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@HobbsOBU chair & theology/early Christianity prof at @OBUnews • @BaptistRenewal co-founder • Pessimistic Dallas sports fan

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Taught by God: Ancient Hermeneutics for the Modern Church is out from @BHAcademic ! I propose three common interpretive sensibilities from patristics to Reformers: 1. The way the words go 2. Theological/christological unity 3. Communion with God Get it:

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Don’t move too quickly past a life well lived. Keller’s decades-long ministry was spent in relative obscurity in a rural church, less obscurity in a large church in the city, and then “celebrity.” By all accounts, not a hint of moral scandal. To me, that’s his greatest legacy.

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Much like “cage stage” Calvinism was a danger for us excitable young/future pastors and theologians 15 years ago, I hope we are careful to avoid a cage stage theological retrieval in the next generation. Here are a few signs of cage stage theology from a former practitioner:

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Goodness gracious, I’m absolutely overwhelmed by all the tweets, DMs, texts, etc. Y’all are far too kind! Maybe after the kids go to bed tonight, I’ll try to share some thoughts for those interested. It’s been a whirlwind of a summer for us, to say the least.

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We are excited to announce that Dr. Brandon Smith will join the OBU faculty as associate professor of theology and early Christianity and chair of the Herschel H. Hobbs School of Theology and Ministry this spring. Read More Here: Welcome Dr. Smith!

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Knox William has arrived! Mommy and baby are doing great. Grace upon grace.

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They’re here! Preorder and all your dreams will come true:

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Pro tip for PhD students presenting at conferences: You don’t have to make big claims or take down a senior scholar to prove yourself. Just make a straightforward, modest claim from your research that’s defensible & allows experts in the room to help you think more deeply about.

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After 25 years of spending time with, pastoring, serving with, and teaching your average everyday Christians around the country, I’m convinced of one thing: Most Christians are not as angry and unsettled as the loud social media voices who benefit from anger want you to believe.

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This fall from @crossway ! @M_Y_Emerson

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It's release day for this little guy! Only 128pp, primarily for churches & classrooms. My prayer is that when introducing yourself & others to the Trinity, this will help produce deep biblical roots. You can see more info, endorsements, etc. here:

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This is an absolute masterclass by @drmoore in discussing faith with a skeptic at NYT. Intellectually engaging, epistemically humble and, best of all, full of the unadulterated gospel.

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Opinion | A Christmas Conversation About Christ (Published 2022)

“Jesus loves New York Times readers, too.”

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Don’t apologize for being a Baptist. Don’t overreact to weaknesses & look to other traditions as somehow smarter/deeper/more perfect. Baptists have a rich heritage from both the whole Christian tradition & our Baptist history. Start with these @BaptistRenewal reading lists:

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Bible/seminary students are easily radicalized. Their (good) zeal for sound theology/interpretation doesn’t always correspond with proper maturity. Aside from basic Christian virtues of humility & peace, teachers ought to be careful with their rhetoric for their students’ sakes.

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My Black Friday gift is seeing my next book for preorder! In Taught by God, I propose three common interpretive sensibilities from patristics to Reformers: 1. The way the words go 2. Theological/christological unity 3. Personal/ecclesial transformation

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One man’s “Baptists just borrow good theology from other traditions” is another man’s “Baptists have been historically more catholic and less willing to drown other traditions over dissent.”

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@sometimesalight My mom got mocked in front of me when I was a kid for buying cube steaks with her EBT card because she was “wasting people’s taxes.” She used those cube steaks to make “cracker steaks”—steaks rolled in saltine crackers—because it felt like she was making us something fancy

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The Amazon preorder page for “The Biblical Trinity” from @LexhamPress is live! Preview the book & see endorsements from @scottrswain , Thomas Joseph White, Duby, @albpeeler , @adividu , @TrevinWax , & @gavinortlund . 128pp for pastors, laypeople, & students.

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She’s live, in the flesh, and only $21 at the @ivpacademic booth! #ETS2022 #ETS22

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In all my years in pastoral ministry, training laypeople/future ministers in the church/academy, & traveling the world with a Bible translation, I'm convinced: Your average Christian defaults toward orthodoxy & simply needs help confessing more deeply what they already believe.

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They’re (very unexpectedly) here! @LexhamPress did a bang-up job with the jacketed cover. 😍😍😍 Preorder:

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This is the last day my Cedarville office will look like this before I begin packing up. This has been a wonderful office for student mentoring, colleague trolling, writing and research, and general academic shenanigans. Will miss it dearly!

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This is your regular reminder that most people in the church are largely ignorant of the theological hobbyhorses you think are the center of Christianity, whether you’re right or not. Develop a healthy theological triage and a pastoral heart before you try to lead them.

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Looks like @BHAcademic has the page live (and a great pre-order price!) for my edited volume, "The Trinity in the Canon." 500pp from some of the best scholars in the world. Seriously, check out that TOC. 😍

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Christians are sometimes the most vicious to one another. I’ve experienced this myself in recent months & so have several friends. Frankly it’s sinful. Obviously so. And it’s most obvious in those who lack the wisdom to distinguish between critique/correction & division/slander.

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Wow! Big congrats to all the excellent contributors who made this book great.

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One of the coolest things @ivpacademic does is send framed covers to their authors. Finally received mine!

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I have 5 books releasing 2022-2024 (3 author, 1 co-author, 1 editor). It’s a lot. Too much for a 38yo tbh. But a few have asked, “How the heck did you have time for this?” For fun, I thought I’d tell the story of each & offer tips I’ve learned along the way. Hope it helps! 🧵

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😍😍😍😍😍 Preorder:

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The longer you’re in academia, the more you realize how much publishing and writing is driven by interpersonal rivalry and/or faddish attention-seeking. Twitter has made it worse. Pray for your own heart, find friends who hold you accountable, & don’t get caught in the machine.

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Always appreciate all the public encouragement I get

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They’re here! 500pp of essays from world-class scholars on seeing Trinitarian theology as rooted in the canonical story of Scripture & central to the church. You can preorder & see a preview at @Lifeway () or preorder on Amazon ()

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3. We narrow orthodoxy to a particular set of categories that we neatly define, creating a type of fundamentalism that eschews generous orthodoxy for a select “in” crowd reminiscent of a high school clique.

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Maybe the best opener to an academic book that I’ve ever read. The upshot: we’ve lost Scripture as *Scripture* when we turn it into another mere artifact to investigate. ()

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1. A disdain for our spiritual and theological forbears/heroes/mentors. We are quick to critique or even slander those who came before us — those who taught us! — because we now feel we’ve moved beyond them.

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Well, I guess this is really real. Things are ramping up quickly as I wind down at Cedarville and hit the ground running at @HobbsOBU . Grateful for the Lord’s kindness in a smooth move, great start for the kids at a new school, and the impending arrival of our first son!

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Me at 8:30: ok, all three girls are dressed and ready to go, we’re gonna be super early for the 9:00 service Smith minivan at 8:58:

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I was struck today by the reality that all of the senseless division between brothers & sisters in Christ will be eradicated in the new creation. We will live in fellowship of unity & forgiveness for all eternity, thanks to the One who overcomes our rivalries. Come, Lord Jesus!

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It's release day for "The Trinity in the Book of Revelation"! Here's the @ivpacademic page with description, sample chapter, TOC, & endorsements from @DrTomSchreiner , @mbird12 , @FredFredSanders , @wesleyhill , @MadisonPierce , @M_Y_Emerson , Ephraim Radner.

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With its vivid imagery and rich prophetic language, the book of Revelation confronts and confuses readers perhaps more than any other Biblical book. Brandon Smith brings clarity by reading Revelation...

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The three C's of creeds: 1. Canonical -- they seek to summarize large swaths of Scripture 2. Contextual -- they were developed in response to certain specific factors, so they don't speak to all things 3. Catechetical -- they help the Church confess important truths rightly

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2. Relatedly, we create disciples who are also cynical of their heroes and think that decades of faithful ministry are now, or always have been, worthless and have no benefit to the academy/church. They begin to question their own pastors, parents, etc. for being too “shallow.”

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Men, what is stopping you from confessing like this

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Today is release today! “The Trinity in the Canon” is a collection of essays on methodology, exegesis, and the church. We hope this is a resource for pastors, students, and fellow scholars. Get one here: )

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Thinking back to #1 -2 above, I saw someone say on Twitter once (can’t remember who!): “I disagree with <X theologian> now, but I’m only able to disagree because he made me love theology in the first place.” Seems like the right way to honor those who came before us.

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Say hello to Luka, a very late surprise Christmas present for the girls.

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I grew up: pagan I now worship: Baptist I could see myself becoming: Even. More. Baptist.

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Eric Hoke (is writing a book).

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I grew up: assemblies of God I now worship in: SBC I could myself becoming: Anglican Your turn.

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Today is my first day at @obunews as Chair of @HobbsOBU and Associate Professor of Theology & Early Christianity. Some prayer requests: 1. Pray for our family. It's been a whirlwind week: 3 girls starting at a new school, pregnant wife, U-Haul pods still haven't arrived, etc.

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One of the most difficult lessons to learn—that we should always be learning—is that zeal often precedes wisdom but rarely begets it. In zeal, we speak about things we don’t understand or we speak about true things in false ways. Wisdom matures alongside humility and gentleness.

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The Center for Baptist Renewal is a unity movement within Baptist life that seeks to resource Baptists with resources from the Christian tradition for the renewal of Baptist faith and practice. Check us out! @BaptistRenewal

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My @obunews office is finally (nearly) unpacked!

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5. We divide the church rather than unite the church, all under the guise of defending “orthodoxy.”

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The uncomfortable truth about Christian institutional leadership is that many people get there by stepping on necks. And you can usually tell who those people are. And almost invariably, the most trustworthy ones are often the ones who weren’t angling for their positions.

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Real leadership in evangelicalism is happening in local churches, institutions, homes, and neighborhoods, mostly among people you’ve never heard of. Social media has a place, but many “thought leaders” here are lone wolves building brands more than building lasting change.

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The best way to get attention, build a following, and sell books is to discredit people closest to your corner and thus rally people to yourself. This is the world’s way, not Christ’s way, of leading and serving the Church.

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4. A tendency toward personal brand-building that makes us self-appointed saviors of orthodoxy. To protect said brand, we start creating history in our own image, anachronistically and/or shallowly argued that past theologians agree with all of our little pet nuances.

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Theological retrieval: faithful & careful historical theology with a touch of recovery and/or corrective for today’s church. Not theological retrieval: pillaging & weaponizing the past to divide the church and/or takedown everyone/everything we dislike in today’s church.

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There’s nothing hip and trendy and Instagrammy about the quiet, offline life of devotion to the Lord, faithfulness to your family, service to your church, and chit-chatting with a lost neighbor over the fence, but the Lord sees and will reward.

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It’s release day for Taught by God: Ancient Hermeneutics for the Modern Church from @BHAcademic ! Order, see a preview, & see endorsements from @FrJohnBehr , @VanhoozerKevin , @DrJTPennington , @MatthewWBates , & more: Amazon link:

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In Taught by God, theologian Brandon D. Smith invites modern Christians to rediscover the early church’s approach to biblical interpretation, not just as an historical relic but as a vibrant means of...

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WITHOUT GOOGLING Name a famous historic battle.

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Over at @TGC , I wrote a semi-autobiographical reflection on “cage stage” theology with signs that you might be in the cage, and hope from Paul for better things ahead. Thanks to @MattSmethurst for the invite to write it!

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4 Signs You Might Be in the Cage Stage

How are you doing at loving your (theological) neighbor?

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A big happy birthday to @FredFredSanders ! He has been a major encouragement to me over the years, and I’m looking forward to some things he and I have cooking in the coming years (y’all are gonna love it). In the meantime, here’s us having the time of our lives together at IBR.

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Just FYI: My new book, "The Biblical Trinity" ( @LexhamPress ) releases May 24, but appears to be already shipping from Amazon. Feel free to go ahead and get a copy and offer a review. Thanks!

The Biblical Trinity: Encountering the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in Scripture

The Biblical Trinity: Encountering the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in Scripture

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Debating on Twitter

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You don’t really know how brutal a flooded house is until you have to itemize nearly every one of a six-year-old girl’s pieces of clothing for the insurance claim.

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You could have all kinds of resolutions for 2024, but maybe we should all start with these: - read your Bible & pray daily - fast regularly - give generously - love your spouse & kids sacrificially - serve your church & neighbor faithfully - work tirelessly - laugh loudly

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We all have a long way to go. Sin is always creeping. But beware us vs. them theologians who frame all discourse around their role in saving you from an enemy (whether a person or a generic “them”).

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Just a selection of the excellent recent work from my @cedarville colleagues. Everything from new translations of Aquinas to OT commentaries to biblical & systematic theology to missions & ministry. We have an embarrassment of riches in our Bible & theology school.

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Happy birthday to @mbird12 . A doktorvater, a mentor, and a friend. We disagree, we troll, and we pray for one another—a great combination. Mike has done as much for my academic career as anybody on earth, and I am beyond grateful for him!

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Be patient and kind toward people who are spiritually immature and/or theologically ignorant. Be as patient and kind as you wanted people to be when it was you.

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The church fathers get dragged into a lot of fights these days. Here are a few common examples I’ve come across wherein the church fathers can be used improperly in order to win a modern fight. 🧵

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She’s a beaut. You can preorder and see a preview at Lifeway () or preorder on Amazon ().

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IMO people don’t always lose credibility with a poor theological argument. But people always lose credibility when they mock & attempt to “cancel” a faithful Christian who made the poor argument. I’m less wary of those I disagree with & more wary of those who disagree this way.

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There’s an obvious correlation between the desire to be the center of attention & divisiveness. One of the best ways to feed that desire is to manufacture division by identifying enemies & gathering groupies. But this isn’t how Christians are called to live together.

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Joined an SBC church this last weekend for the 1st time since 2019. Working at an SBC school again. Prepping for state/national annual mtgs again. I reminded of both the things that frustrated me so much and also the things that I truly missed. Welcome to denominationalism.

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Happy to finally have a copy of this much-needed work! Don’t tell him I said this, but @chedspellman is one of the most gifted scholars I know. This work is a good demonstration of the breadth of his biblical, theological, & historical abilities. Buy it:

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Good to see seasoned Baptist scholars like Wellum patiently producing magnum opus-like work! ()

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My forthcoming edited book from @BHAcademic , “The Trinity in the Canon,” is 25% off at @Lifeway .com! Feat. @FredFredSanders , @h_a_thomas , @DrTomSchreiner , @scottrswain , @M_Y_Emerson , @MusingsOnChrist , @MadisonPierce , @DrJTPennington , @kswhitfield , more.

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The Trinity in the Canon | Lifeway

In The Trinity in the Canon, over a dozen evangelical scholars help readers understand the fundamental subject of Scripture: the triune God who encounters the church

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Fun to see the new book in the @LexhamPress catalog! Preorder here:

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Enjoyed presenting in a session in which I didn’t belong with Mark Gignilliat, @FredFredSanders , @albpeeler , and @bobby_jamieson at @IBRBBR #SBLAAR . The real encouragement for me was a packed house discussing the important relationship between theology and exegesis!

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I’m not sure we can overemphasize the need for humility. Humility in worship. Humility in self-reflection. Humility in interactions with others—interpersonally, giving and receiving correction, reviewing each other’s work, with those unlike us. Humility in <insert everything>.

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New office, new stack

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Pumped to be teaching an honors seminar this semester on patristic exegesis. Students will get to read primary sources, engage them fairly, and then discuss the good/bad/ugly.

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Re-reading Rahner’s little work on the Trinity this weekend. A couple of scattered thoughts (🧵):

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People who remove your dust jackets and, even worse, sell them used to others… who hurt you?

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Finally came in!

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7. Can I just say again: don’t sacrifice the things in front of you. Tire yourself out with your family. Be a good employee. Serve your church. Invite your neighbors over for dinner. The “writing life” is not glamorous & don’t let Instagram tell you otherwise. Keep plodding!

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Ricky Bobby is more Chalcedonian than some of y’all

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The @MBTS swag never misses

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A wild 2023 for the Smiths: - moved into a new house in OH that flooded a week later (while we were in TX) - 4 months of living in construction + Airbnb - 2 books published - unexpectedly offered & accepted a job at @OBUnews - moved to OK - had a baby My wife & I tonight:

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I’m reminded again why it’s so important to be concerned with your own affairs, keep your vision primarily local, & find your identity in Christ & receive correction from those who God has placed over & alongside you.

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I know I’m about a decade behind on reading this, but it’s really a remarkable work. Between it’s implications for biblical and theological scholarship + the vision of college and university life, this is especially a must-read for all of us in Christian higher ed.

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Maybe the best opener to an academic book that I’ve ever read. The upshot: we’ve lost Scripture as *Scripture* when we turn it into another mere artifact to investigate. ()

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It’s basic neighbor-love to ask clarifying questions directly of those you disagree with. I imagine Satan loves when we assume bad motives, judge a person’s theology or character off one tweet or article, and/or use others’ failures/wrongness as a prop for our own platforms.

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I had opportunities to publish a version of my dissertation with a UP, but SCDS was my dream because of its vision, editors ( @VanhoozerKevin & @teedan ), & the affordability might reach some folks. But I still thought no one would buy it! Truly honored that some of you did.

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What if—and hear me out here—we try harder by the power of the Spirit to treat each other as we will in the new creation?

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1 year

Let’s goooo

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As Paul said to a divided and quarreling church: “Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” 1 Cor. 13:7

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Almost 10 years later & this book is still so helpful. I especially enjoy essays by @FredFredSanders on the Trinity in theology/life, @RealTomMcCall on Trinity & simplicity, @SteveRHolmes on inseparable operations, & Ayres on Trinitarian unity.

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Y’all best look out when these boys get together

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This is an absolutely fantastic piece by @JeremyTreat5 at @TGC on how to handle the relationship between God’s holiness and his wrath.

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Wrath Is Not an Attribute of God

God is love. God is holy. God is just. God is not wrath.

www.thegospelcoalition.org

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It’s true that you can’t make everyone like you, but “as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.” Rom 12:18

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Sheesh, this book is good. ()

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