Saying a prayer for pastors tonight.
No matter what they say, it will be too much or too little for someone, especially who have been discipled to react in particular ways. But I still trust that the Spirit can move powerfully in our weakness and reshape our broken hearts.
If you appreciate the quirkiness of evangelical higher education, you might like this (AI powered) chart of seminaries by personality types I worked up...
For me, "self care" is naming my files in a way that considers all the words my future self might search for.
Enjoying pushing the limits of a Venn diagram to explore meanings of Israel, Abraham, etc.
Walking through DFW airport, I am puzzled to see a dozen well known Christian leaders in a big group. Then look over at the gate to see BNA :)
AI Ethics Standards currently feel like LLMs themselves—they’re super neat, but no one knows how they actually work.
*waves hands*
"human flourishing"
*smiles knowingly with a slight squint and a nod*
To SBC friends who just arrived in DFW, if any of y'all would like to stop by @dallasseminary while you're in town, I'd love to see you and show you around.
Please bring your best jokes about baptist and nondenoms are kinda the same but one is clearly better.
(2) "Proceeds from" is biblical language that helps us see that "The eternal relations within God mirror the redemptive movement of God toward us." (3) The Holy Spirit draws us, seals us, and gifts us, but we must choose daily to be filled by him and to walk with him
A few areas of emphasis: (1) Rather than seeing the Spirit as a force to manipulate, Irenaeus's "two arms of God" implies that we should fully embrace both Son and Spirit as full persons, avoiding a side-hug of God;
Got to preach on the Holy Spirit section of the Nicene Creed last weekend! [See below for some notes] youtu.be/q_hIK1B0PX0
there's more AIs in this meeting than people ...
On Christian Universalism: As much as I want God to save everyone, it would seem that a God who forces salvation on all humanity isn't truly loving, he's just the owner of an advanced robotics facility.
¿Do y'all think it'd be cool if English could start a question marker with a marker?
When Jesus said, “my yoke is easy,” I wonder he fondly remembered his father’s praise when he finally got the first one right, slightly chuckling at the word “easy.”
Came up with two Trinity activities for our church's discipleship cohort yesterday. They seemed to work really well!
(1) Creedal Comparison and Heresies
(2) Prepositions and Persons
Dear old people,
We are further away from the release of Iron Man, than The Matrix was from Back to the Future.
How's Joshua coming?
The site is built on ASP.NET Core. It has some localization features but it's super complex and I had trouble just getting the menu titles to change.
For the actual data, I've just added a LanguageId column to books and series in the database to track it all. Hopefully, I can find more stuff soon!
First steps toward adding multi-lingual support to Best Commentaries:
bestcommentaries.com/es/series/
bestcommentaries.com/zh/judges/
So far, a lot of translated works, but hoping to add more originals and reviews/ratings. Navigation localization in progress.
It's been a fun 20+ years in web dev... :)
Was just informed that one of my @github repos is in the "top 0.001%" of all 28,000,000 projects: github.com/mediaelement...
Rejecting Theotokos, saying that Mary is only the mother to the human nature of the Son, would divine the Son's person, splitting him into a divine person and a human person.
All Christians can accept Theotokos, about Christ, while still properly appreciating, but not adding to, Mary.
Some protestants reject "Theotokos", that Mary is the "Mother of God" because they think it's related to Roman Catholic concepts like prayer to Mary.
But Theotokos is actually about Christology. Mary is mother to the person of the Son, who is both God and man, therefore, she is the Mother of God.
Interesting @yallversion finding:
Jeremiah 31:34 includes the plural imperative "Y’all must know (דְּע֖וּ) YHWH." yallversion.com/JER/31
But the LXX translates "know" as singular (γνῶθι) and that's what the author quotes in Hebrews 8:11. yallversion.com/HEB/8
Harvard's data backs up something I've been saying:
"Theology bots inevitably become therapy bots"
hbr.org/2025/04/how-...
4. Together, Y’all Are God’s Temple (1 Cor 3:16)
5. Y’all Aren’t Supposed to Do This Alone (Phil 2:12-13)
6. Jesus is Coming for All Y’all (Rev 22:16, 20)
passionequip.com/articles/und...
6 Ways 𝒀'𝒂𝒍𝒍 Clarifies the Meaning of Scripture:
1. Dominion is For All Y’all (Gen 1:28)
2. God Has a Name He Wants Y’all to Know (Exo 3:15)
3. God’s Plans Are Bigger than You (Jer 29:11)
Our friends at @FiveQ posted a talk called "Biblical Framework for Understanding and Using AI" from the Digital Media Conference. Hope it's helpful!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8hK...