And the humility and the patience are best driven by a sure confidence in Scripture as the faithful word of God. The lazy approaches that Peter Leithart highlights overwhelmingly arise from a weak regard for Holy Scripture, leading people to be impatient with it and proud towards it.

Crucial to all this are the virtues of patience and humility. We must humbly recognize and acknowledge the limits of our knowledge. And we must be patient enough to take whatever time the text requires of us, even if we never arrive at an understanding.

These all died in faith, not having received the browser tabs promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

sometimes i want to cry for fun and reread the bit in the Odyssey where his dog recognises him after so so so long but Odysseus can't pet him without betraying his disguise/fake identity so just has to walk past him, who has been neglected as well, wagging his tail in hope :(

Had the privilege of joining Jordan Bush for a conversation on the subject of social media.

One suspects that John Hooper might not have sparked the Vestarian Controversy had he seen the bottom of its slippery slope.

I've long suggested that we should regularly 'taboo' such shibboleths and tribal designations and try to communicate our convictions and practice in unfreighted terminology. alastairadversaria.com/2011/11/26/of-…

A door blows open in your mind when you learn about the suffix -le, it explains so much. People used to add it to verbs to mean ‘more than once’ or continuously—so originally, to ramble is to ‘roam’ on, to jostle is to joust repeatedly, and to sparkle is to emit lots of sparks.

Goals.

This is fun! lordle.com

When I first started studying theology, Dr. John Frame was an important influence. I wrote him an email to which he sent a very gracious response, an encouragement at a critical moment in my studies. Dr Frame has been an inspiration to me and many others.

Happy Birthday!

'The more focused one is upon the flaws in opposing positions, the less attentive one is likely to be to the issues with one’s own.' -- Alastair Roberts (Alastair Roberts).

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Very excited to read these! Numbers is such a remarkable and underappreciated book.

Virtues and Bible Reading
with: Alastair Roberts

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People watching at the eclipse in NYC.

“While considering myself to be championing the Lordship of Christ, I became fixated on contentious debates and increasingly dulled to the things of God.” Alastair Roberts

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