Derek Rishmawy

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Our guest is Derek Rishmawy. He’s a PhD student at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He’s also a blogger and a podcaster.

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Show Notes

1:55 – Who Derek Rishmawy is… 7:25 – Why he ended up studying theology at “TEDS” 10:15 – How and why he decided to pull out of ministry work to pursue further studies 16:30 – Why you might decide to NOT pursue a graduate degree 19:00 – How to minister to millennials 22:45 – Me, boiling his TGC talk down to a few sentences (and him agreeing with it) 24:45 – The four books he would put in front of every millennial 29:00 – How to balance things you feel like you “should” do vs. the things you “want” to do 35:00 – How he thinks about daily and weekly rhythms 41:15 – The worst pronunciation of his last name he’s ever heard (and the worst one he’s done to someone else’s last name) 44:45 – The best burger in Chicago… 47:45 – If he could put a billboard anywhere in the world, where would he put it, and what would it say?

Links

• The Drama of Doctrine: A Canonical Linguistic Approach to Christian Doctrine
• Remythologizing Theology: Divine Action, Passion, and Authorship (Cambridge Studies in Christian Doctrine)
• Biblical Authority after Babel: Retrieving the Solas in the Spirit of Mere Protestant Christianity
• The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less, Revised Edition
• Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God’s Will
• Gospel Coalition Breakout
• The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
• Making Sense of God: An Invitation to the Skeptical
• The Skeletons in God’s Closet: The Mercy of Hell, the Surprise of Judgment, the Hope of Holy War
• The Pursuing God: A Reckless, Irrational, Obsessed Love That’s Dying to Bring Us Home
• Knowing God
• Ecclesiastes
• The Sickness unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition of Edification & Awakening by Anti-Climacus (Penguin Classics)
• Derek’s Website
• Derek’s Podcast
• Key and Peele – Substitute Teacher
• Au Cheval