In an earlier blog I mused a bit over the significance of a melancholy anniversary. I didn’t start out to be quite so contemplative. Indeed, I intended only to draw attention to a brief excerpt that I have posted elsewhere that concerns the reality and the dimensions of the Theocracy in the Old Testament. To [...]
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When God Was King
Posted in Bookman, King Yahweh, Theocracy on March 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Lot is Cast…The Disposing is of the Lord
Posted in Ahaseurus, Bookman, Esther, Mordecai, Old Testament, Purim on March 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here is a chance to honor your spiritual heritage, to ponder that portion of written revelation which was written for your admonition upon whom the end of the ages has come, and to focus on one of the most important and instructive – if woefully under-appreciated – doctrines of Scripture. Celebrate Purim! Perhaps quietly – [...]
The Old Testament “Theocratic Anointing” of the Holy Spirit
Posted in Bookman, David, Moses, Prophet, Saul, Temple, Theocratic Anointing on February 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There is much discussion – and much confusion – abroad today with regard to the ministry of the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament. I would not attempt a facile resolution to the many difficult aspects of that issue. But I would suggest that there is one element of the question which is much overlooked, [...]
A Melancholy Anniversary
Posted in Bookman, Glory Cloud, Israel, King Yahweh, Temple, Theocracy on February 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On or very close to September 18 of this year, there may very well be a moment of solemn silence in the Courts of Heaven. For that day will mark the 2600th anniversary of one of the most melancholy events in the history of God’s dealings with mankind.
The date of the historical incident is [...]
A Moment on the Edge
Posted in Bookman, Opening the New Testament and Finding the Old, Prophetic Perfect on January 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »
In an earlier blog, I suggested that passages traditionally understood by distinguishing between “positional” and “conditional” reality would be better perceived as NT uses of the OT rhetorical device known as the “prophetic perfect.” Having briefly made that case, I would like to take it one more tentative step. Let me first of all say [...]
Opening the New Testament and Finding the Old III
Posted in Bookman, New Testament, Old Testament, Opening the New Testament and Finding the Old, Prophetic Perfect on January 20, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Being an attempt to make full proof of the following proposition:
The writers of the New Testament wrote in Greek, but they thought in Hebrew.
In my mind, one of the most compelling evidences of that remarkable intellectual habit of mind is that Hebrew grammatical nuances – forms which are foreign to the Greek language – are [...]
Here! Here! For the Backwaters
Posted in Bookman, Crossroads, Update on January 16, 2009 | 7 Comments »
There is in the 21st century evangelical world a staggering asymmetry between what is being done and what is being talked about. The great preponderance of attention is given to the few celebrated ministries (perhaps, God forbid, “celebrity ministries”) which live in the limelight, but the great preponderance of God’s work is done by the [...]
MINISTRY REPORT: CROSSROADS BIBLE COLLEGE
Posted in Bookman, Crossroads, Update on January 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
When? January 5 – 8, 2009
Where? Crossroads Bible College, Indianapolis, IN
What? Teaching Module: Biblical Theology of Old Testament Temple Worship
Crossroads Bible College is a remarkably strategic ministry, carefully and sacrificially training men and women for ministry, largely in urban settings. I have long admired Crossroads from afar, and had gotten to know some of the [...]
I Wonder if We Wonder
Posted in Bookman, Christmas, Jesus' Deity, Jesus' Humanity, Nativity on December 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The reality of the incarnation is so central to our faith that for two millennia every expression of Christianity that could make any claim to orthodoxy has busied itself articulating and defending and honoring that sublime verity. Nor could there be a more noble or God-honoring busy-ness to which we might give ourselves! But might [...]
Some Incendiary Thoughts
Posted in Bigamy, Bookman, Old Testament, Polygamy on August 27, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I am working through 1 Samuel for a Bible Study Series, and of course early on in the narrative I encountered the issue of polygamy. (Elkanah: “I’ve got two wives. Isn’t that bigamy!” It’s a joke, a pun of sorts!) I needed a resource to which I could direct the teachers to help them prepare [...]
