@rachellouisa.bsky.social a pleasure to have him with us tonight!! doing our best to take care of him while he’s with us..

Easter: The Season of the Resurrection of Jesus (Fullness of Time) Easter: The Season of the Resurrection of Jesus (Fullness of Time) [Hill, Wesley] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Easter: The Season of the Resurrection of Jesus (Fullness of Time)

My book on the season of Easter will be out a week from today: a.co/d/fEuhkF5. I’d be honored and happy if you’d consider preordering it!

This, my latest, is from Baylor University Press who also hosts such luminaries as Ephraim Radner. This book would not exist without the initiatives of Kimlyn Bender, Professor of Systematic Theology at Truett, and one of the best colleagues I've had in my whole life--which is saying quite a lot.

So thankful for your involvement :)

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.

“lmao" said Gandalf, “well it has.”

Hard to ignore this.
The parable was a response re the definition of "neighbor" in the Royal Law (Lev 19).

The immediate context of Lev 19 shows neighbor love = doing justice for all.

The larger context of the OT law makes it clear that justice had to include protecting foreigners.

Every few days I read another piece about 😱The Tragedy of Literature In Our Post-Literate Society 😳, and when I do I always want to ask the author just one question: When Milton wrote *Paradise Lost*, what percentage of the English population were literate enough to read it?

it’s long though so.. 1.5/1.75x? but he presents it well and its fun.

good for doing the dishes..

the reading list grows..

Severance Season 2 Episode 1 Breakdown and Ending Explained, Praise Kier YouTube video by ScreenCrush

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great accompaniment to s2e1 (esp at 1.75x speed)!!!

Severance Season 2 Episode 1 Breakdown and Ending Explained, Praise Kier YouTube video by ScreenCrush

youtu.be/cNUD386hNoQ?...

this was SO helpful

A blessed Epiphanytide to everyone. (The poem is by U. A. Fanthorpe.)

Remembering Richard Hays And officially launching this newsletter

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To be clear, I’m saying students don’t need teen-targeted content. They’re more than capable of interacting with Scripture as adults (and with adults). Devotionals can slow or sabotage their developing Bible literacy because devos spoon-feed. Give them tools to learn the Bible & form a study habit.

Life Cannot Be Delegated The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 15

Last installment of 2024: "Life Cannot Be Delegated."
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Neither would they put the silver pieces they paid to Judas in the temple treasury because it was “blood money” (Matthew 27:6). Legalism prides itself on outward appearances of obedience, all the while oblivious to inner corruption. 2/2

Conspiring to execute the innocent one to whom it pointed, the chief priests didn’t enter Pilate’s headquarters so as not to defile themselves and be ineligible to eat the Passover (John 18:28). 1/2

“Who then is the faithful & wise servant, whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time? Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes.” (Matt 24:45-46)

Fidelity to the master involves caring for fellow servants.

Don't know who made this, but I dig it.

I recommend no fewer than 4 copies of any beloved book. A paperback for traveling and lending to friends, an eBook for reading with greasy snack fingers, an audio book so you know how the characters' names are actually pronounced, and a pristine hardcover to be buried with you like a pharaoh

That’s totally fair! Was just interested in how you (seem to?) see the subjectivist turn as a corrective to the “dominance of one kind of voice” — I think it’d be helpful to have a perspective on the need for / benefits of the subjectivist turn that treat it evenhandedly and don’t just demonize it!

it hurt me but i like the Mavs so it healed me too

“Since the Word was clothed in flesh, as we’ve often explained, flesh began to be healed from the serpent’s every bite. The evil growths arising from sinful desires began to be cut away.” -Athanasius

That’s what I hinted at when preaching Matt 2:1-12 — the text is about the sufficiency and true light of Scripture! As Bruner remarked, Matthew does not intend to return us to the uncertainty of stars.. 🙂

Have you written about this elsewhere by any chance, or might you have recommended reads?

likewise — interested to hear your thoughts on Favale as i appreciate your thoughtful reviews.

“We are guilty before God, but today in our secularized societies we are ashamed 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 before others.” -David Wells