Author: Conversation Seeking Communion (@eerdmansbooks) + Practices of Love (@brazospress) • Public Theology Fellow @centrekirby • Co-Founder @proneighbor
Pittsburgh, PA
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It’s official!
I’m absolutely thrilled to announce that my next book will be published by @eerdmansbooks.
It’s tentatively titled: “Conversation Seeking Communion: The Art of Christian Disagreement.”
It hasn’t been written yet, but you should definitely order a copy today.
I love praying the Hours. It's one of my favorite spiritual disciplines.
Sometimes, though, I want to start early. Particularly for Terce (9 a.m.).
But I constantly have to repress this inclination. It's important to be punctual; but don't start early.
Because one of the essential, formative features of the Hours (esp. in our modern society) is interruption.
The willingness to stop what you're doing—anywhere, anytime—and give due praise.
That's how the discipline really works on you. It resets your schedule and reorients your attitude.
I am so very excited for my Field Guide to Christian Discourse to drop next year with @eerdmansbooks, and to get it out there in living rooms, classrooms, sanctuaries, conference rooms, and corner store racks. I think it's going to be very useful in many areas of life.
Demons have already started cowering, and angels tell me it's going to be a real banger.
It would help edify Christ’s Body and advance His Kingdom if you would invite me to preach at your church, speak at your conference, lecture in your class, lead a workshop, or teach the book (or Practices of Love) on a retreat.
And guess what? I would be happy to do it!
There's a speaker request form on my website. Shoot me a message and let's help the Church learn how to have difficult conversations without demonizing each other, dividing our congregations, and destroying every relationship in our lives!
kyledavidbennett.com/contact
Spent the day yesterday talking with pastors and academics from the North and South Hills of Pittsburgh about this book from @jhsherrard.
We focused on Chapter 3: “The Pastor’s Friend” and Chapter 8: “The Pastor as Ecclesiologist.” It’s a great book—not only for pastors, but for anyone interested in spiritual formation, life in the Church, and how Augustine is still relevant today.
I particularly liked Chapter 2: “The Pastor’s Rule.” Augustine’s Rule has been quite formative for my own life and our family’s Rule.
Kyle David Bennett retweeted
Vote to advance as much righteousness as possible, trust in the supremacy of Christ above all earthly powers, and remember that “history in its entirety and in its parts corresponds to the counsel of God and exhibits the glory of that counsel.” — Herman Bavinck
Doing what we can to make our kids Christians and good citizens.
So yesterday’s Sabbath Family Meeting agenda was packed:
Dedication means the commitment of a man’s whole life to something ontologically higher than himself.
| Thomas Merton |
Philipp Melanchthon sat down with Jean Calvin post-Reformation Day to discuss the special sauce for reforming the Church (while the paparazzi eavesdropped). It quickly turned into Jean flexing and flaunting his knowledge of the Bible.
Typical Jean.
Tomorrow’s Sunday School Oral Pop Quiz with the boys (based on Jonah 1 & 2):
1. What does “Jonah” mean in Hebrew?
2. How does Jonah’s name and office relate to Noah and Jesus?
3. Joppa was a city of which nation?
4. What does “Tarshish” mean in Hebrew?
5. What is ironic (and perhaps disingenuous) about Jonah’s claim in 1:3 and 1:9?
6. In 2 Kings 13, the Lord has compassion on Israel through a particular nation. How does this relate to Jonah?
7. Nineveh is the capital city of which nation? How does this pertain to 2 Kings 13?
8. Most of Jonah’s prayer in chap. 2 comes from which book of the Bible?
9. True or False: God makes the whale/shark/fish spit Jonah up.
10. Jonah was in the belly three days. Jesus was in the grave three days. How do both relate to salvation history?
As we wind down this weekend, and prepare for the Lord’s Day, we reflect on His work in our lives, and anticipate what He will do this upcoming week, month, and year.
Inevitably, this means, the polls next week. What will happen? Who will win? Don’t let it lead you to lose faith, hope, and love in our prophet, priest, and prince. He is the wind of the future.
This was a very fun episode.
Throw the themes of boredom and bosses, the topics of acedia and envy, old Christian thinkers like Evagrius of Pontus and John Cassian into a blender and out will pop a delicious episode like this.
Listen, download, stream, share, nibble on it, repeat.
New Two Pour Spirits episode dropped today!
How to Be a More Hopeful Neighbor: Embrace Boredom and Boss Better
The gist?
Commune with your circumstances.
And it's better to be a good neighbor than an excellent leader.
Go have a listen!
projectneighbor.org/twopours…
Kyle David Bennett retweeted
“The Reformation, in spite of its substantial contribution to the history of doctrine and the shock it delivered to theology and the church in the sixteenth century, was not an attack upon the whole of medieval theology or upon Christian tradition.
The Reformation assaulted a limited spectrum of doctrinal and practical abuses with the intention of reaffirming the values of the historical church catholic.
Thus, the mainstream Reformers reconstructed the doctrines of justification and the sacraments and then modified their ideas of the *ordo salutis* and of the church accordingly;
but they did not alter the doctrines of God, creation, providence, and Christ, and they maintained the Augustinian tradition concerning predestination, human nature and sin.
The reform of individual doctrines, like justification and the sacraments, occurred within the bounds of a traditional, orthodox, and catholic system which, on the grand scale, remained substantively unaltered.”
- Richard Muller
I have a confession to make and I hope you’ll forgive me:
Today I started listening to Christmas music.
How does the triune God love His enemies?
The Father orders a place be created for them. Namely, hell.
When He could have annihilated them.
The Son willingly engages with their chief representative. Namely, Satan.
When He could have ignored him.
The Spirit patiently endures them and sustains their breath. Namely, everyone.
When He could have withdrawn from them.
Let us learn from our Father, Frater, and Friend on how to love our enemies.
My daughter in college texted me excitedly that it’s been about a month since we released a @proneighbor Two Pour Spirits podcast episode and she’s excited to listen to the new episode that dropped today.
I just about wept.
It’s a wonderful reminder: Don’t try to make it big. Or be smarter than everyone else. Or have cutting-edge analyses. Just be faithful; step up to the mic; and continue to offer teaching to your children diligently (and digitally).
