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Story or History?

Thanks, Phil, for sharing Paul Tripp’s description of the Bible as a story with God’s annotated notes.  I think that is a good way of putting it.  But I have started to use ‘story” less and have been using the…

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Gospel and Community

Over the past two years I have thought, read, prayed, and talked a lot about the nature of the Gospel – its content and implications for life and ministry. This was a central component to the work of the Strategic…

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“Wonder . . .

. . . is involuntary praise.”  This marvelous statement from Edward Young appears on the cover of Wheaton College’s 2007 Christmas card. Gentle reader, may this be for you the most wonder-full time of year, in which your mind and…

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Narrative Theology

Paul Tripp made a helpful comment Sunday about the nature of biblical revelation.  The Bible, he said is a “theologically-annotated narrative,” a story that comes with “God’s notes.”  This comment does justice to the narrative structure of the Bible as…

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