Linked Together: Recommended for Listening

Yes, one is actually a video, but it’s a video I only listened to.

Vocation
Wayne Grudem on A Theology of Work/Vocation. (I was especially interested in what Grudem says about running a business. A lot of what I’ve read/heard/watched on the doctrine of vocation seems more applicable to people who are employees. This presentation would be especially useful for a small business owner.

Apologetics
I just began listening to this series of lectures by Prof. James Anderson on Worldview Apologetics (Triablogue).

Theological Term of the Week

coram Deo
Literally, “before the face of God”; the Christian conviction that every person is responsible before God for all they think and do, because all of life is lived in the the presence of God, under his authority, and everything should be done to the honor and glory of God;1

• From scripture:

Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men … .  (Colossians 3:23 ESV)

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. (1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV)

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The Heidelberg Catechism

Question 7. From where, then, does this depravity of human nature come?

Answer: From the fall and disobedience of our first parents, Adam and Eve, in Paradise; (a) hence our nature became so corrupt that we are all conceived and born in sin. (b)

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