Kevin Choate

college pastor @ wildwood community church

[ClutchPoints @ClutchPoints]

"Does [Shai] sell calls sometimes? Absolutely, but so do 287 other players in the NBA sell calls... When they weren't a championship contender... nobody was complaining. They're complaining now because they're winning."

Mike Breen on SGA.

(via @dpshow)

[Thunder Film Room @ThunderFilmRoom]

This is why you wear the shirt.

[Kevin Choate @kevinchoate_]

@jbryanporter @okcthunder @mikebeckhamsm Awesome!! Representing LOUD CITY!!!

[Luguentz Dort 🇭🇹 @luthebeast]

For the fans who rode with us all season. One game at a time. @PlayersTribune

https://t.co/h3vP0hsXp8

[Royce Young @royceyoung]

NBA Finals merchant.

[Royce Young @royceyoung]

Here are all 13 of SGA's buckets from Game 4 -- a showcase of insane skill and shotmaking, beautiful basketball from all areas of the floor.

He took a total of SIX free throws before the Wolves started intentionally fouling, and there are people, including a lot of media, fixated on the SIX free throws, and not the masterpiece SGA painted.

It's weird.

[Kevin Choate @kevinchoate_]

@KnowingFaithPod @jt_english Will there be Bible study material for groups associated with this book?

[Kevin Choate @kevinchoate_]

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[River City Baptist Church @RCBCRichmond]

“It is the will of God to have the Spirit of God use the Word of God to make the children of God look like the Son of God.”

—@HBCharlesJr

Full message: https://t.co/3VYzR00HpJ

[Andrew Schlecht @AndrewKSchlecht]

This run was electric from the Thunder to start the 4th

Just watch Dort and Kenrich. They really flipped this game.

SGA's offensive explosion was the loudest part of this, but it doesn't happen without Dort and Kenrich locking the Heat up.

[Matthew McKellar @dr_mckellar]

Great to spend this week in a winter term preaching class ⁦@SWBTS⁩ with these gifted text-driven preachers!

[NBA @NBA]

A 39-point scoring outburst by SGA sends the @okcthunder to Vegas!

Take a look inside OKC's #RaceForTheEmiratesNBACup journey before their Semifinals matchup on Saturday. Tickets on sale now!

🎟️: https://t.co/9OGFx3cFNB

[Midwestern Seminary @MBTS]

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[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

The Lord didn’t check who inside the house was worthy. He checked for blood on the doorposts.

None of us is worthy. Only the blood of Jesus can cover us.

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

“There is a reason the Reformation lit up Europe.”

— Mark Dever 🔥

I watch this every year. Never gets old.

[Matthew Barrett @MattMBarrett]

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Here are a few endorsements:

"One will be hard-pressed to find a more comprehensive explanation of trinitarian doctrine than this collection of essays. Matthew Barrett has assembled a prestigious team of scholars to explain what the Trinity is and why it still matters. On Classical Trinitarianism is an outstanding achievement in modern scholarship on the Christian doctrine of God."
-@mbird12 Michael Bird, deputy principal at Ridley College in Melbourne, Australia and author of A Bird's-Eye View of Luke and Acts

"On Classical Trinitarianism is a breathtaking accomplishment. An astonishing array of contributions maps the field of trinitarian theology—historical, dogmatic, and polemical. The forty chapters, written by prominent theologians from each of three major branches of the church, are a major refutation of the so-called revival of the Trinity in twentieth-century theology. This publication is a serious, in-depth reassertion of classical Nicene theology over against the recent onslaught of social trinitarianism with its rationally comprehensible and compositional (and, often, subordinationist) view of the Trinity. Anyone attempting a return to the social trinitarianism of the previous century will have to reckon with Matthew Barrett's major accomplishment in this volume."
-Hans Boersma, the Order of St. Benedict Servants of Christ Chair in Ascetical Theology at Nashotah House Theological Seminary, Wisconsin

"Evangelical retrieval of classical trinitarianism is a vital project. This massive resource represents various approaches and levels of polemical intensity along with a core set of convictions. I can't believe I read the whole thing! But its many fine essays convey valuable insights, sound some necessary alarms, and pose enduring questions."
-Daniel J. Treier, Gunther H. Knoedler Professor of Theology and PhD program director at Wheaton College

"This admirable book makes the rediscovery of trinitarian theology truly exciting. After showing the struggles of the early Fathers for an adequate terminology to express the mystery of the Trinity, it carefully traces the history of the doctrine. The book also provides a healthy corrective to the many ways that contemporary theology has strayed from the tradition of Nicaea." -Michael J. Dodds, OP, professor of theology at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley, California "With a wide variety of historical, dogmatic, and critical essays, this book invites and equips its readers to join the revival of classical trinitarian theism."
-Michael Gorman, professor of philosophy at The Catholic University of America

"Like a meteor on the scene of contemporary theology, Matthew Barrett's edited volume, On Classical Trinitarianism, makes a big impression. Physically, it is a massive book, full of hefty articles by many of the world's leading theologians. Intellectually, it is an equally massive response to recent innovations in the doctrine of God—from social trinitarianism to eternal functional subordinationism—in favor of orthodox trinitarian theology and its attendant doctrine of divine simplicity. It is also a reminder of the importance of thinking with ecclesial tradition and of the corresponding dangers, when talking about the profoundest of mysteries, of trying to think about God apart from it—lest even Christians forget that they are trinitarian monotheists and that God is simply Father, Son, and Spirit."
-John Betz, associate professor of systematic theology at the University of Notre Dame

"Matthew Barrett's remarkable collection shows evangelicalism getting its doctrinal house in order, but its importance also lies well outside evangelicalism as an ecumenical collection: in authorship, mood, method, and—most of all—common confession of the Nicene faith. Everything we could wish for is here in abundance: attention to the Bible, history, doctrine, texts, figures, and vocabulary. Like some collection of glorious music or poetry offered on the anniversary of a beloved monarch as a 'garland,' On Classical Trinitarianism is a magnificent garland in honor of the Nicene Creed after seventeen centuries."
-@AP_Davison, Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford

"This is a marvelous primer on the church's historic understanding of the Trinity. Its topics and authors have been very well chosen. May God use it to renew our discipleship today, growing everyone who reads it in the knowledge and love of God."
-Douglas A. Sweeney, dean of Beeson Divinity School at Samford University

"On Classical Trinitarianism is the most significant text published this year, if not this century. While a trinitarian renaissance certainly began in the twentieth century, distinctly modern and postmodern echoes of ancient heresies arose to challenge believers who seek to restate with integrity for our day 'the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints' (Jude 1:3). The scholars herein, wisely gathered by Matthew Barrett, not only represent a wide spectrum of Christian tradition but offer deep studies into orthodoxy's exegetical and historical basis and helpfully describe the contours of this indispensable dogma. Renewing our understanding of God the Trinity so that we may worship him truly and confess him properly will be the best way to celebrate the signal accomplishment of Nicaea. So, please, take up and read!"
-@MusingsOnChrist Malcolm Yarnell, research professor of theology at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

"On Classical Trinitarianism presents not a 'Nicene option' but the Nicene necessity . Against the revisionism of some of the most popular trinitarian theologians of the last fifty years, a team of mature theologians makes the definitive case that Nicaea's trinitarian theology is materially necessary for a biblical, evangelical, catholic, and orthodox faith. This is the best kind of polemic—one in which the positive vision outshines the object of critique." Matt Jenson, professor of theology at Torrey Honors College at Biola University "Matthew Barrett has compiled the perfect guest list of authors to celebrate the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea. This is the perfect textbook for learning the biblical and trinitarian grammar of God—and for learning why retrieving classical trinitarianism matters more than ever."
-@VanhoozerKevin, research professor of systematic theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

"The essays in this collection, individually and collectively, offer a comprehensive account of that fundamental doctrine of the Christian faith, the mystery of the Trinity. Attempts by some theologians to squeeze and crush that mystery into a new scholasticism of expectations have to be deflected, pushed back, from within a robust appreciation of what we have been given in good faith and hope. Contemporary theology has replaced the burden of false histories by a bondage to the future. Our faith has become suspended between the past and the future. Our memory of that faith has sometimes become weak and patchy, and wherever memory fades, so too does Christian identity. Here in these essays, new voices of classical Christianity are giving us the means to bring 'what has been' together with 'what we are now'; with this collection we have been given an opportunity to act, to live within our faith today and grow in devotion. The essays in On Classical Trinitarianism deserve to be recognized as signs that there still is a right path: that hard-earned scholarship can still point the way for those who seek direction or strengthening. In these essays, the reader finds the fundamental doctrine of Christian faith—God existing in the reality of Trinity—received, remembered, and given energy and clarity. The result is a diverse collection of insights, explorations, and renewal that remains true to the authentic history of Christian faith seeking understanding. Reading these essays, you will recognize both true scholarship at work and the present fruits of the Spirit."
-Michel Rene Barnes, associate professor emeritus of theology at Marquette University

"Controversy, in the hand of our triune God, drives the church into deeper clarity concerning its beliefs. That proved true in the Arian controversy that produced the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed. It has also proven true in the modern evangelical controversy over the doctrine of the Trinity, and On Classical Trinitarianism is strong evidence of that deepening clarity. Matthew Barrett has brought together forty essays by trinitarian scholars that explore the lofty theological mountain peaks of the Trinity, the eternal generation of the Son, the spiration of the Holy Spirit, God's simplicity, aseity, and impassibility, and inseparable operations. Such doctrines require hard thinking, and this is not a book for the intellectually faint of heart, but the fruit of such profound theology is magnificent doxology as we bow before the incomprehensible mystery of our infinite Creator and Redeemer."
-@JoelBeeke, professor of homiletics and systematic theology at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan

"The Trinity gives coherence to Christian faith and life. While multiauthor volumes often lack coherence, a beautifully biblical and classically catholic vision of the Trinity draws these contributors together. Presenting a positive, and overwhelmingly persuasive, depiction of ideas such as divine simplicity, processions, missions, and appropriations, this book has potential to change permanently how many modern Christians think about the Trinity. Though it is likely naive to hope that this will be the case, this material should kill and bury any notion of subordination in the Trinity, showing that such dead ideas are incompatible with the living faith of the church. A lot remains at stake in trinitarian theology, and this volume goes a long way toward illustrating why and how."
-Ryan M. McGraw, Morton H. Smith Professor of Systematic Theology at Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary

[Drew @drewdyck]

Powerful article on how Malcolm Gladwell rediscovered his faith.

“Maybe we have difficulty seeing the weapons of the spirit because we don’t know where to look, or because we are distracted by the louder claims of material advantage. But I’ve seen them now, and I will never be the same.”

https://t.co/ryi8qZmXna

[Expositors Collective @expositcllctv]

“To love to preach is one thing, to love those to whom we preach quite another.”

-D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

[Dr. Michael J. Svigel @Svigel]

My hurried reaction to What It Means to be Protestant by @gavinortlund. A few points:
I write my responses from a perspective of a patristic scholar of some twenty years.
I read the book in two days, so I am not deeply reflecting, just reacting.
I have been grading papers, so I decided to assign a letter grade to each of GA's chapters.
I have more detailed notes, but I am only sharing a few thoughts per chapter. 1/14

[Expositors Collective @expositcllctv]

This video has gone viral on instagram (for good reason) - be encouraged by Ray Ortlund's exhortation towards pastoral faithfulness and tenderness: