daniel Hames, Cyril of Alexandria: His Life and Impact (Christian Focus, 2024). In the Early Church Fathers series, edited by Michael A.G. Haykin and Shawn J. Wilhite. Foreword by Fred Sanders Reputations rise and fall, but…
The Eternal Love of Godfrom Thaddeus Williams' Revering God
My Biola colleague Thaddeus Williams invited me to write a short, personal account of how the truth of the Trinity had affected my life. The brief report (less than a thousand words) was one of a…
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…
“Only Begotten Son: The Doctrinal Functions of Eternal Generation”
Matthew Barrett has edited a large set of essays On Classical Trinitarianism: Retrieving the Nicene Doctrine of the Triune God (IVP Academic, 2024). My contribution to the volume is chapter 24, on the doctrine of eternal…
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…
10 Things You Should Know About the Holy Spirit
1. If you know the doctrine of the Trinity, you already know the most important things about the Holy Spirit. Christians confess that the one God eternally exists as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. This is…
