Image Source: Wikimedia The rusty truck bed was empty, Our hourly work Finished. Grandpa’d say, “Get in.” Mom and that man rode away When I was Born, their son, they didn’t care, Didn’t call, except for our couple bucks. The truck’s tires roared and spun mud up. Trees were coursing by, All that wood, A whole river of the stuff, I’d puke holding an axe— I hate splitting wood.

My introduction to biblical counseling came in the fall of 2017. I wish it had come sooner. The needs of the suffering are mountainous and deep valleys. Since then I have been learning much and growing in wisdom, and David Powlison’s writing and teaching has been moving, helpful, enlightening, and has been God-glorifying and worship-igniting. While I never met him, the Lord used him mightily for his kingdom, and I have no doubt will continue to use his writing and teaching and mentoring for years to come.

Corruption breeds in the dark; expose the darkness to the light. The prosperity gospel is a uniquely Western abomination that spawned within Christendom, spreading its virulent tentacles abroad, which must be squashed through the proclamation of the truth. https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/pray-negative-prosperity-gospel-stories/

This covers an important trend I have seen since my days in Campus Crusade. Have you heard the catchphrase of the need for “vulnerability” or the need to be “vulnerable”? it is in vogue among the broadly evangelical to speak and even boast of one’s brokenness and the healing that is found in Jesus’s loving and personal relationship forming arms, but it is so often stripped of the responsibility and guilt.

I mentioned I was studying Ugaritic in the following post. Basics of Ancient Ugaritic I got tired of having to make reference to all the various pages with charts of information. I compiled those charts into the following documents for convenience and share them here. Ugaritic Cheat Sheet PDF Ugaritic Cheat Sheet ODS Ugaritic Cheat Sheet XLSX

About the Series I have had to read pages upon pages of theological material; so much that it feels like I forget a fair amount of what I read. While I do maintain a general synopsis of a book, I want to better internalize and remember what I am chewing and digesting as I read. This series seeks to remedy this by providing brief reviews of the books I read.

About the Series I have had to read pages upon pages of theological material; so much that it feels like I forget a fair amount of what I read. While I do maintain a general synopsis of a book, I want to better internalize and remember what I am chewing and digesting as I read. This series seeks to remedy this by providing brief reviews of the books I read.

About the Series I have had to read pages upon pages of theological material; so much that it feels like I forget a fair amount of what I read. While I do maintain a general synopsis of a book, I want to better internalize and remember what I am chewing and digesting as I read. This series seeks to remedy this by providing brief reviews of the books I read.

Robert Alter’s name has been mentioned more than once in biblical theology classes of mine at RTS. He presents a way to understand well Old Testament literature. Though he is not a Christian, his work I have been told can be used to understand Hebrew literature in ways we are unaware of as Western 21st century Christians. I would suspect that his observations are great but that his conclusions and/or presuppositions contain issues.

While interesting to see a non-theology professor gain a spotlight in the news, it is a shame that he belittles Augustine’s, Gottschalk’s, Ratramnus’s, Florus’s, the early Anselm’s, Aquinas’s, and Calvin’s—and of course many others—thought by thinking that God’s sovereignty and grace must equate to fatalism rather than compatibilism. There is a rich history which he throws away, leaning more into Enlightenment thinking that Scriptural reasoning. We must be well-versed not only in our own views, but in those of others, and we must be able to explain them well without turning to strawman arguments.

Jordan Peterson took many by surprise after he showed an interviewer’s logical problems. What has interested many on the political right is his biblical quotations and references, yet what many fail to realize is that his thoughts are little more than a repeat of the German higher critics from the 18th through 20th century. In particular his thoughts reflect those of Strauss, the father of radical theology whose thoughts come out of then-contemporary Hegalian thinking.

About the Series I have had to read pages upon pages of theological material; so much that it feels like I forget a fair amount of what I read. While I do maintain a general synopsis of a book, I want to better internalize and remember what I am chewing and digesting as I read. This series seeks to remedy this by providing brief reviews of the books I read.

About the Series I have had to read pages upon pages of theological material; so much that it feels like I forget a fair amount of what I read. While I do maintain a general synopsis of a book, I want to better internalize and remember what I am chewing and digesting as I read. This series seeks to remedy this by providing brief reviews of the books I read.

About the Series I have had to read pages upon pages of theological material; so much that it feels like I forget a fair amount of what I read. While I do maintain a general synopsis of a book, I want to better internalize and remember what I am chewing and digesting as I read. This series seeks to remedy this by providing brief reviews of the books I read.

About the Series The following is the first post of a series I’m calling, “What I Read in Seminary”. I have had to read pages upon pages of theological material; so much that it feels like I forget a fair amount of what I read. While I do maintain a general synopsis of a book, I want to better internalize and remember what I am chewing and digesting as I read.