@WilliamsChessa

Worship and Aesthetics | Worship Prof @calbaptist | Director, Worship Arts Division | Ph.D. @sbts

 Riverside, CA
Joined April 2021
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Daniel M. Gurtner@DanielMGurtnerSep 28
Gateway Seminary is hiring. We are looking for a director of our PhD/ThM program. Deliberately small, laboring for rigour in a highly collegial context. Job link is below.
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“True beauty is not pretty. It is a tear in the façade of the everyday, a sudden revelation of the forces seething beneath the surface of things.” Thank you @JF_Martel for this moving meditation on the mystery of art in a reductionist world. A lovely Saturday read.
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Books I’m teaching at @calbaptist this semester. Absolutely no one is having more fun than me.
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@iamfujimura @bobby_jamieson @bkauflin @wdavidotaylor
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Oren Martin@orenrmartinJun 21
Many sermons from the Gospels where the focus is explicitly on the person of Jesus—never mind from the OT—are far from Christ-centered. How is this possible? The preacher has looked into the text principally to find himself and his congregation, not to find Christ. —Ferguson
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Couple of SBCs (Southern Baptist Cuties)
Jordan Williams
@JordanStorylineJun 10
Might be too late for this but I move that @WilliamsChessa gets sent home from #Sbc2026 early today. I love you Doc @WilliamsChessa 😘
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Bart Barber@bartbarberJun 8
Hot take: This is more worthy of your attention than most of the business items that will come to #sbc26 over the next two days.
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I’m grateful to Southeastern Theological Review for the opportunity to contribute an article on prayer in worship for this special issue on biblical worship. It’s an honor to be included alongside such an outstanding group of scholars. sebts.edu/southeastern-theol…

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Jordan Williams
@JordanStorylineJan 14
We're one month out from the Life & Godliness conference hosted at Gateway Seminary in Ontario, California. We'd love to have you join us! gs.edu/event/24260241-2026-0…
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"Love makes waiting sweet." The final meditation in my series on Advent. Link in the reply
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Michael Reeves
@mike_reeves23 Oct 2025
God’s goal for his people is not merely that they might be saved, but that they might be glorified, that the dust of the earth might one day be like the stars above.
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How should we leave a worship service? John Witvliet says the question isn’t “Did I like the music?” It’s “Did the music help me to pray?” It’s a shift from consumerism to communion.
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I refuse to surrender the em-dash to AI. Some things are worth defending.
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Tomorrow is a first! I've never had a GUEST POST on my newsletter before! The infatigable Dr. Chessa Wathen Williams turns her formidable attention and pen toward the consideration of beauty. Don't miss it!
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Credo
@CredoMagazine16 Jun 2025
If the Son submits from eternity anyway, the gospel is robbed of its punch. EFS (eternal functional subordination) steals away the scandal of it all. The Son so humbled himself that he learned obedience by what he suffered. - @MattMBarrett Watch Q/A from Credo Conference! credomag.com/2025/06/credo-c…
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Matthew Barrett@MattMBarrett9 Jun 2025
If you subordinate the Son, there are devastating consequences for our communion with God. Subordination compromises our salvation, says Michael Reeves.
Credo
@CredoMagazine9 Jun 2025
If the Son is infinitely subordinate to God…then the Son could never have known true, intimate communion with God. If the Son never knew true communion with God, how could he share communion with God with us? - @mike_reeves See Dr. Reeves’s full message from the Credo Conference now! Visit credomag.com/2025/06/the-nic…
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On the power of the imagination: “To me, imagination is key to morality. If you can’t imagine what it is to live in someone else’s head, then you’re more likely to hurt them.” –Michael Chabon (via Mary McCampbell, "Imagining Our Neighbors as Ourselves: How Art Shapes Empathy")
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If you want to see a new generation leading and loving the worship of God, begin training them. Now. My newest issue of the newsletter gives my BEST tips. Link in reply
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I got to hold a bound copy of my wife’s dissertation before she returns home from a trip. A reminder to me of God’s undeserved faithfulness to my family and the extraordinary industriousness of @WilliamsChessa. I’m so proud of you, love!
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NOTRE DAME IS GOING TO THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME!!! ☘️🏆 #GoIrish #CFBPlayoff
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