Way back in February of '08 I was excited about a book I was reading and I blogged about it. The book was Mark D. Thompson's excellent A Clear and Present Word: The Clarity of Scripture. A commenter recently happened upon that post and asked me if I had any further reflections. Over a year on, I can say that there are two things that have really stuck with me from this book: God goes with His Word. Or as Thompson put it, "God accompanies his own word, bringing about the appropriate human...

I just finished Bruce Ware's Father, Son, and Holy Spirit: Relationship, Roles, and Relevance. It's quite clear what century the book was written in because Ware focuses a lot of attention—as well he should—on what the Trinity means for gender roles. But I found it warm-hearted, clearly written, and helpfully concise. At the end of his book, Ware offers ten applications from the doctrine of the Trinity: God intends that his very nature—yes, his triune and eternal nature—be expressed in our...