The Scriptorium Daily

Year: 2008

  • Conference on Lewis, the Inklings, and Christian Community

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    Fred Sanders
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    On February 7-9, Azusa Pacific University is hosting a conference on the Inklings and Christian Community. Three plenary speakers are scheduled, and a selection of shorter papers will also be presented there, probably in parallel sessions. The website says it’s free, so if you’re near Azusa, come on by. Two members of the Scriptorium team…

  • The New Testament: Final Answers to Rhetorical Questions

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    Fred Sanders
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    One of the most arresting things the New Testament does is give real answers to what the Old Testament had put forth as rhetorical questions. Have you ever noticed this? Rhetorical questions, which are not meant to be answered, are put in question form in order to make a point. Proverbs 30 is a good…

  • What’s New?

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    Fred Sanders
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    At the beginning of January I got to preach at Grace Fellowship Church in Costa Mesa, CA. The sermon was on First Corinthians 2 and entitled “The Deep Things of God.” For the next few days, I’ll be posting sections of the sermon text as individual meditations. Today’s post is the silly part. I’ve always…

  • Oh Say What You See

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    Fred Sanders
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    National treasure Jacques Barzun with some good advice on “What Makes Writing Right.” Most people who coach you on writing better say things like “it’s not enough to express yourself; you have to think about your reader and strive to communicate.” Certainly there’s truth in that, and there’s even a kind of ethical demand on…

  • Martin Luther King, Jr: One Great Liberal Theologian

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    Fred Sanders
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    John Piper has the right idea about Martin Luther King Day: Don’t Waste It. In a timely memo, Piper exhorted all pastors and teachers who read his blog to “take note of the day and speak a word of exhortation to your people concerning their hearts in matters of race and ethnicity. … None of…

  • Catholicity, Race and Sunday Morning

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    Matt Jenson
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    For the last 1600 years, Christians have confessed belief in the ‘one holy catholic and apostolic church’. The ‘catholic’ bit of that confession makes many Protestants fidgety, but it need not. Its etymology renders it simply ‘according to the whole’. Catholicity gets at the universal character of the church, and it does so by two…

  • Anna Dennis: “Expert, Devoted, and Beloved”

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    Fred Sanders
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    Somebody recently asked me about The First Female Bible Professor at Biola, suggesting that the title must belong to a fairly recent hire. While I don’t have a comprehensive history of Bible teachers on Biola’s faculty, I do know a candidate for one of the first: Anna Dennis was recruited by R. A. Torrey in…

  • On Friendship

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    John Mark Reynolds
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    Friendship is hard to define, yet it is a defining aspect of every person’s life. John Mark Reynolds, Paul Spears, and Fred Sanders discuss the nature of friendships, their utility, and the role they play in one’s personal development. Click here to listen!

  • The Gospel of Gush (T. C. Horton)

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    Fred Sanders
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    The Gospel of Grace and the Gospel of Gush How wide is the distinction beween the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ and that other gospel of which Paul speaks, and which is indeed no gospel. The real Gospel —the true Gospel— centers in “Jesus Christ ad Him crucified.” It has to do with lost…

  • Seriously, Homer?

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    Melissa Schubert
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    Every year our freshmen begin their college education reading Homer’s Iliad. And every year our freshmen stumble upon the same sophisticated “insights” about the ancient poem. They posit that Homer, or some poet before him, able neither to explain nor to master the wine-dark sea, deified the visible phenomena as Poseidon, Ocean, nymphs, and so…

  • Dallas Willard Carries a Big Stick

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    Paul Spears
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    We have all heard the famous quote by President Teddy Roosevelt, “Speak softly and carry a big stick.” Roosevelt was talking about his foreign policy when he made that famous quote. If you have ever heard Dallas Willard speak you have experienced the academic version of that saying. He speaks in modest tones, but his…

  • Everything is Interesting

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    Fred Sanders
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    Richard M. Weaver, a distinguished educator most famous for his visionary books like Ideas Have Consequences, also wrote a humble handbook of English composition: A Rhetoric and Handbook. It covers everything a college freshman could need to know about writing: from spelling and punctuation to the structure of arguments and the tone of an author’s…