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Master, the scribes are getting restless.
Excerpt: Notes Nearing Ninety: Learning to Write Less by Donald Hall (HT: aldaily.com)
I had planned to start teaching A Stronger Servant last week but had to postpone in order to prepare for my new sermon series on wisdom. These sermons and this class should be mutually reinforcing. I’m getting pretty excited about it.
Definition of the wisdom of God:
That perfection of God by which He uses His knowledge for the attainment of His ends in the way that glorifies Him most.
💬 Geerhardus Vos
I just noticed that the Kindle editions of Vos’ Reformed Dogmatics are 80% off right now, only $5.99 per volume! They’re usually about $25/ea. I bought all five and I’m so happy to finally have these.
Want free Greek/Latin lessons taught by an A+ classicist and educator? Check out latinperdiem.com by my friend, David Noe (Calvin College).
In that last Gregory quote, Gregory was commenting on the book of Jonah. I thought I was done preaching on Jonah for now, but a farmer asked me: Aren’t you going to preach on the last four words, “and also much cattle”? So, one more week. 😊
I’ll have whatever he’s having tonight 👉 @ayjay
For God alone of all things cannot be escaped from or contended with; if He wills to seize and bring them under His hand, He outstrips the swift, He outwits the wise, He overthrows the strong, He abases the lofty, He subdues rashness, He represses power.
💬 Gregory of Nazianzus
📚 I loved Duane Litfin’s big-picture intro to Greco-Roman rhetoric in part one of this book. I’ve read a lot of other books on both ancient and modern rhetoric; I wished had read this one first. Oh well, now to part two: preaching and rhetoric according to Paul.
My wife just turned a big dream into a reality and finished painting the first of THREE large murals at Tucson Dance Academy. So proud of her! See the progress shots at Della Chelpka Arts. She’s amazing! 🤩
It would be better for us to talk about attributes of canonicty instead of criteria of canonicty. Michael Kruger gives reasons for this in his book Canon Revisited, which he summarized on his blog today.
📚 Finished reading: Divine Covenants and Moral Order: A Biblical Theology of Natural Law by David VanDrunen. Theologians and ethicists, read this book!
Google has released its 2018 Scholar Metrics. You can see the most-cited articles from among the journals indexed by Google from Jan 2013 to July 2018. Here are the top 20 journals matching “theology” and the top 20 for “religion”.
A new version of the Westminster Shorter Catechism is under way. And anyone can help. 🚀
⛪️ In my recent sermon on Psalm 139, I compare Jonah’s feelings about the presence of God to David’s. You can learn a lot about true spirituality this way.
“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple?”
— Wisdom in Proverbs 1:22