Aaron Pendergrass

Lead Pastor; CFF, Santa Rosa, CA. Adjunct Faculty; @ccu_cags & @bryancollege. Board Member @HanoverPressLL. PhD student @gatewayseminary. Husband to @yazzthom

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@JoshuaHutchens Been there more times than I can count. Not a far drive from Fort Collins or Greeley, but windy, though! Enjoy!

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The pastoral prayer is the third most strategic and spiritually beneficial element in a church’s weekly gathering behind preaching and the Lord’s Supper.

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@Banks1999 Volume 1- Church History From Christ to Pre-Reformation by Everett Ferguson
Volume 2- Church History From Pre-Reformation to the Present Day by John D. Woodbridge and Frank A. James III

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@pj_schreiner He also cites Cyril, Augustine, and Chrysostom quite a bit for his conclusions.

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@pj_schreiner Of course. He also spends a significant amount of time on the nature of the resurrected bodies of the righteous/damned in his Supplement to the Summa.

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@JLSteffaniak @ColtonYarbro @FoundersMin The hymn doesn't say, "Thou changest not, thy compassions--they don't really exist," but rather, "thou changest not, thy compassions, they fail not." I'm concerned that barring emotion from the conversation is suggesting an unqualified impassibility as "the only" Reformed view.

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@JLSteffaniak @ColtonYarbro @FoundersMin Although I disagree with Baptist Paul Fiddes that "believing in an apathetic God produces apathetic believers," there is a theologial ethical concern at play here. Believing in an unaffectionate God can produce unaffectionate believers.

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@JLSteffaniak @ColtonYarbro @FoundersMin Perhaps barring theological language is coming from an etymological concern of there being "motion" in God. (e-motion) This opens up questions about God being Unmoved vs. Self-moved vs. Most-moved mover--so preventing "e-motion," preserves this conflict--but it comes at a cost.

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@JLSteffaniak @ColtonYarbro @FoundersMin Interesting. Have you seen any scholars within the broader academic literature that have predicated sensibilities toward God, or the divine nature? Our current psychological categories have made advancements in this conversation nuanced within anthropology and theology proper.

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@ColtonYarbro @FoundersMin @JLSteffaniak But, @JLSteffaniak could you identify how “sensibilities” could be a way forward, or helpful in this conversation? What would it mean to say that God has “sensibilities”? Easily offended (or capable to be offended)? Moral value judgments? Etc.? Some clarification is needed.

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@ColtonYarbro @FoundersMin @JLSteffaniak @JLSteffaniak Great video, Jordan! As a pastor in a church that subscribes to the 1689, I would also opt for the original language—given my “qualified” definition of impassibility, because I would say that God has affections (more than joy) and is “impassioned” (re., Lister).

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A+ to the student, but a D- to the spelling bee!

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When your spelling is better than your theological acumen 😂

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@JLSteffaniak @ChrisGibson_CJG @BakerAcademic I intended to message you two days ago when I saw your name in this new catalog. Congratulations, man. What an accomplishment—you are living your dream @JLSteffaniak

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“Scripture doesn’t infinitely mean anything, but it has an infinitude of meaning.” - Ephraim Radner.

Praise be to God that the Bible is inexhaustible. The infinite greatness of God, and his revelation, cannot be pinned down, imprisoned, or fully dissected and understood.

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“Prayer is the spiritual breath of a regenerate man…A regenerate man breathes in prayer to God, and pants after him; after more knowledge of him in Christ, after communion with him, after the discoveries of his love.” - John Gill, Body of Divinity, 2.110

Seek the kingdom!

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@matt_everhard You forgot to note that John Gill and Isaac Watts were also alive in this same period of the long 18th century!

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“All theology, when separated from Christ, is not only vain & confused, but is also mad, deceitful, spurious; for though the philosophers sometimes say excellent sayings, yet they have nothing but what is short-lived, & even mixed up with wicked & erroneous sentiments.” -Calvin

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@HanoverPressLL This is exciting to see!!