C.S. Edds

"The mystery of the Trinity is a mystery that ought to lead to worship. It is the doctrine that as we conform to its reality, we become who we were made to be." @JosephGilbert_ writing about the Trinity for birdhouse today: brdh.org/party/god-unde…

CS Lewis after WWI and during WWII: this happened because of pagan imagination. JH Bavinck during Nazi occupation of The Netherlands: this is happening because of pagan imagination. Augustine after the fall of Rome: see above. All three give one hope: imagine a greater story.

The sooner the church comes to terms with the death of postmodernism and the birth of the new post-postmodernism (a terrible name), the better. We are arguing with a culture that no longer wishes to debate, but to belong.

Our culture's Anti-beatitudes shared at church: - Blessed are the gossips, for they'll be called the inner circle. - Blessed are the slanderers, for they'll be called unfiltered. - Blessed are the divisive, for they'll be called truth-tellers. - Blessed are the faction-builders, for they'll be called loyal friends. - Blessed are the peace-breakers, for they'l be called courageous. @Seth_Troutt

All that God is, He is of Himself—as Father, Son, and Spirit—in abundance, wealth, and fullness, and from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace (Jn. 1:16).

That God, who is by nature fullness of immeasurable inner-Trinitarian joy and love, would bring sinners—who are by nature children of wrath—into a participation of his life-fellowship: this is the beauty of redemption! brdh.org/party/all-that…

@travisjmont I wrote about this here! All that God is, He is of Himself—as Father, Son, and Spirit—in abundance, wealth, and fullness. From this fullness of life, God gives himself. brdh.org/party/all-that…

God’s aseity means He is the most blessed, because “it is more blessed to give than to receive.” And He is a cheerful giver.

@travisjmont Does PhD count as global campus?!

This will be a great time!

My PhD working topic: Great Leaps of Pretending: A Theology of the Dialectics of Imagination in the Ordo Salutis Drawing on J.H. Bavinck's and C.S. Lewis’ retrieval of Augustine, it contends that the imagination plays a constitutive role throughout the application of redemption.

@jballigood @MBTSDoctoral Great! I’m itching to talk to somebody at MBTS about this! My pastor (Matt Warren) keeps telling me I need to call @JGDuesing right away lol

@CodyEdds @MBTSDoctoral Forgive me, I should’ve said “CONGRATS” first!!

Officially accepted to the PhD program at @MBTSDoctoral! I plan on studying the function of the imagination in the Ordo Salutis. A big thanks to my pastor (a recent PhD grad at MBTS) who has continually supported and encouraged me to this.

@espinoza_dy The whole book is an exhausting neonomian treatise on sanctification that turns the joys of churchmanship into a burdensome law which must be kept to earn final salvation. Much of it (and the Baxter volume) is not found in Scripture, and the pieces that are, are made meritorious.

@CodyEdds The chapter on how pastors are to care for their congregations is spot on, or no?

Keach’s Glory of a True Church is to Congregants what Baxter’s Reformed Pastor is to Elders. And it’s not even close.

Photos of this handwritten essay by @DrJamesEglinton, introduction by @corycbrock, postscript by @tennantjc, translation by @postnuance, edited by @CodyEdds. Published for the first time, Herman Bavinck on The Origin and Value of Mythology: brdh.org/party/the-orig…

So now imagination, laughter, and play abide, these three; but the greatest of these is play.

Mentorship meetings with one of my pastors. Back porch view:

We are pleased to finally launch our stand alone site for Hanover Press! More to come as we look to resource scholars, students, and pastors. hanoverpress.com

@JeffreyPerry09 The difference between preaching about Christ and preaching Christ.

Pastor, your job in the pulpit is not to describe Christ from a distance. It is to press him into the hands of sinners sitting right in front of you.

"The special call of the gospel does not proceed from law and invite us to obedience, but it flows forth from grace and invites us to faith." -Herman Bavinck