Dr. Paul J. Dean

• Deal with Self - Don't Fumble Your Surgery - Part 2 Earnest Byner will never forget the moment when he was about to score the tying touchdown in the 1987 AFC Championship Game and fumbled the ball instead. How can he? Paul Dean Jan 17, 2014 comments
• Don't Fumble Your Surgery - Part 1 - Deal with God Life is tough; there’s no doubt about it. I’ve seen people handle adversity well and I’ve seen others fall to pieces. Paul Dean Jan 13, 2014 comments
• Who's Libertarian: Secularists or Christians? It’s shocking what’s shocking these days. Purity; honesty; things like that. But other things too; I read stuff from Lew Rockwell because the New Covenant vision for civil society is largely libertarian. Now there’s a shocking statement. What gives? Paul Dean Jan 02, 2014 comments
• Stirring Our Affections for Jesus in Worship I’ve had more conversations about corporate worship than I care to remember; not because I don’t like talking about worship but because I’m out of step. Paul Dean Dec 27, 2013 comments
• Exemplary Church Out in the West Texas town of El Paso it wouldn’t be hard to find a cowboy church. We have them in my neck of the woods too; I met a guy the other day who started one down the road. Paul Dean Dec 18, 2013 comments
• The Kerfuffle Shuffle: Thoughts on Reformed Hip Hop I’ve tried not to weigh in on the recent kerfuffle over reformed hip-hop. It’s dangerous because no matter where you come down you’re going to be misunderstood and excoriated. Paul Dean Dec 12, 2013 comments
• Auburn Announcer Giving Credit Where Due Auburn knocked off top-ranked Alabama on the last play of the 2013 Iron Bowl in a most unlikely fashion – and it was kind of a repeat. Paul Dean Dec 05, 2013 comments
• Social Justice, the Circus, and Programming Away the Gospel I’ve called our church to keep visiting orphans and widows, adopting children, and ministering in the prisons. I’ve encouraged them to keep doing mercy ministry and working for social justice. Of course, I don’t want the church as the church to set up a program of feeding the hungry or clothing the naked. What? Paul Dean Nov 20, 2013 comments
• What about Churched Harry and Mary (and Discipleship)? Let’s draw a picture of Churched Harry and Mary. They go to church and love the worship; they often have jubilant or overwhelmingly emotional experiences there; Paul Dean Nov 18, 2013 comments
• I Get Goosebumps When I Think of Government Transformation In an ongoing and increasingly broad discussion concerning R2K vs. transformationalism, D.G. Hart posted an informative exchange involving J. Gresham Machen (arguably the leading theologian of the twentieth century) when he appeared before congress in 1926 to oppose the formation of the Federal Department of Education. Paul Dean Nov 14, 2013 comments
• Should Pastors Speak to Politics? We evangelicals have “been dazed and confused for so long it’s not true.” Well, it is true. Paul Dean Nov 04, 2013 comments
• Just Another Bum from the Neighborhood on Halloween It’s easy to start a fight between Christians; just talk about Halloween. Paul Dean Oct 31, 2013 comments