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***IMPORTANT UPDATE: The 2026 CCS-FIRST THINGS Austin Lecture has been rescheduled! The lecture will now take place on December 10th, 7:00–8:30 p.m.*** We are pleased to announce the annual Center for Christian Studies – First Things Lecture, to be held in Austin, Texas, on Thursday, December 10, at 7:00 p.m. This year’s speaker will be the theologian and historian, Carl Trueman. We at the Center for Christian Studies are happy to cooperate in this lecture every year wit

Keith D. Stanglin Read posts one, two, and four of this series. I have not lived in a house since the day I brought up the people of Israel from Egypt to this day, but I have been moving about in a tent for my dwelling. In all places where I have moved with all the people of Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel, saying, “Why have you not built me a house of cedar?” 2 Samuel 7:6-7 In the original post in th

Keith D. Stanglin David and Saul, Ernst Josephson, 1878 Read parts one, three, and four of this series. And the Lord said to Samuel, “Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them.” 1 Samuel 8:7 In my previous post, I claimed that there are at least three things or institutions in Scripture that God didn’t really seem to desire in the first place. Yet, despite that original will,