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How To Read The Bible: Reading With the Lights On
Vol. 22, No. 6 • Nov/Dec 2013
When you look at a young child’and especially your children or grandchildren’don’t you just ache with the longing for them to have what’s best and to be protected from all that might harm them? So, of course, you long for your children to understand the gospel and to respond to it in faith. While your […]
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Blows that Break Rock
When you look at a young child’and especially your children or grandchildren’don’t you just ache with the longing for them to have what’s best and to be protected from all that might harm them? So, of course, you long for your children to understand the gospel and to respond to it in faith. While your […]
Jesus: The Second and Greater Adam
In countless ways, our lives are interwoven with the lives of others. Other people have shaped my personal history, impacted my daily work and well-being, and held sway over my future prospects. The ingenuity of Thomas Edison or Steve Jobs, the poet or musician who summons sublime stirrings in the heart, the broken car window […]
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The angel’s declaration “For unto you a child is born this day in the city of David, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord” did not take the shepherds keeping watch over their flocks by night completely unaware (Luke 2:11). We do know they were scared stiff, on one level. But if the shepherds were […]
“Kingdom Come: The Amillennial Alternative” By Sam Storms
There are a number of books currently in print that make the case for an amillennial understanding of biblical eschatology. Sam Storms’s Kingdom Come is an important addition to a list that includesO. T. Allis’s Prophecy & the Church (P&R, 1945); Anthony Hoekema’s The Bible & the Future (Eerdmans, 1979); Cornel Venema’s The Promise of […]
“How the West Really Lost God: A New Theory of Secularization” By Mary Eberstadt
The conventional narrative of how the West lost God goes something like this: As people became more educated, as science became more revered, and as people became more materially prosperous, the need for a transcendent being began to wane. Nietzsche was able to declare, “God is dead,” because he thought the human race was finally […]
“Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem” By Kevin DeYoung
Like the author Kevin DeYoung, I find that I take a sort of perverse pride in being “crazy busy,” so I suppose a book like this is especially appropriate for people like me who need to be shaken out of such an unhealthy way of thinking. As I read through the book, however, two friends […]
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What Did Jesus Write in the Ground? The Controversy and Mystery in John 8
“The Pharisees were guilty of the same kind of sin they wanted to see this woman executed for. And that’s why they walk away from the scene with their tails between their legs. The story ends with Jesus showing mercy to the woman and calling her to repentance, highlighting the fact that contrite sinners make […]
How God’s Promise to Abram Is Fulfilled in Christ
There is more to the Abrahamic covenant than just this family and just that land. As will become clear from the rest of Genesis and from the New Testament, Abram knew that the earthly land of Canaan was just a picture of heaven itself (Heb 11:10). Likewise, he came to understand that the key to becoming a vast nation was a single son. From the one, special boy of Abram, the blessings would flow to the nations, who is Jesus Christ (Gal 3:7–9). By faith in Christ, we become the heirs of these ancient promises.
Our Victory Is Between the Flags of Sound Doctrine
Following sound doctrine requires our eyes to remain fixed on Jesus. It also requires that our faith rests in him. Faith opens the door to God’s plan and allows us to accomplish his will for our lives. It does so chiefly because it fosters a heart that yields to the counsel and leading of God. In this way, we remain on the road of truth.
Four Tips for Reading the Bible’s Prophetical Books
The Prophets are not just abstract apocalyptic literature, included in the canon of Scripture because of their audience or subject matter. No, they—like the rest of Scripture—are the divinely inspired word of God. They are included in the unfolding of God’s redemptive plan and written within the covenant context of God and his people for a theological purpose, reflecting a specific historical and geographical context.
