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Henry Center
by Henry Center
The Henry Center seeks to bridge the gap between the academy and the church by cultivating resources and communities that advance Christian wisdom. To learn more, please visit our website at henrycenter.org. The best way to stay connected with us is to subscribe to our newsletter, but we're also on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Youtube. We'd love to see you at one of our upcoming events, hosted at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. This podcast features our public lectures where scholars and pastors offer careful reflection on a range of biblical, theological, and ecclesial topics.
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What Does John Tell Us about Idolatry | Steve Bryan
Lecture Title - Reading John Among Rivals, Old and New The Gospel of John cuts across the grain of secular culture in much the same way as it entered into the ancient world—as a text that sets out a striking claim about the presence of the invisible God in the material world. We understand what...
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What Does Luke Tell Us About Hospitality | Jeannine Brown
Lecture Title - Narrative Theologizing in the Gospels: Luke and Hospitality It often seems easier and more obvious to go to New Testament letters for theology than to the Gospels. Yet the Gospel writers are themselves “theologizing” in light of the arrival of the Messiah, and they offer rich...
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Should We Pray for Healing | Interviewing Todd Billings Part 2
Discussion Topic - Healing and Resurrection Hope Resurrection hope is often muted in churches today as cultural forces of the modern West deny the reality and potency of death. What does genuine resurrection hope entail? Cancer patient J. Todd Billings and Taylor Worley recognize the tendency to...
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Should We Pray for Healing | Interviewing Todd Billings Part 1
Discussion Topic - Healing and Resurrection Hope Praying for healing is a controversial topic because it is difficult to know how to pray for someone with an incurable illness. Should "incurable" even be part of a Christian vocabulary? What does it mean to pray with someone rather than pray for...
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How to Ward off Despair | D. A. Carson
Lecture Title - A Firm Foundation: Six Pillars of Faith in the Midst of Suffering and Death Without exception, human beings come face to face with suffering and evil. We may entertain only the vaguest and most cliché-driven grasp of such matters until we ourselves suffer, or until we ourselves...
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How Does the Incarnation Integrate Science & Theology | Kevin Vanhoozer
Lecture Title - T. F. Torrance’s Kataphysical Poetics: How the Incarnation Relates Science to Theology For T.F. Torrance, theological and scientific inquiry stand or fall together. Whereas Western scientists and theologians, ancient and modern, too often depend on universal methods and criteria,...
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What Are the Emotions of God | John Piper
Lecture Title - The Glory of God and the Gladness of Man: Essential Affections in Edwards and the Life of the Church "Edwards probed the affections and religious experience with an intensity unique to the eighteenth century and perhaps the centuries since," McClymond and McDermott tell us in…
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What Is the Joy of All Joys | John Piper
[An archived sermon from Trinity College chapel] Sermon Title - What is the Joy of all Joys? Do you feel more loved by God when he makes much of you or when at great cost to himself frees you to enjoy making much of him forever? Thinking and preaching through this question has been one of Dr.…
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How Should Christians View Religious Diversity | Harold Netland
Discussion Topic - Religious Pluralism and Christianity A fuller discussion of this issue is available in an essay written by Dr. Harold Netland, which is available for free online at: www.christoncampuscci.org Until the modern era, Christians largely took it for granted that Christianity is the...
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What does Mark Tell Us About Suffering | Elizabeth Shively
Lecture Title - Embracing the Cross: Scriptural Patterns and the Challenge of Discipleship in Mark In the Gospel of Mark, Jesus calls his followers to embark on a transformative journey marked by suffering and self-sacrificial service, with the promise of a glorious future beyond immediate...
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Intercultural Perspectives on Ministry Among Emerging Adults | Alcántara, Bell Profit, & Roh
Intercultural perspectives on emerging adulthood bring important depth and texture to any and all conversations about emerging adulthood. Each panelist in our intercultural perspectives panel share fresh stories and significant experiences drawn from their time working in non-white, immigrant…
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What Is the Dream Church | Interviewing Greg Waybright Part 2
[Discussion/interview date: March 26th 2009] The Center was pleased to welcome Trinity's former president back to campus. Dr. Waybright addressed the subject of ecclesiology through consideration of two passages in Ephesians. His talks are entitled "The Dream Church". His first sermon covered...
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What Is the Dream Church | Interviewing Greg Waybright Part I
[Discussion/interview date: March 24th 2009] Discussion Topic - What is the Dream Church? The Center was pleased to welcome Trinity's former president back to campus. Dr. Waybright addressed the subject of ecclesiology through consideration of two passages in Ephesians. His talks are entitled…
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How Do We Live with Heartache | Carolyn Gordon
Sermon Title - "I Hope You Dance": A Sermon on Lamentations 3 Dr. Carolyn Gordon muses about how we survive “the next day,” that is the day after the day we never wanted to live through, when we wake up after a broken relationship, jobless, or bereft. She narrates Jeremiah’s story. His call from...
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How Are Racial Relations in the U.S. | Emerson, Sanders, and Hong [Parts 1-3]
Discussion Title - Race in the US: The State of Race Relations [Parts 1-3] ---Henry Center archive audio--- (Dr. Peter Cha is currently Professor of Church, Culture and Society at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.) Peter Cha, Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology at Trinity Evangelical...
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What Is the Ministry of Reconciliation | A Panel with Cha, Netland, & Reynolds
Discussion Topic - Church and Reconciliation: State of the Issue Doctrine and doctrinal issues are not merely aloof ideas that flit about within the closed precincts of academic institutions, but the living reality of the people of God located within local neighborhoods, neighborhoods replete…
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How Does God Reconcile : And Calls Us--Yes, Us--to Follow | Gregory Waybright
Sermon Title - God and Sinners Reconciled: And Calls Us--Yes, Us--to Follow (Mark 8:34-38, 10:17-31) Greg Waybright continues his two-part series (part 1) on God and reconciliation in the gospel of Mark. He expounds Christ’s call to radical discipleship in Mark 8:34-38, and describes the path we...
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How Does God Reconcile : He Enters In | Gregory Waybright
Sermon Title - God and Sinners Reconciled: He Enters In (Mark 7:24-30) Dr. Greg Waybright turns to an unlikely passage as he begins his first of two (part II) messages on God and Reconcilation. Expounding Mark 7:24-30, the story of the Syrophoenecian woman, Waybright draws out the ways that Jesus...
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How Is Personhood Political | Anthony Bradley
Lecture Title: Lost in Policy? The Person Beyond Public and Social Utility Contemporary Christian debates about public policy tend to rely on simply reading one’s preferred political views into Scripture. Often lost in the conversation, are the very people themselves. Drawing on resources from…
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Why Should We Reconcile | Ralph West
Sermon Title - Looking Up and Looking Out: A Theology of Reconciliation There is something about the verticality of life. Whether telephone poles or sky scrapers. But we don’t simply look up; we also look out. There is also something horizontal. In our embodied existence, we see the two…
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How to Be Useful to God | Interviewing Alistair Begg
Post-Lecture Interview with the Speaker Lecture Title - Inadequacy: The Surprising Secret to Being Useful to God The NBA champions this year was a team made up of fewer stars and less glitz than their opponents. We might say that humility triumphed over hubris. There are lessons-a-plenty in this...
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Debating Social Justice & Mission | Albert Mohler & Jim Wallis
Debate Question - Is Social Justice an Essential Part of the Mission of the Church? North American Evangelicals have recently experienced a revival of interest in issues of social justice. The growing sentiment among many today is that Jesus preached "good news to the poor," and was indeed among...
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What Does Jesus Tell Us about Friendship | Jonathan Pennington
Lecture Title - A Kingdom of Friends: Matthew’s Vision for the “We” of Discipleship Matthew’s Gospel presents a profound and nuanced vision of what it means to flourish as humans through becoming disciples of King Jesus. Flourishing in the kingdom of heaven requires a proper relationship to God…
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Debating Justification & Liberation | Douglas Campbell & Douglas Moo
Debate Question: Is the Lutheran Approach to Pauline Justification "Justified"? Martin Luther and other reformers viewed Pauline justification as primarily, if not exclusively, a forensic matter between us and God. We are justified before God, through faith in Jesus Christ, according to his...
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How Do We Finish Well | Bryan Loritts
Sermon Title - Finishing Well (1 Cor. 9:24-27) Bryan Loritts comes from a long legacy of faithful men and women extending from his great, great grandfather Peter, an illiterate slave who loved the Word, to his father, Dr. Crawford Loritts. He celebrates this legacy in his sermon on 1 Corinthians...
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How Is the Gospel Multi-Ethnic | Bryan Loritts
Sermon Title - The Multi-Ethnic Church (Eph. 2:11-22) In a sermon on Ephesians 2:11-22, Brian Loritts makes a passionate appeal to Bible believing Christians to note the Gospel's vertical and horizontal dimensions. The Gospel addresses both reconciliation between God and sinners and…
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How Is the Mind Renewed | Interviewing Dallas Willard
Lecture Title - Transformed by the Renewing of the Mind: The Use of Scripture in "Spiritual Formation" The Apostle Paul tells us to "not be conformed to the world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind" (Rom. 12:2). But how are we to go about renewing our mind? We will explain the role…
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How Is the Mind Renewed | Dallas Willard
Lecture Title - Transformed by the Renewing of the Mind: The Use of Scripture in "Spiritual Formation" The Apostle Paul tells us to "not be conformed to the world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind" (Rom. 12:2). But how are we to go about renewing our mind? We will explain the role…
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Why Should We Forgive | Ralph West
Sermon Title - Gracing & Disgracing Grace: Forgiveness and Reconciliation Preaching on Jesus’ famous parable of forgiveness (Matthew 18), Rev. Ralph West warns us against Disgracing Grace, in a manner similar to the Unforgiving Servant. This doesn’t mean that forgiveness is easy. It wasn’t easy…
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How Does Christ Satisfy Us Fully | Henri Blocher
Sermon Title - The Final Christ In John 4:7-14 and 6:27-40, Jesus uses the universal symbols of bread and water to draw people to himself, awakening in them a sense of their deeper hunger and thirst. He is the greater Jacob and the greater Moses, offering people the living water and bread of life…
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How Is Salvation Possible | Henri Blocher
2015 Kantzer Lecture #6 - Possibility and Salvation In the final lecture Blocher concludes by accounting for the place of possibility in God’s response to the intrusion of evil, contending that the truth about evil can only be known through God’s response of salvation. Blocher maintains that in…
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Was Evil Always Possible | Henri Blocher
2015 Kantzer Lecture #5 - Was Evil "Possible" Before it Arose? The fifth lecture explores the question of whether evil was possible before it arose, either ontologically or logically, as related to God and to humanity. Accordingly to Blocher, evil is neither ontologically nor logically possible...
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What Does the Bible Say about Possibility | Henri Blocher
2015 Kantzer Lecture #4 - "Possibility" in Biblical Perspective Blocher’s fourth of six lectures is an attempt to discern through Scripture the contours of possibility. Blocher first analyzes possibility with respect to God. He argues that Scripture associates various notions of possibility with...
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What Is Possibility | Henri Blocher
015 Kantzer Lecture #3 - Thinkers on "Possibility" Whereas in the first of his Kantzer lectures, Blocher introduced the function of possibility in explanation of evil in the thought of many important theologians and philosophers, in this his third lecture, he considers various philosophers’…
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What Is Evil | Henri Blocher
2015 Kantzer Lecture #2 - Exploring the Quasi-Concept and the Area of Evil Continuing his analysis of the idea of evil, lecture two provides some “impressionistic” starting points to the idea of evil, before giving an analysis of Leibniz’s threefold articulation of evil as metaphysical, physical,...
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Why Is Evil Possible | Henri Blocher
2015 Kantzer Lecture #1 - Introduction: Evil Possible—A Misleading Facility At the outset of his 2015 Kantzer Lectures, Henri Blocher recognizes three central questions that arise from the fact of evil: Whence does evil come? What is evil? How long, O Lord? Blocher admits there is legitimacy of…
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When Can We Experience Intimacy with God | Nicholas Wolterstorff
2013 Kantzer Lecture #8 - The Understanding of God Implicit in the Eucharist In the final Kantzer lecture of the series, Nicholas Wolterstorff turns to conclude his exploration by unpacking the theological implications of the Eucharist for his project. Noting that this is not the place to...
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How Does God Respond | Nicholas Wolterstorff
2013 Kantzer Lecture #7 - God as One Who Speaks Having completed his exploration of God as one who listens, Wolterstorff now turns to the understanding of God implicit in the belief that God is one who speaks. He begins by pointing out that in a good many of our liturgical acts we are listening…
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When Does God Hear Favorably | Nicholas Wolterstorff
2013 Kantzer Lecture #6 - God as One Who Hears Favorably Wolterstorff begins his sixth lecture by unpacking the understanding of God implicit in the liturgical act of requesting that God would hear our addresses favorably. What view of God is implied by the participant’s refrain, “Hear our prayer...
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How Does God Listen to Us | Nicholas Wolterstorff
2013 Kantzer Lecture #5 - What Are We Saying When We Say that God Listens? Wolterstorff responds to questions raised by portraying God as the God who listens and speaks. After responding to potential objections that “listening” and “speaking” are anthropomorphisms not properly predicted upon God,...
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What Is Healthy Discipleship | Kelly Kapic
Lecture Title - Go Therefore and Make Humans: Discipleship in an Inhumane World We live in a frenetic age of unrealistic expectations, fostered by unrelenting voices both outside and inside of us. Through subtle and not so subtle forces we are constantly expected to do more and be more.…
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When Does God Listen to Us | Nicholas Wolterstorff
2013 Kantzer Lecture #4 - God as Listener Wolterstorff breaks new theological ground by considering the reality that God is a listener. Employing the concepts of speech-act theory and an analogy of social structure, he distills what making such a predicate of God entails. Often people are in...
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Why Do We Speak to God | Nicholas Wolterstorff
2013 Kantzer Lecture #3 - God as One Who Listens and Speaks In his third lecture, Wolterstorff considers the understanding of God implicit in some of the fundamental types of Christian liturgy. He submits that the address of God is the most common type of action that occurs in the enactment of...
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Why Is God Worthy of Worship | Nicholas Wolterstorff
2013 Kantzer Lecture #2 - God as Worthy of Worship In the second lecture, Wolterstorff explicates what he calls the implicit understanding of God within the Christian liturgy as a whole (or as it accords with the convergence of the five traditions he is considering), the third and highest level…
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How Should God Be Worshipped | Nicholas Wolterstorff
2013 Kantzer Lecture #1 - The God We Worship: A Liturgical Theology In this first Kantzer lecture, Nicholas Wolterstorff provides the overarching structure to his liturgical project. Using as his main interlocutors liturgical theologians Schmemann and von Allmen, and working at the convergence of...
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How to Be Useful to God | Alistair Begg
Lecture Title: Inadequacy: The Surprising Secret to Being Useful to God In this lecture, Alistair Begg considers God's pattern of using unlikely and ordinary characters and addresses the possibility that what we regard as a hindrance may be the key to usefulness in God's service. Alistair Begg...
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How Is God Free | Bruce McCormack
2011 Kantzer Lecture #7 - The Being of God as Gift and Grace: On Freedom and Necessity, Aseity and the Divine Attributes In his seventh and final lecture, Professor McCormack concludes with a treatment of God’s being and attributes. Of particular interest is his notion of Freedom. Freedom, he...
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How Does the Trinity Act in the World | Bruce McCormack
2011 Kantzer Lecture #6 - The Processions Contain the Missions: Reconstructing the Doctrine of an Immanent Trinity In this sixth lecture, Professor McCormack develops his doctrine of the immanent trinity by grounding his conclusions in the teaching of the New Testament as expounded in the fourth...
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What Should We Think about Christ | Bruce McCormack
2011 Kantzer Lecture #5 - Which Christology? Refining the Economic Basis of the Christian Doctrine of God In this fifth Lecture, Professor McCormack begins the constructive work of his project. His goal is to develop a thoroughly post-metaphysical doctrine of God. For McCormack, this means that...
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What Does the New Testament Say about God | Bruce McCormack
2011 Kantzer Lecture #4 - The God Who Reveals Himself: The Mystery of the Trinity in the New Testament In the fourth lecture, Professor McCormack provides dense exegesis of the relevant biblical material regarding the problem of the trinity in the New Testament. This pertains in particular to the...
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