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  • The Lord’s Prayer in the Heidelberg Catechism

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    Fred Sanders
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    Any good catechism includes the Lord’s Prayer, broken up line by line and explained. The Heidelberg Catechism includes such a commentary on the Lord’s Prayer in its final ten questions (120-129), and it is excellent. Click through to read the full discussion in question and answer format. From that discussion, I culled the basic interpretation…

  • Worldview Anomalies, Recalcitrant Facts and the Image of God

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    Scriptorium Admin
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    Once upon a time there was a man who thought he was dead. His wife tried everything she could to convince him he was very much alive. But try as she may, he would not change his mind. After several weeks of this, she finally took him to the doctor who assured the man he…

  • Re-Heat Your Chicken; This Dead Chicken

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    Fred Sanders
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    Reading hundreds of pages of theology every day, I was in a small group of friends in graduate school who helped each other study. We didn’t have much in common except for the looming doctoral exams, and some overlap in our reading assignments. Tired of saying “the group” is getting together, we named ourselves The…

  • In High Esteem

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    Guest Contributor
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    Mark Hopson, 2008. When I graduated from Biola and got my picture taken with Dr. Cook, I found myself at a loss for words on how best to thank him for his ministry in my life. Did I thank him for presiding so effectively over a school that has shaped nearly every aspect of my…

  • Putting Things Together Helps You Think

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    Fred Sanders
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    People who work mainly with intangible things —ideas, interpretations, theories, reviews, explanations— are exposed to a unique kind of danger. Ideas usually don’t kick back at you in a way that forces you to notice. If you make a mistake in interpretation, usually nothing explodes or catches fire. If an academic has a wrong idea…

  • Torrey Students Share Their Memories of Clyde Cook

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    Paul Spears
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    Dr. Clyde Cook was a great man who was much beloved by his students at Biola University. Several students at the Torrey Honors Institute submitted short reflections in honor of this wonderful man of God. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his wife Anna Belle and the entire Cook family. —————————————————————————————————————— A year ago…

  • Meet the Theologians: Anselm of Canterbury

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    Fred Sanders
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  • Craig Hazen’s Five Sacred Crossings: Truly Novel

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    Fred Sanders
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    For sheer awkwardness, there’s not much to compare with the moment when a friend hands you a book and says, “Here, this is my first novel, I hope you enjoy it.” That happened to me this January. I was lucky, though: the friend was Craig Hazen, and the book was Five Sacred Crossings: A Novel…

  • Four Views of Clyde Cook

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    Fred Sanders
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    This brief note may not be 36 Views of Mount Fuji, but Dr. Clyde Cook was a mountain of a man: he was tall, for one thing –only 6 foot 3, but he acted so much taller. And his life and legacy repay examination from many angles. Here are the ones that come to mind…

  • Thrynnysse

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    Fred Sanders
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    The word “Trinity” is not in the Bible, true enough. But don’t let the fanciness of the word “Trinity” throw you, it just means “threeness.” I was looking around in some Old English, or Anglo-Saxon, Bible commentaries a while ago, and saw that the word “Trinity” showed up there just as “thrynnysse.” I was getting…

  • How to Sin With Money

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    Fred Sanders
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    A lot of people think the Bible says “Money is the root of all evil.” But it says something quite different: I Timothy 6:10 says “The love of money is a root of all sorts of evils.” There aren’t very many kinds of trouble that loving money can’t get you into. Misconstruing this verse could…

  • Titanic Day

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    Fred Sanders
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    Freddy Age Seven draws a remarkably accurate Titanic from memory: the color scheme, the tilted smoke stacks, and all. And memory is what it’s all about on this anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. Highlighted against the stark white of a dramatically over-sized iceberg, the great ship goes down. In the background, the Carpathia…