John David Trentham

Husband, Daddy; Professor, Dean of Students @SBTS; Editor, Christian Education Journal

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“Why limit your education to garnering skills that AI will eventually learn, when you can become a person that AI could never be?” https://t.co/8AbIrjDnzf

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“It has always been in my observation of human nature, that a man who has any good reason to believe in himself never flourishes himself before the faces of other people in order that they may believe in him.” ~C.D. / David Copperfield

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“I wish we would hear more preaching about the harm we do from the things we do not face and from all the questions that we give Instant Answers to.” ~F. O’Connor

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"If my life is motivated by my ambition to leave a legacy, what I'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition." ~R. Mullins

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"Consorting with a prostitute is one thing in a depraved society, but something quite different in the prophecy of Hosea. And the fact that some people strip in their drunken, uninhibited parties does not make it immoral to be naked in the bath." ~Augustine of Hippo

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“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.” ~N. Hawthorne

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“We hold each other’s lives in our open hands, not in clenched fists.” ~Adaon (The Black Cauldron, L. Alexander)

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If your mode of critique operates and/or succeeds by casting shame on a person God loves, be ashamed and shut your mouth.

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"I am a Christian because I have seen the love of God lived out in the lives of people who know Him." ~Rich Mullins (1996)

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“A common trait of dictators, revolutionaries, and ecclesiastical authoritarians alike is the refusal both to laugh at themselves and to permit others to laugh at them.” ~Conrad Hyers (The Comic Vision and the Christian Faith)

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Where we spontaneously look for "information" on how to live shows how we truly feel and who we really have confidence in. ~D. Willard

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"Our future, however far we look, is a natural extension of the faith by which we live now and the life in which we now participate. Eternity is now in flight and we with it, like it or not." ~D. Willard

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Very pleased to release the latest issue of the Christian Educational Journal! https://t.co/YhsGziQYQ9
My editorial, "Rejoice in Glorious Hope," available here: https://t.co/pR5t9NeQok

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“To love another person is to see the face of God.” ~V. Hugo

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"Listening for God's voice in scripture doesn't put us in the position of having infallible opinions. It puts us... in possession of a vocation." ~Tom Wright

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"Do not be a grumbler, for this leads to blasphemy." ~The Didache

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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. —W. H. Auden https://t.co/5KLsYg1s9z

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“You can’t preserve your happiness by putting it away in mothballs.” -E. Hemingway #Jamesfourfourteen

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"Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise, you're making their destiny not brighter, but darker." ~CS Lewis

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