In part one, I primarily focused on the typology of Genesis 22 in the story of Abraham and Isaac on Mount Moriah. We saw how this event, while literal and historical, also had a symbolic significance as it foreshadowed the propitiation made by Jesus Christ. This article will focus more on the “obedience of faith”, …
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My favorite Old Testament story is found in Genesis 22. It is the well-known story of Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son Isaac on Mount Moriah, in obedience to YHWH’s command to him. This story has great significance in the narrative of Genesis, in the flow of redemptive history, and in the theology of both …
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This will serve as the next installment in the haphazard series so far titled “Our Blessed Hope”. The series concerns itself with eschatology: the study of the last things. And we have already covered the binding of Satan and the biblical theology of Eden which points to the telos or end goal of eschatology. In …
At the outset of His earthly ministry, Jesus Christ was tempted by Satan in the wilderness. This is a familiar story to many of us but there is greater significance that we can glean from this event in Christ’s life beyond what we learned in Sunday school. The Gospel of John does not mention Christ’s …
In 2010 the theologian John Stott published a book called The Radical Disciple. The subtitle was Some Neglected Aspects of Our Calling. This brief book laid out eight aspects of Christian discipleship that Stott perceived as being “neglected” by and large in the modern, particularly Western, church. The keystone Bible verse in Stott’s work was …
With this installment, we will close our examination of Leviticus 14. We pick up in v. 33: The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, “When you come into the land of Canaan, which I give you for a possession, and I put a case of leprous disease in a house in the land of your possession, then he who …
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Perhaps you’ve heard the discussion surrounding a recent opinion article in the New York Times, written by David Brooks, titled “The Dissenters Trying to Save Evangelicalism From Itself”. Even if you haven’t seen the article or listened in on the debate surrounding it, it’s been hard to miss the growing division in the American church …
Do you ever wish that God spoke and worked in our own time as He did in the Old Testament or in the days of the original Apostles? We have probably all, at one time or another, found ourselves wishing for this. We may be facing a difficult decision and we crave the straightforward clarity …
Submission is a dirty word in 2022. In reality, I think there’s something in our human hearts that is timelessly offended by the idea of submitting ourselves to someone or something outside of ourselves. Particularly in independence-loving America, the idea of submission goes completely against our natural tendency. But according to Scripture, our role in …
Today marks one year since the riot on Capitol Hill during the turbulent transition between Donald Trump’s presidency and that of Joe Biden. Last January I wrote about the road that led to the Capitol riot and the divergence that caught many of us by surprise. In a year, much has changed. Trump is no …
