Author: Fred Sanders

If you’re in the Los Angeles area, you might want to plan on attending the book release event that Biola’s department of Apologetics is hosting. It’s on Monday, Sept. 27, from 7:30 to 9:30. Hosted by Craig Hazen, this free event will be two hours of great teaching on the Trinity, with my new book…

“God has spoken,” says the opening sentence of Hebrews. And as that astonishing sentence unfolds, it exhibits a balance and symmetry that cries out to be diagrammed. Or cartooned, even if only with the restricted means of Microsoft Word. Here is the chart I habitually draw during class discussions of Hebrews 1. This is just…

Since the release of my new book last week (The Deep Things of God), I admit I’ve been keeping an eye on the twitter-stream and blog-feed to see how it’s doing. It’s got a few reviews already, which is nice to see. But the most interesting phenomenon is in the tweeting and microblogging, where people…

The first four verses of Hebrews are one sentence in Greek, and there aren’t many sentences this good in the whole history of the world. Just looking at the first few words in Greek, even without knowing Greek, you can see that it starts with some very long and interesting words: two four-syllable compound words…

On Sunday Sept. 5, I got to talk with Greg Koukl on the Stand to Reason radio show about my new book The Deep Things of God. Greg’s a great interviewer: he’s knowledgeable, has read at least part of the brand new book in advance, understood the key ideas, and started the conversation by asking…

Hebrews is a book of the Bible for people in hard times. Should you read it now, or later? In terms of the book’s actual background, we don’t know much for certain about the situation of those who first heard these words. There are dark suggestions of hardship in a few verses of chapter 10:…

Last week I got to speak in Biola chapel, as part of a faculty series on the first chapter of John’s gospel. It’s a thirty-minute sermon, and you can view it at Biola’s video chapel archive. It’s always a blast to speak to the Biola community,and this series on John is very well designed, with…

My book on the Trinity is officially released today: The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything. Here’s a thought based on the book, though I don’t put it exactly this way there. A lot of Bible-believing Christians have trouble seeing the doctrine of the Trinity in Scripture. They see a verse here…

Donald Bloesch, evangelical theologian, died this week. He was a unique figure in twentieth-century theology, and now that he has passed from the scene, what strikes me about his work is his noble isolation. I don’t mean that he was personally lonely: by all reports he sustained many close friendships, and inspired long-term loyalty and…