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New Book Release

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Dear friends, After years of research, writing, revising, and more rounds of editing than I care to count, I'm delighted to share that my newest book is finally available on Amazon. The Craft of Systematic Theology: An Exegetical and Sequential Blueprint for Building a Doctrinal System https://share.google/ DHkvoboXsRorZ7uZS This has been one of the most ambitious projects I've ever undertaken. At roughly 600 pages and nearly 190,000 words, it is the book I wish someone had handed me years ago. Most books on theological method explain what systematic theology is or why it matters. Those are important questions, but they leave another question largely unanswered: How do you actually do systematic theology? Not in broad strokes or general principles, but as a disciplined, repeatable process that moves from biblical text to doctrinal formulation. That gap has been noted before. Stanley Porter and Steven Studebaker observed that most discussions of theological method p...
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Enslaved to an Image: Pornography, the Brain, and the Pastoral Responsibility of the Church

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      Enslaved to an Image: Pornography, the Brain, and the Pastoral Responsibility of the Church J. Neil Daniels “I was held fast, not in fetters clamped upon me by another, but by my own will, which had the strength of iron chains. The enemy held my will in his power and from it he had made a chain and shackled me. For my will was perverse and lust had grown from it, and when I gave in to lust habit was born, and when I did not resist the habit it became a necessity.” —Augustine, Confessions 8.5 Abstract Pornography has become the defining sexual pathology of contemporary Western culture, and its presence within the church is not peripheral. Drawing on Heath Lambert, R. Albert Mohler Jr., John Piper, William R. Cutrer, Andrew David Naselli, and Wayne Grudem, this essay develops an integrated account of pornography’s nature, mechanism, and moral weight from confessional evangelical and Reformed perspectives. It argues that pornography is not a behavior...
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