The Christian God is a fellowship of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, so God is a communion of love. From eternity, God is fundamentally love, relational, personal, communal, friendship, family. This page presents some basic but foundational understandings about the Trinity.

An Introduction to the Trinity vs. the Singularity: Models of God and Why They Matter

Text of a message. God is, and has always been, a loving community of persons. This means He is not a narcissist, but is other-centered, by nature. He is good because He is love, and everything He does is an expression of love. If you enjoyed this message, you might enjoy our Theology 101.

An Introduction to the Trinity vs. the Singularity: Models of God and Why They Matter

Text of a message. God is, and has always been, a loving community of persons. This means He is not a narcissist, but is other-centered, by nature. He is good because He is love, and everything He does is an expression of love. 

Teaching the Trinity, Part 1: The Theme of the Father-Son Relationship

A discussion guide to passages primarily from John's Gospel, on the Son revealing the Father, what that means for the character of God, and for our sharing in Jesus' relationship with the Father 

Correspondence with TF about the Goodness of God and the Will of God

This is a short exchange on Facebook, copy-pasted, showing the importance of defining God's nature before explaining God's will. 

The Trinity: Can Other Gods Be Personally Known?

God is immanent and locatable; God is transcendent and not contained by His appearance; and God is the link between them. This is what makes God personally knowable.

Big Questions About God: Comparing the Earliest Christian Theology with High Federal Calvinist Theology, and Why It Matters

Workbook style, with quotes and questions to help you compare, contrast, and discuss. The differences are enormous, and deeply relevant.

Debate on Facebook with RR, LF, ED about God’s Triune Nature and Compatibility with Restorative Justice Over Retributive Justice

From Dec 25, 2020, a sprawling discussion that started with a quote by Athanasius, explores God’s activities in both the Old Testament and in Christ, shows the importance of including “human nature” in the atonement and not just “human personhood,” and “human desires” in salvation and not just “human deeds.” This link will take you to the actual post on Facebook.

William Paul Young, The Shack. Windblown Media | Amazon page, Jun 2008. Young tells a touching parable about a man who encounters the Father, Son, and Spirit in the shack in which his daughter was kidnapped and murdered. A good introduction to God’s character and fundamental nature as defined by the love between the three Persons, and how that matters to issues of evil and suffering.

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity. HarperOne | Amazon page, 1952. Lewis gives a simple and helpful introduction to the Trinity. Lewis starts first with human moral sensibility searching for an anchor point in a framework of good and evil, then moves to Jesus and his work of atonement, then the Trinity. Only a fully good God can heal humanity of our evil, and therefore anchor a moral framework of good and evil.

The Bible Project, God. The Bible Project, Oct 18, 2018. Tim Mackie and Jon Collins do an outstanding job giving an introduction to how an understanding of God developed throughout the biblical time period, eventually offering a way to understand the Trinity in a way that the biblical human authors came to express.

Luke J. Wilson, The Trinity In The Early Church Writings. That Ancient Faith blog, Jan 4, 2022. Wilson compiled a very nice list of quotations from the early Christian writers, with some narration for context.