Jesus rose from the dead. We believe it, but now what? We are now in the second week of Easter. The celebration known as Easter is not just one day, but it is a season, a seven-week celebration of living life in light of the …
Read MoreDiscussion on the Trinity: Video Clips
The following clips are from a live discussion I had with Pastor Brian Zahnd at his church, Word of Life Church in St. Joseph, Missouri, on Sunday morning, March 22, 2009. I do mention my book Shape Shifters a few times. The book uses the …
Read MoreTalking About the Trinity
Last weekend, I had the privilege of speaking at Word of Life Church in St. Joseph, Missouri in a pretty unique format. WOLC’s pastor, Brian Zahnd, set up a “kitchen table” interview with me, where he asked me questions about the Trinity. This was a …
Read MoreConcomitant Individualism
Concomitant. Now that is a good word. Don’t worry, I didn’t know what this word meant either until I looked it up today, but it is a good word. Worth adding to your vocabulary. Con-com-itant: (adj.) accompanying especially in a subordinate or incidental way [Dictionary] …
Read MoreWho is the God of the Sermon?
I finished reading Christian Preaching: A Trinitarian Theology of Proclamation by Michael Pasquarello and he has got me thinking about the nature of preaching. Pasquarello is a professor at Asbury and I took a doctor of ministry class with him called “The Trinity and Preaching.” …
Read MoreThe Holy Spirit as a divine person
In my previous post I expressed my dislike for the age-old theological position that the Father and Son have this great relationship and the Spirit is merely the bond of love between them. I think this depersonalizes who the Holy Spirit is. Both the Scripture …
Read More10,000 Hits and Trinitarian Worship
Today I officially recorded 10,000 hits on my blog. I have had the blog up since March 2006. Thanks to all of those who have stopped by. I know that hits are not the best measure of web exposure. (Many of those hits are made …
Read MoreExperiencing the Trinity
For a couple of months, I felt like I was hocking Peter Scazerro’s Emotionally Healthy Spirituality wherever I was going. Through last fall and into the New Year, I was telling everyone to read his book. I preached three sermons that were inspired by it. …
Read MoreRescue, the Trinity & Christ our Example
On the iPod this morning: Battle Cry by Michael Gungor. He was the worship leader at the church Jenni and I attended in Tulsa in the late 90s. He is a phenomenal guitar player and he has developed into a great worship leader. He is …
Read MoreWhy I am a Trinitarian Christian
The Trinity is one of the unifying doctrines between the various branches of the Christian faith. We may disagree on minor points of theology, but for the most part the Christian God has been proclaimed by Christian people as one God revealed in three persons—the …
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