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Counseling/Anxiety

Abiding in Peace through Anxiety

A House Built upon the Rock: Finding Our Identity in Christ

Panic and the Personal God

The Power of Remembrance in the Face of Death

What to Say to Christians Battling Anxiety

Words of Counsel_Part 1: A Biblical-Theological Foundation

Words of Counsel_Part 2: Letting Words Work

Family

Where the Outside Ends (A Reflection on My Father’s Cancer Battle)

God in the Ordinary

Why I wrote Finding God in the Ordinary

The Birth of Brawn

Language

Closing the Gaps: Perichoresis and the Nature of Language

The Connection between Metaphyics, Epistemology, and Language

Death, Dogma, and Discourse

The Emic and Etic, Immanent and Economic

Imaging Communion: An Argument for God’s Existence Based on Speech

In the Beginning Was the Word: John 1:1-5 and a Revelational Theory of Metaphor

In a World of Speech

A Kingdom of Listeners

Language and the Trinity: A Meeting Place for the Global Church

Literal, Metaphorical, or Neither?

A Theological Critique of Learner Autonomy

Where Person Meets Word_Part 1: Personalism in the Language Theory of Kenneth L. Pike

Where Person Meets Word_Part 2: The Convergence of Personalism and Scripture in the Language Theory of Kenneth L. Pike

Why Language Is Everything

Words for Communion

World through Word: Towards a Linguistic Ontology

PRESENTATION: Global Missions Fellowship at Westminster Theological Seminary: Kenneth Pike and the Emic/Etic Distinction in Relation to Missions

PRESENTATION: Global Missions Fellowship at Westminster Theological Seminary: Language as Communion Behavior in the Context of Missions

Literature

Beauty Embodied

Dostoyevsky and the Panacea for Personal Judgment

Meddling in the Mind of Melkor: The Silmarillion and the Nature of Sin

Miscellaneous

The Burden of Blood

Finding Truth in the Top 40

The Greatest Threat to the Gospel

Looking for Rewards in All the Wrong Places

Sound and Perspective

Stolen Capital: The Weight of Words in Hozier’s ‘Take Me to Church’

Seasonal

A Christmas Reflection

Finding Gratitude in Unlikely Places: A Thanksgiving Reflection

Oh Night Divine

The Trinity

Do You See How I See: The Trinitarian Roots of Human Perception

The Emic and Etic, Immanent and Economic: Perspectives on Theology from Language Theory

The Heart of Trinitarian Heresy

Language and the Trinity: A Meeting Place for the Global Church

A Note on Trinitarian Analogies

Solipsism or Empathy? Beating the Devil with His Own Tricks

A Trellis for Trinitarian Theology

Truth as a Person

You Are They: Human Identity and the Trinity

A Linguistic View on Divine Persons

Writing

A Christian View of Writing 

Poor Prose Is Poor Theology

We Who Work with Words: Towards a Theology of Writing

Russian Translation by Natalia Vakulenko

Writing to Strangers for the Savior

Book Reviews

John Frame, Theology in Three Dimensions