Scripture is like the world: “undecipherable in its fullness and in the multiplicity of its meanings.” [It is] a deep forest, with innumerable branches, “an infinite forest of meanings”: the more involved one gets in it, the more one discovers that it is impossible to explore it right to its end. It is a table [...]
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“Endless voyaging ‘with all sails set’”
Posted in Biblical Studies, Biblical theology on November 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Presentable Children and Whitewashed Tombs
Posted in Biblical Studies, contemporary culture, Family on September 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As a Pastor I have at times felt and heard the expectation from others, why aren’t your children more well-behaved, as if a Pastor’s kids should be perfect, all the time. Now people don’t say it in so many words, but there is that pressure to have good, presentable children, as if the standard is [...]
How do we read Old Testament stories in light of the grand story?
Posted in Biblical Studies, Biblical theology on September 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A helpful post and good introduction to a class I will be beginning on Biblical Theology this Sunday. HT: Ray Ortlund
What does Scripture mean by a “rod”?
Posted in Biblical Studies, Family, tagged children, discipline on September 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Dr. William Barrick, Professor of Old Testament at The Master’s Seminary, helps to interpret passages like Proverbs 23:13, which encourages us to discipline our children with a “rod”, in a letter he wrote. to limit it to only a stick or a rod, would be too legalistic… It seems obvious that 2 Samuel 7:14 cannot [...]
Why God is ultimate
Posted in Biblical Studies, Biblical theology on August 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Living faith in God entails sharing God’s priorities. The biblical authors had a living faith in God. Therefore the biblical authors shared God’s priorities. God himself is top priority. Therefore the biblical authors had God as their top priority. (James M. Hamilton, Jr., God’s Glory in Salvation through Judgment: A Biblical Theology, p. 557)
The Big Picture of the Bible, for Kids
Posted in Biblical Studies, Biblical theology, Family on August 8, 2011 | 3 Comments »
What’s your favorite story? I asked that question of some children yesterday and received a number of different responses. They also told me that they often read their favorite stories over and over again. Many of us do that simply because we enjoy our favorite stories. After having my son read a paragraph from a [...]
God employs a parent
Posted in Biblical Studies, Family on June 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As I was preparing for our Sunday School class (Getting to the Heart of Parenting) this past week, I came upon this great quote from John Calvin on Galatians 4:19. “my little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you!” Paul is of course speaking here [...]
I Commend Joy!
Posted in Biblical Studies, Biblical theology, tagged Ecclesiastes on April 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
If you were speaking with a negative, pessimistic person who commented frequently on the absurdity of life, would you be surprised when that person said, I commend joy? I know I would! That’s exactly how this statement should affect us as we read it from the Preacher’s lips in the book of Ecclesiastes. Come to [...]
Man cannot find it out
Posted in Biblical Studies, Biblical theology, tagged Ecclesiastes on April 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
then I saw all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. However much man may toil in seeking, he will not find it out. Even though a wise man claims to know, he cannot find it out. Eccl. 8:17 No one likes the unknown. We [...]
Wisdom, Injustice, and the Wicked
Posted in Biblical Studies, Biblical theology, tagged Ecclesiastes on April 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Francis Bacon warns us not to “draw down or submit the mysteries of God to our reason.” Ecclesiastes 8:10-17 is just one of those situations in which we might be tempted to try to figure God out. The situation is the burial of the wicked. These wicked people used to go in and out of [...]
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