If I didn’t tell you what book of the New Testament the following quote was from, or who said it, who would you initially guess that this sounds the most like? “I am a fellow bondservant with you (σύνδουλός σού εἰμι) and your brothers who hold to the testimony of Jesus.” For me, it immediately Continue Reading…
As I was thinking over Psalm 23 today, I noticed two things which I never had before pertaining to its form, flow, and characteristics that I think are worth sharing. Before commenting, I will share the ESV’s translation here for reference: 1 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.2 He makes me lie down in green pastures.He leads Continue Reading…
Observations on how Proverbs 9 presents a foreshadowed picture —of sorts— of the gospel and also an anti-gospel at work in the earth (i.e. the work of God and the devil, respectively).
Martin Luther for many years early in his life was tormented in mind and soul, constantly sensing his sin before God and yet seeing only the heavy hand of a righteous God who must judge sin and execute justice.
A Poem by Joshua Nielsen.
I finally put my finger on something yesterday that has been bothering me for many years about how generational based labels (e.g. Silent Generation, Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, Gen Z) are often used and the attitudes attached to them. For some context, many years ago at my church in Alabama, Summit Crossing, I heard one Continue Reading…
Herman Ridderbos in his book When the Time Had Fully Come explains how the gospel is more than just that which is concerned with man’s stake in it through justification, but is in its fullness rooted in the historical and factual reality of the incarnate Christ who lived, died, rose again, ascended, and poured out Continue Reading…
In his comments on Deuteronomy 31, John Calvin writes something that explains how the reading/hearing of Scripture is properly necessary to worship of God in reverential fear and obedience. If we are not reading God’s word with regularity to remind ourselves of its revealed message, or memorizing and meditating upon it in recollection, should that Continue Reading…
Recently I discovered what I believe to be a notable feature of the description of Jesus’ trial before the Jewish leaders in the Gospel of Luke as I was reading through it in Greek. An attentive reader of a translation could also pick up on this, but reading it in Greek simply made it stand Continue Reading…
A friend of mine and missionary among the Maasai and other tribes in Kenya, Joshua Barron, recently shared the above image and asked what my personal answer would be.
Dr. Dan Ulrich delivers a message where repentance is brought to the fore to consider its relationship to the kingdom of God in a text from the Gospel of Matthew.
Problems with limiting God’s “means of grace”.
Theme by Shelby Reece.
