In recent years there as has been a renewal of interest in the idea of the pastor as scholar and the scholar as pastor. I remember attending an event in 2009 where John Piper and D. A. Carson spoke on this issue for nearly two hours. Piper represented the scholarly pastor while Carson was the…
Augustine’s influence is profound, his depth of insight stunning, and his literary output insane. Isidore of Seville (AD 560-636) once said that if anyone claimed to have read all Augustine wrote, they were lying. The progress I’ve made in Augustine is minimal and I’m far from an authority on his writing and theology. However, after…
The Eastward Expansion of the Church In AD 66, the Jews rebelled against the occupying Romans, with the Romans putting an end to the rebellion in AD 70 (read more here). During this time, Jewish Christians fled for safety east of the Jordan River to a town named Pella. Bryan Litfin writes, “From there the…
Though it is common to assert women speak more words a day than men, it appears more likely that men and women use a similar amount of words per day.* Regardless of whether or not that’s true, our words are not few. I’m reminded today that all of my words matter, particularly when it comes…
What’s the difference between the past and history? Perhaps that seems like a silly question, but at the professional level historians make a distinction between the two. Though history deals with the past, for the historian, the past and history are not necessarily equivalent. Nathan Finn explains this idea when he writes, “Professional historians make…
