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  • "The Necessary Backdrop for Everything Evangelicals Emphasize:" Deep Things in Christianity Today

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    Fred Sanders
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    The new issue of Christianity Today has a nice, long review of The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything. Guess what: They like it, give it five stars, and recommend that you ought to drop everything and go buy multiple copies right now. Well, that last part might be between the lines,…

  • How Big the Gospel Is

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    Fred Sanders
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    Look at the nifty quotes that are being passed around Twitter lately, from my book The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything: A set of statements from the bottom of page 106, which sound better to me when somebody else tweets them at me than they did when I wrote them: A…

  • "That Great Antecedent to Bethlehem"

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    Fred Sanders
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    Though it’s slightly unseasonal in the sense that we’re now two days after Christmas, this Christmas sermon by H.C.G. Moule is about the great thing that lies behind Christmas: the Son’s self-consecration to carry out the Father’s will for saving us. It is always the right time to ponder that. This sermon is from about…

  • Happy Birthday, Handley Moule

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    Fred Sanders
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    H. C. G. (that’s Handley Carr Glyn) Moule was born on this day (December 23) in 1841 and died in 1920. Laurels? Moule had them aplenty. A Cambridge man (Trinity College 1864, where he was also fellow from 1865 to 1881 and dean from 1873-1877), he was the first principal of Ridley Hall (1881-1899) and…

  • Happy Birthday, Edwin Abbott

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    Fred Sanders
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    Today (December 20) is the birthday of Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838-1926), the English scholar remembered now as the author of Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. A pleasant, short, and stimulating work, Flatland is a great little mental workout that helps you imagine the jump from lower dimensions to higher. It’s the story of a…

  • Deep Things Here, Deep Things There

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    Fred Sanders
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    Here’s an update on a few more reviews and discussions of Deep Things of God around the web. Jason Sexton in the brand new Themelios provides a nice, long review of the book, calling the book a feast, an unusually bold work, and something that should be “read by every undergraduate student in any evangelical…

  • Happy Birthday, Christina Rossetti

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    Fred Sanders
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    Today (December 5) is the birthday of Christina Rossetti (1830-1894). Rossetti is remembered these days for the Christmas lyric “In the Bleak Midwinter,” the long, strange, poem Goblin Market which launched a thousand knowing dissertations, and charming, harmless children’s verse like “Hurt no living thing:Ladybird, nor butterfly.” But Rossetti also wrote a devotional commentary on…

  • Happy Birthday, John Cotton

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    Fred Sanders
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    Today (December 4) is the birthday of John Cotton (1585-1652), a Puritan pastor with a ministry in both Bostons: The Boston in Lincolnshire, England, and later the Boston in New England. He was an accomplished Cambridge University man (graduate of Trinity, fellow of Emmanuel) whose theological opinions were consistently moving in a more Puritan direction…

  • Happy Birthday, John Bunyan

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    Fred Sanders
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    Today (November 28) is the birthday of John Bunyan (1628-1688). Most famous for his Pilgrim’s Progress, Bunyan also authored a number of theological and devotional works of lasting value. They all have that Bunyan charm: The fluency with Scripture, the lightning-quick associative leaps, the natural vigor, the homespun power of the English language. If you…

  • Hit 'em With the Rock of Ages

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    Fred Sanders
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    “Rock of Ages” is a great hymn, one of the best. Here is the bad news: It was written out of spite, by a bitter and narrow-minded young man who couldn’t keep his personal hatred from over-flowing into his prayers and songs. Here is the good news: God rescued the hymn from the defects of…

  • The Trinitarian Theology of Billy Graham

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    Fred Sanders
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    Today (November 7) is the birthday of Billy Graham, born in 1918. When you look back over the turbulent twentieth century, the ministry of Billy Graham stands out as remarkably steady and consistent. Compared to the fates of other prominent evangelists who stood in the spotlight through these long and perplexing decades, it’s tempting to…

  • Happy Birthday, B.B. Warfield

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    Fred Sanders
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    Today (Nov. 5) is the day when Benjamin Breckenridge Warfield (1851 – 1921) was born. The title of “America’s Greatest Theologian” is pretty universally ceded to Jonathan Edwards, and after him there is a tight race for “Second Greatest.” In my opinion, Warfield is a contender for that second slot. He even edges out fellow…