“No Christian will get to heaven and think all they went through on earth wasn’t worth it.” A blessing to preach at FBC Provo this morning.

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Language is important, especially within the local church. In this ep, Josh is joined by Dr. @edromine to discuss their pet peeve of the hierarchical language used within local churches for their leadership. Listen wherever you get your pods. YouTube: youtu.be/v0773HqmeoA?is=zeOi…

Since when did Joel Webbon talk like that? @Phil_Johnson_

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Simple misunderstanding. Let's calm the waters and give ourselves time to connect. I've reached out. I'm a behind-the-scenes kind of guy. We'll work it out behind the scenes.

You’re arguing against a straw man, Ed. No one thinks a sermon should cite like in an academic paper. In fact, most preachers writing academic papers do not even know how to properly cite things in those. What we are talking about is something like what MacArthur did. He could say, “Packer said, ...,” or “as one commented, ...” My question to you what not about whether or not you “don’t see an issue with not citing in a sermon like an academic paper,” but rather why you feel the need to argue a position that is not even the view of Buck’s own church, or perhaps even Buck himself? Why do you feel the need to say his previous practice was totally blameless when Buck himself, in accord with his church authority, sees a need to change his ways? Why do you feel the need to go beyond the view of Phil Johnson, Tom Ascol, and Buck’s own church to say he’s totally without fault in what he was doing? That is my question to you.

Seeing some buzz about the eternal generation of the Son (EGS), for those of you who might not know what all that means here’s an attempt to let you in on the topic. The EGS is a doctrine affirming that the Son possesses his divine nature through being eternally begotten of the Father, thereby holding the same divine essence/nature/being as the Father. This all has stood as foundational to the doctrine of the Trinity and has been affirmed across the Nicene and Athanasian Creeds and by virtually every significant theologian (that I can think of) over the last 1800 years. The doctrine has several critical dimensions. The Father’s generation of the Son comprises a necessary act of God, not a contingent decision; a distinction crucial because if the Son’s existence depended on the Father’s optional choice, the Son would not possess true deity or equality with the Father. This generation occurs eternally, not as a completed event in the distant past but as a timeless act of perpetual present (simultaneously ongoing and ever finished). Importantly, the Father generates the Son’s personal subsistence rather than the divine essence itself, while simultaneously communicating the entire divine essence to him. When the Father eternally begets the Son and communicates the divine nature to him, the divine nature remains undivided, accounting for a second divine person without creating a second God. The doctrine employs “begetting” language deliberately. The idea is this: just as Adam fathered Seth by communicating human nature to him, so the Father has eternally begotten the Son, eternally communicating divine nature to him (though this creaturely analogy must not be used to measure the divine relation itself). While the doctrine transcends our human comprehension, limited as my thinking is by time and my finite reality, it remains a teaching (as systematic theologian Scott Swain words it) “given to us in the gospel” and grasped through faith.