Theology 101:

Yes, Jesus miraculously and instantaneously turned water into grape juice.

Fermented grape juice, also called “wine.”

Theology 101: Some things are simple and need to be embraced and stated plainly; some things are complicated and need to be nuanced and asserted tentatively. The ability to tell the difference is a mark of theological maturity.

Theology 101: In naturalistic evolution, humanity is a mere comma in nature’s endlessly rambling run-on sentence...

Theology 101: If your theological position, dogmatic declaration, or church confession would alienate 100% of second-century Christians and exclude them from your fellowship, you need to chill.

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Theology 101: Believing in the inspiration and complete truthfulness of Scripture does not make me a fundamentalist. It makes me a classic Christian in agreement with the patristic, medieval, and Protestant churches on the nature and authority of Scripture.

Theology 101: I think date-setters should be required by law to buy back all their books when they get it wrong.

Theology 101: One of the greatest apologetic challenges in a post-Christian world is just getting unbelievers to imagine that the world could possibly be otherwise.

Theology 101: Art and science are to God’s revelation through creation what exposition and exegesis are to God’s revelation in Scripture.

Theology 101: If you think miracles ought to be proven scientifically, you understand neither science nor miracles.

Theology 101: The main reason for doing your own exegesis of a text in the original languages is not to come up with a final interpretation to end all discussion, but to equip yourself for critical discussion with other interpretations.

Theology 101: “Confessional” scholars and “non-confessional” scholars differ only in that the former are actually honest and open about their presuppositions.

Theology 101: Many times, God has sent me places I’ve said I’d never go and called me to do things I’ve said I’d never do. It usually starts with me laughing at the idea.

Theology 101: “There is one physician, both fleshly and spiritual, born and unborn, God in man, true life in death, both of Mary and of God, first subject to suffering and then free of suffering, Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Ignatius of Antioch, To the Ephesians 7.2, c. AD 110)

Hey, could someone up there please unplug the Matrix so we can all wake up?

Theology 101: “The soul must know its creator to live as surely as the body must breathe. For the soul must know God or die.” (Basil of Caesarea)

Finishing up final edits on “The Story of the Future,” a general-audience eschatology book with Hendrickson, due out in January. Next step: typesetting.

Theology 101: Without controversy, the burden of proof is on anyone who wants to make something other than the person and work of Christ the center of CHRISTian theology.

Theology 101: "It is a human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions." (Tertullian)

Theology 101: Stop lamenting the small voice the church has in the world; start repenting for the loud voice the world has in the church.

Great. That would make those cards $12 instead of $8. They’d just pass the cost down to us.

Theology 101: Two inconvenient historical facts: 1) the early church couldn’t be categorized as “cessationist” by today’s common definition of that term; 2) the early church couldn’t be categorized as “continuationist” by today’s common definition of that term.

Theology 101: John Henry Newman’s theory of doctrinal development, which validates the legitimacy of doctrinal development, was itself a development that can only be validated by assuming the validity of its own development.

Theology 101: Before pushing “Post,” ask yourself: does this statement reflect and promote faith, hope, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control?

Theology 101: Do the math. Reacting to wickedness with wickedness does not bring righteousness but double wickedness.

Theology 101: Cherry-picking evidence to uphold my sin is a sin. Willful ignorance of evidence to uphold my sin is a sin. “Yeah-but-ing” arguments to uphold my sin is a sin.

Theology 101: Cherry-picking evidence to uphold my sin is a sin. Willful ignorance of evidence to uphold my sin is a sin. “Yeah-but-ing” arguments to uphold my sin is a sin.

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Theology 101:
Them: “I like Jesus’s teachings.”
Jesus: “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
Them: “Not that teaching.”

Theology 101: In orthodox theology, we must strive to avoid dogmas opinionized and opinions dogmatized.