Denominations in the minority tend to be more fervent in a region. Anglicans in London are more likely to be there for "image" reasons than the Baptists down the street, but the converse is true in Waco. Deducing which trad is true from this sociological phenomena is a dead end.

Fear God and you’ll preach to transform people, fear people and you’ll preach to transform God.

Is “the liturgical rule” in the room right now? 👀

A fantastic book that should get a wide reading. My wife is the Chief Operating Officer of one of the schools Seel started (The Cambridge School). This is someone who has walked the walk.

Evangelicalism would be in much better shape today if instead of a Second Great Awakening we'd have had a second First Great Awakening.

Would be a pretty epic toll if the the Baptists got an Anglican to convert & take this job.

Facebook quiz idea: Which of the 7 Churches in Revelation is Yours?

It was a privilege to be interviewed by the legendary Ken Myers for the likewise legendary Mars Hill Audio. This new issue is out now, and I spy terrific company Jeffrey Bilbro DANIEL McINERNY Joseph Minich and others! mha-members.org/journals/mars-…

Scripture, tradition, & reason don’t interact like a three-legged stool, balancing each other out, but a tricycle. Scripture is the front wheel & tradition & reason are the back wheels. We listen for the Spirit in tradition & reason & we listen to the Spirit in Scripture.

Re the thing w/ Onesimus. I, Paul, am DM’ing you from my own account. I will Venmo you. Epaphras says hi! TTYL.

Few know this but Jonathan Edwards originally published Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God under this title.

"We're commanded to be filled not with redemptive history, but with the Holy Spirit." -Sinclair Ferguson

The wonderful musicians of All Saints | Dallas released a song today for the Feast of the Transfiguration. An absolutely beautiful rendering of Psalm 99! distrokid.com/hyperfollow/so…

Nothing will help you critique the present more than appreciating the past.

Thankful to Rusty Reno and the wonderful people First Things for putting on another wonderful retreat in NYC! Also thankful to my friend Bruce who took me to see Dan White! My first magic show, and it was magical.

Yesterday, I mentioned a personal suicide loss in my sermon. Immediately afterwards, I heard 3 stories in my new congregation from those who have also been affected. There are some wounds we don't often get permission (or feel safe) to share about. The church can be different.

Joseph Ratzinger: "Freedom is not an opting out. It is an opting in — a participation in Being itself. Hence authentic freedom can never be attained by turning away from God. Such a choice would ultimately disregard the very truth we need in order to understand ourselves."

"What coming and what returning sinner need dispair of acceptance? No man can be worse than St. Paul was before his conversion; and no man can be worse than St. Peter was after his conversion." -Augustus Toplady

The Covenant Seminary FSI conference is always worth attending, but esp this year w Derek Rishmawy speaking on Divine Holiness.

If you enter every conversation assuming you know the most, you'll leave every conversation having learned the least. Humility is the path to wisdom.