This article first appeared on The Gospel Coalition. In his recent book Breaking Bread with the Dead [read TGC’s review], Alan Jacobs offers advice for achieving a “more tranquil mind”—a thing devoutly to be wished. At the heart of the book is the following insight: the more substantially we’re in touch with the past, the more effectivelyContinue reading “Breaking Bread with Calvin and His Institutes”
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Tanzania (2022)
Zanchi On the Go!
The folks over at the Theology on the Go podcast recently invited me to talk about Zanchi and Spiritual Marriage. We had a great time… and since this is “on the go,” we kept the whole conversation under thirty minutes. Here’s the link. You can also find the episode on your favorite podcast platform orContinue reading “Zanchi On the Go!”
5 Lessons TLI’s Formal Team Learned during COVID
This article first appeared on the Training Leaders International website. In spring 2020, as the seminary that TLI’s Formal Team partners with in South Asia was gearing up for the final months of their academic year and preparing to graduate the first cohort of MDiv students, the COVID pandemic hit. The country’s borders immediately closedContinue reading “5 Lessons TLI’s Formal Team Learned during COVID”
WSCal Office Hours
Recently I was invited onto an episode of Office Hours, Westminster Seminary, California’s podcast to discuss my forthcoming translation of Zanchi’s The Spiritual Marriage between Christ and His Church and Every One of the Faithful. It was a good opportunity to connect with R. Scott Clark, my old Church History prof, and to talk talkContinue reading “WSCal Office Hours”
Systematic Theology I: Covenant with Adam (Video 14)
Finally, we come to the end of this set of videos for the Systematic Theology I course. We end with a flourish, discussing the Adamic covenant of works established in Eden. This is a point of theology that has become increasingly compelling to me over the last few decades. What once seemed an interesting ifContinue reading “Systematic Theology I: Covenant with Adam (Video 14)”
Lessons Learned from Reading Calvin’s Institutes
It took nearly six months to make my way through the four books of John Calvin’s justly famous Institutes of the Christian Religion.1 Although I’d read substantial sections of it in seminary, I’d never tackled the whole thing from start to finish. Too often, I finish one book and move onto the next one withoutContinue reading “Lessons Learned from Reading Calvin’s Institutes”
Systematic Theology I: The Image of God (Video 13)
We’re closing in on the end of this series of lectures from the Systematic Theology I course that I taught in S. Asia. It would have been most natural for my portion of the ST sequence to come to an end with the doctrine of God (or Theology Proper, as it’s called), but because ofContinue reading “Systematic Theology I: The Image of God (Video 13)”
Systematic Theology I: Providence & Miracles
We’re coming into the home stretch on this Systematic Theology I course. This video digs into the works of God, focusing on God’s providence and its relationship to things like miracles, concursus, convergence, preservation, and so forth. It turns out that the easy distinctions that we want to make between creation and providence don’t divideContinue reading “Systematic Theology I: Providence & Miracles”
This Splendid Banner: The Missional Vermigli
Just as nothing can equal your name, so we desire that it be both acknowledged and worshiped by all mortals. This will be done if, just as you often rescued your people from grave dangers, so in the present you look upon them, give them strength, and grant them true salvation when the enemies ofContinue reading “This Splendid Banner: The Missional Vermigli”
O'Banions @ Home & Abroad 