Theology 101: There’s a fine line between “I don’t like God telling me what I can and can’t do” and “God doesn’t exist.”

Bad Theology 101: “Love our enemies? Bless those who curse us?! Pray for those who persecute us?!! Be meek? Merciful? Peacemakers? Nah, bruh. We aren’t going to win the culture wars, vanquish our political and theological enemies, and enforce true religion that way!”

Theology 101: “Love your enemies” applies even to our opponents on political, social, moral, and religious issues. Disagree with conviction and passion, but also with mercy and grace.

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Theology 101: Heretics constantly accuse orthodox Christians of heresy.

Theology 101: Heresy does not develop because people stop reading their Bibles; heresy develops when people start reading their Bibles wrongly.

Theology 103: This book is designed to cure all manner of eschatological nonsense and to inoculate you from the same. a.co/d/dUpOjIi

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Theology 101: “He took on Himself death on our behalf, and He makes Himself an offering to the Father for our sakes.” (John of Damascus)

Theology 101: It might be time to put a moratorium on calling fellow Christians with whom we disagree on eschatology “blasphemers” and “heretics,” unless they actually reject the future return of Christ, resurrection of the dead, and restoration of creation. In fact, it is time.

Warmongers should not get what they want; they should lose what they have.

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Theology 101: “I’ve read parts of the Bible in English translation once, and now I’m an expert” has become “I’ve read parts of the church fathers once in English, and now I’m an expert.”

Reminder: social media is jam-packed with a host of over-confident influencers camping out on Dunning-Kruger’s plateau of illusory superiority, a.k.a., “Mount Stupid.”

Theology 101: We must let God’s grace cover our sin; we must never let our sin cloud his grace.

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Theology 101: I find it awesome that our Designer has designed designers who have designed designers.

Theology 101: “Whatever is opposite of what the church of my youth taught me” is not a solid foundation for your eschatology.

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Reading a whole bunch of things on a topic is not the same as research.

Theology 101: In graduate school we’re urged not to overstate our case. The ultimate overstatement is calling a contrary view “heresy” when it doesn’t transgress classic orthodox loci. But a false accusation of “heresy” is not just unscholarly; it’s unchristian.

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ANNOUNCEMENT: I just signed an agreement with a Brazilian publisher to translate and publish The AItheist Cycle in Portuguese. They will do so in a single volume. If any other publishers are interested in considering a 1-volume edition in any language, just reach out to me.

Modern life is an endless cycle of having too many AAA batteries and no AAs or too many AA batteries and no AAAs.

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Theology 101: If your church’s worship feels like a circus, don’t be surprised if its members behave like animals and act like clowns.

Theology 101: “There is but one method of healing appointed after we have gone wrong—the powerful application of the Word.” (John Chrysostom)

Bad Math 101: Harrison Ford made about $25 million on The Force Awakens. He only acted in about 25 minutes of that movie, which means he made a million dollars a minute. Along with preachers who only work an hour or two a week on Sunday mornings, that’s a sweet deal.

Theology 301: My chapter, “The Second Century in the Fourth: Eusebius and the Codification of Christian History,” will appear in the Baylor University Press volume, A Handbook to Second-Century Christianity, edited by Mike Bird and Scott Harrower, releasing November 30.

In this world, we are invited to come boldly before God’s throne of grace. In the new world, we will be invited to come bodily before God’s throne of glory.

Theology 101: Christ is The Seed of Abraham to whom the promise was given and in whom/by whom all promises are and will be fulfilled. Regardless of your view of eschatological details, apart from Christ there will be no partaking of Kingdom blessings now or in the future. Period.

Theology 101: Christ is the center of CHRISTian theology.

Theology 101: Unless the universe created itself, the “natural” revelation of God through creation is supernatural revelation.

Theology 101: In my view, four words that should not be in worship songs: • Woah • Gonna • Gotta • Yeah

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Theology 101: “Sick, our nature demanded to be healed; fallen, to be raised; dead, to rise again.” (Gregory of Nyssa)

Theology 101: The door to eternal life hangs on the triple hinge of the Incarnation, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus the God-Man.

Theology 101: In the classic Christian faith, right believing and right living—orthodoxy and orthopraxy—were never meant to be separated. Baptism as confession of faith and repentance from sin united doctrine and ethics from the beginning.

Theology 101: Apparently, performing a miracle is no basis for “sainthood.” (Matthew 7:22–23; 2 Thessalonians 2:9)

Theology 101: “The body is not an extraneous ornament or aid, but part of a person’s very nature.” (Augustine)

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Theology 101: My decades of labor as a patristic scholar didn’t make me a former Protestant; it made me a better Protestant. Patristic retrieval, after all, fueled the Reformation; and patristic retrieval will continue to fuel it.

Ok, but “NEO” is uncomfortably close to “NERO” from “The AItheist 2.0,” and that didn’t go so well.

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Update on “The AItheist” trilogy. The publisher that had great interest in the series (the lead publisher l said he loved it), ultimately turned it down as it faced marketing challenges.

Released in Kindle. Paperback coming soon…

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Becoming a better writer is a decades-long process of writing piles of garbage while reading piles of gold.