Two Minute Tuesday: The Book Every Christian Needs To Read About The Trinity

In the age of TLDR and doom scrolling, Two Minute Tuesdays are short posts, random thoughts, and wonderings—something between a Substack note and an essay—meant to be read in roughly two minutes.

In this inaugural two minute Tuesday, I want to point out that if you haven’t read Delighting in the Trinity by Michael Reeves you are missing out. This is an extremely helpful and beautifully written book, and in keeping with the theme of brevity, it’s only 133 pages.

I feel like the Trinity is something the church hasn’t done a great job of teaching. Michael Reeves does a fantastic job making difficult doctrine easy to understand. He starts the book by explaining:

“God is love”: those three words could hardly be more bouncy. They seem lively, lovely and as warming as a crackling fire. But “God is Trinity”? No, hardly the same effect: that just sounds cold and stodgy. All quite understandable, but the aim of this book is to stop the madness. Yes, the Trinity can be presented as a fusty and irrelevant dogma, but the truth is that God is love because God is a Trinity

Doesn’t that make you want to keep reading? I couldn’t put the book down. Reeves goes on in the introduction to talk about how the Trinity is seen as an awkward problem to solve— it’s like an egg, no it’s like the three states of water, no it’s like a shamrock leaf. It’s weird and mysterious. It doesn’t seem practical, so we don’t talk about it. However, Reeves writes that the Trinity is not a problem. It’s something we should delight in.

He writes:

In looking at the Trinity we are not walking off the map into dangerous and uncharted areas of pointless speculation. Far, far from it. Pressing into the Trinity we are doing what in Psalm 27 David said he could do all the days of his life: we are gazing upon the beauty of the Lord. And as we do so, I hope you will begin to feel as David did, and that you could do the same.

Indeed. One of the best things about Delighting in the Trinity is it’s not just intellectual theological knowledge and doctrine. It’s practical for the Christian life. Reeves brings everything back to how it applies to our lives. Do yourself a favor and check it out. I don’t think you’ll be disappointed.