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An Eternal Foundation: Six Talks On The Trinity
Contributed by Mark Armstrong on Jun 24, 2010 (message contributor)
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1. Trinity And Creation
Contributed on Jun 24, 2010
The Trinity foreshadowed in creation.
The well known Christian author, Jim Packer, lectures in systematic theology at Regent’s College in Vancouver. One of his former students says that Packer started every class by saying, ‘Arise, friends, let us sing the Doxology!’ After singing and a word of prayer, he would then say to his ...read more
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2. Trinity In The Scriptures
Contributed on Jun 24, 2010
Scriptural support for the Trinity. The contribution of Tertullian.
Augustine said, ‘if you deny the Trinity you lose your soul, if you try to explain it you lose your mind’. The hope today is to avoid both of these pitfalls. But in order to do this, you will need to put your thinking caps on. And you’ll need to think because we are moving around the Bible and ...read more
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3. Trinity And Controversy
Contributed on Aug 10, 2010
A sample of trinitarian controversy in church history and its application to Jehovah’s Witnesses and the book "The Shack".
I remember a less than flattering incident when I was young. My sister and I wanted to watch different programs on TV. I think she wanted to watch ‘The Patty Duke Show’ and I wanted to watch ‘Lost in Space’. This was before the days of remote controls. So we sat in front of the TV for a whole hour ...read more
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4. Trinity In Salvation
Contributed on Aug 10, 2010
The persons of the Trinity working for our salvation.
On Saturday May 15, 2010, Jessica Watson arrived in Sydney after sailing around the world. It was a wonderfully inspiring effort. I once got sea sick sitting on a surf ski waiting for waves off Warriewood Beach. So you can imagine how I feel even thinking about sailing through huge seas on a yacht ...read more
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5. Trinity In Worship
Contributed on Aug 10, 2010
After considering some reasons why the Trinity is not always central in our tradition, discussing how the Trinity shapes liturgical substance.
‘Glory be to God the Father’, sings the church, ‘glory be to God the Son, glory be to God the Spirit, great Jehovah, Three in One’. What is this? we ask—praise to three gods? No, praise to one God in three persons. This is the God whom Christians worship—God in three persons. At the heart of the ...read more