The Scriptorium Daily

Author: Fred Sanders

  • Whitefield & Wesley on Evangelism & Discipleship

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    George Whitefield and John Wesley, the two titans of the evangelical awakening of the eighteenth century, are not paired often enough. The people who write about them or quote them tend to be strongly attracted to one and averse to the other. As a result, most assessments of the two men have a tendency to…

  • Appropriating Deep Things @ETS: Four Papers

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    Next week at the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, four scholars will be presenting papers on my 2010 book The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything. By the way, the book is now only $2.99 on Kindle. I am just thrilled that the book has drawn the attention of four…

  • Supercat!

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    Supercat! Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap over tall buildings in a single bound! Yes, Supercat! Saving kittens as crowds cheer! Super, duper, supercat!

  • How to Give an ETS Conference Paper

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    The Evangelical Theological Society is having its annual meeting next week. As a veteran of a dozen ETS conferences and a bunch of other scholarly gatherings, I offer here a few tips about how to present a paper. I have heard, and I have delivered, some bad presentations, and have learned from trial and error.…

  • Experiencing the Trinity (with Wesley)

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    John Wesley only preached one sermon with the word “Trinity” in the title, but don’t let that fool you: he is a great guide to living out the mystery of evangelical trinitarianism. His approach to the Christian life is saturated with the insight that in everything we do, we are surrounded by the work and…

  • Dragon Drawing Comes to Life

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    Freddy Age Eleven is a prolific artist who draws dragons daily. His studio is littered with them, a hoard of sketches big enough to make Smaug jealous. But for Halloween, he undertook a collaboration with Sanders Consulting, a company that specializes in taking sketches and rendering them in full-scale three-dimensional models. Here is the sketch…

  • Californian Theology @ ETS

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    The new project called Theological Engagement with California Culture is moving out of the initial planning phase and onto the public stage this November. Since the national meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society is in California this year, we are holding our first major presentation in conjunction with ETS in San Francisco. You can read…

  • The Sermon on the Mount, According to Wesley

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    Fred Sanders
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    John Wesley is one of the great interpreters of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. The Sermon plays a central role in Wesley’s own thought. In Wesley’s Standard Sermons, the series of sermons dedicated to expounding Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount is the longest series of continuous discourses in the whole volume, running from Sermon #21…

  • Vatican II

    Vatican II

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    Today (October 11) is the anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council in 1962. Vatican II meant a lot of things to Roman Catholics on the ground (from changes in practices of fasting, to rumors that everything was about to blow wide open), but here is a theological overview of this epochal Roman…

  • Decliration of DaddyLand

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    Here is a little glimpse of what an intense writing schedule apparently looks like to the fourth-grader who shares the home with the busy scholar. The thing on the (awesome retro-modernist) table is a small scroll containing the Decliration of DaddyLand. What Daddy has to declire is unclear, as is what LAND he will rule.…

  • Time for Church: Jesus We Look to Thee

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    Charles Wesley’s hymn “Jesus, We Look to Thee,” a lyric meditation on assembling in Jesus’ name. Jesus, we look to Thee, Thy promised presence claim; Thou in the midst of us shall be, Assembled in Thy Name. Thy Name salvation is, Which here we come to prove; Thy Name is life, and health, and peace,…

  • "And Show Them to Thy Blood"

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    Fred Sanders
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    Psalm 68 is not just a run-of-the-mill imprecatory psalm. It combines “smite my enemy” prayers with the “God is a warrior” motif, and the result is a vision of God’s wrath and judgment that sounds more like Beowulf or Conan the Barbarian than any other part of the Bible. I say this advisedly, because back…