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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…
“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…
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…
Polar Opposite Misunderstandings of the Holy SpiritSub-personal or Hyper-personalized
A three-minute video about two ways of misunderstanding the Spirit’s personhood.
Foreword to Anderson’s Called into Questions
Matthew Lee Anderson has written a book on the nature of questions in the life of faith, and I commend it to you. In fact, I commend it so much that I wrote a couple pages…
Pauline Trinitarianism from The Trinity in the Canon
Brandon Smith has edited an impressive set of essays on the Biblical doctrine of the Trinity, entitled The Trinity in the Canon (B&H, 2023). Weighing in at 15 chapters in 483 pages, the volume is a…
Why Christmas is Bigger than EasterThe Incarnation exists for the Atonement, but it is also so much more.
Wait … is this actually on the Incarnation? If you take up Athanasius’s fourth-century classic On the Incarnation for your Advent or Christmas reading, you’ll likely find yourself asking this very question. For you’ll soon make the discovery that…
To Be God is to Be HappyEnjoying Divine Blessedness
When Paul says, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us,” he uses the same word twice: blessed (Ephesians 1:3). A moment’s thought, however, shows that God blesses us altogether differently…
Review of Roger Olson’s Against Liberal TheologyA Nonconservative’s Plea to Those Leaving Conservative Churches
In the preface of Roger Olson’s new book, Against Liberal Theology, we meet a particular type of exvangelical all too familiar in this age of disillusionment and deconstruction. As Olson describes this tribe, “They grew up in…
Foreword to Reasoner’s Fundamental Wesleyan Systematic Theology, Volume 3
Victor Paul Reasoner of the Fundamental Wesleyan Society has published a three-volume systematic theology from the conservative Wesleyan perspective. Vic asked me to write a foreword for one of the volumes, and I was glad to…
Trinity and Salvation (Podcast)
Sam Fornecker of the Ridley Institute talks with me about the main ideas of my book, Fountain of Salvation. I think this conversation does a good job placing salvation under the trinitarian skylight that opens up…
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…
Incorruptible Trinity: Sketch of a Doctrine
Abstract: The doctrine of divine incorruptibility deserves more focused attention than it has generally received, especially in the modern period. This article draws the doctrine from its Scriptural sources (especially making use of the phthora word-group)…
Don’t Skip Theology’s Middle Ground
It’s true that evangelical Christians and churches need to get back to the riches of the earliest Christian theology. Gavin Ortlund makes an eloquent case for this in his book Theological Retrieval for Evangelicals: Why We Need…
Father Son, & Spirit: Does it Matter?
An hour-long interview with the guys at the Laymen’s Lounge, who asked me in a variety of ways why the Trinity matters for Christians in ordinary life.
Pannenberg’s Trinitarian Theology (from Theology for the Future)
Andrew Hollingsworth has edited a set of ten chapters on Theology for the Future: The Enduring Promise of Wolfhart Pannenberg, with a foreword by Friederike Nüssel and an afterword by Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen. I wrote the fifth…