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  • Today Photius Died (893)

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    Fred Sanders
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    Photius of Constantinople (ca. 810-893) is commemorated on this day. As an influential patriarch of this important eastern city, Photius could boast many educational, administrative, and evangelistic accomplishments. But in both East and West, the name of Photius will always be chiefly associated with that very split, the one between East and West. He excommunicated…

  • The Shack: Four Walls, Five Reviews

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    Fred Sanders
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    The Kids-Book Author: Have you read the Shack of Mack? Have you read this paperback? Would you give it to your friends? Will you spoil how it ends? I have read the Shack of Mack. I have read this paperback. I would not give it to my friends. I might just spoil how it ends.…

  • Today Gregory of Nazianzus Died (389)

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    Fred Sanders
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    Gregory of Nazianzus is among the most important and influential of the church fathers, as can be seen from the rank he occupies in no less than three traditional honorific triads. The first triad with which Gregory is associated is the Cappadocian Fathers: Basil the Great, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Gregory of Nyssa. The work…

  • Today is John Donne’s Birthday

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    Fred Sanders
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    Today in 1572, John Donne was born. Donne was equally powerful as a poet and as a preacher, because in both roles he exercised an apparently absolute mastery over the English language. In his 1999 book The Theology of John Donne, Jeffrey Johnson argues that “the doctrine of the Trinity is for Donne the seminal…

  • Today is Carl Henry’s Birthday

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    Fred Sanders
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    Carl F. H. Henry was born on January 22, 1913. He has only been dead for a few years now (since late 2003), and it’s still a little hard to believe he’s gone. Henry stamped his identity onto some of the central institutions of the evangelical establishment: Christianity Today, the National Association of Evangelicals, Fuller…

  • Assurance: Anchored in Jehovah

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    Fred Sanders
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    Believers should have confident assurance of their salvation, but on what grounds? I’ve explored several options and have commended a richly trinitarian understanding of salvation as the ultimate basis of assurance. Confidence in God and his salvation rests in intelligent belief in the Trinity. The reason for this is that, to put it as concisely…

  • Trinitarian Soteriology and Assurance

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    Fred Sanders
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    To have a proper confidence in salvation, believers don’t need to muster up greater and great conviction. Instead, we need deeper insight into what salvation is. When we understand our salvation thoroughly enough, conviction and assurance take care of themselves. An adequate doctrine of salvation —a soteriology— needs to be located first of all in…

  • Wedding Sermon: What God has Joined Together

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    Fred Sanders
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    For Mark Makin and Carri Javier, July 18, 2008 Part I: A Thing Dearly beloved, we are gathered together here today because we want to witness the creation of a new thing. This thing is a new family, this new household consisting of Mark and Carri, this Makin family, this couple, this one new reality,…

  • Charles Simeon of Cambridge

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    Fred Sanders
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    The history of the church is filled with great pastors and teachers. Even if you skip over the church fathers, the medievals, and the reformers, confining yourself to recent times–say these past two and a half centuries– there are more than enough great theologians and devotional writers to keep you busy, well-fed, informed, and inspired.…

  • Reflections on Russia and England

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    Greg Peters
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    I have just returned from a trip with 37 Torrey Honors students to Russia and England. What a great trip! Not only did I see the St. Petersburg of Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, but I also had a chance to see The Merchant of Venice performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-on-Avon. Mainly, however,…

  • Just How Great Are Wesley’s Hymns?

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    Fred Sanders
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    Jesus is God, but did he know during his earthly ministry that he was God? Was he, as a human, aware of his divinity? I think it is necessary, for biblical and logical reasons, to answer yes to this question, but I freely admit that doing so raises further difficult questions and forces us to…

  • Christ Knows How to Be God (Austin Farrer)

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    Fred Sanders
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    Jesus is God, but did he know during his earthly ministry that he was God? Was he, as a human, aware of his divinity? I think it is necessary, for biblical and logical reasons, to answer yes to this question, but I freely admit that doing so raises further difficult questions and forces us to…