Episodes
Sunday Jun 06, 2021
Our Unillustratable God
Sunday Jun 06, 2021
Sunday Jun 06, 2021
In this Theology 101 LAB, we dissect this thought:
Theology 101: We need to drop flawed analogies like eggs, pretzels, and H2O, and embrace the utter unillustratability of the Triune God.
Wednesday Jun 02, 2021
By Now You Ought to Be Teachers...
Wednesday Jun 02, 2021
Wednesday Jun 02, 2021
In this Theology 101 LAB, we dissect this thought:
Theology 101: By banishing catechism toward membership, discipleship toward leadership, and training toward ordination from many of our churches, we've consigned our adult believers to an unending Sunday School program that essentially leads them nowhere.
Monday May 24, 2021
Atheism's Five-Scent Problem
Monday May 24, 2021
Monday May 24, 2021
In this Theology 101 LAB, we dissect this thought:
Theology 101: Atheists have an epistemology problem: the sufficiency of the five senses.
NOTE:
For a more technical treatment of a similar argument as mine, see Alvin Plantinga, “Is Naturalism Irrational?” in The Analytic Theist: An Alvin Plantinga Reader, ed. James F. Sennett (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998), 72-96. I readily admit that my own popular expression of this argument differs from Plantinga’s in its expression, scope, and quality.
Thursday May 20, 2021
Frequency of the Lord's Supper
Thursday May 20, 2021
Thursday May 20, 2021
In this Theology 101 LAB, we dissect this thought:
Theology 101: Nobody in the early church ever had to wonder when the next communion Sunday was going to be.
Wednesday May 19, 2021
Y'all Be Filled with the Spirit
Wednesday May 19, 2021
Wednesday May 19, 2021
In this Theology 101 LAB, we dissect this thought:
Theology 101: What if the plural, passive command in Ephesians 5:18—"y'all be filled with the Spirit"—is to be realized corporately, not individually, by being fully immersed in the sphere in which the Spirit primary operates—the church?
Tuesday May 18, 2021
Running Church Like a Business
Tuesday May 18, 2021
Tuesday May 18, 2021
In this Theology 101 LAB, we dissect this thought:
Theology 101: If you run your church like a business, don’t be surprised if your members complain like customers and then go shop somewhere else.