Our time in the Dallas area was all about people. We enjoyed three days of meeting up with old friends. Everyone agreed this was a major highlight of our trip. The centerpiece of our visit was our time at Trinity Bible Church, our home congregation for our six years in Dallas. Kelli and I loved… Read More »
Be careful what you say. Someone once told me they liked my vacation posts on this blog. I remember that. Thus you get what follows. When we lived in Texas, we did four major three-week summer vacations (we missed the first summer because Kelli broke her ankle). The first was to the west, but the… Read More »
In thinking about for my work this week, it strikes me that I have a lot of variety. Genesis – I’m lecturing on chapters 9–13 in my Genesis course. Numbers – this week in Sunday School I ‘ll be teaching chapter 17. Job and Ecclesiastes – I ‘ll be teaching these two books in OT… Read More »
Yesterday I taught Numbers 14 in which the Israelites rebel against the Lord and lose the kingdom. I want to go beyond Moses’s day now and identify an important parallel that may provide some clarity in thinking about Jesus’s ministry. To refresh on Numbers 14, the Israelites listened to their leadership (ten spies) in refusing… Read More »
I haven’t done this in a few years, but it’s a little less intimidating to write up a weekend trip than a weeks-long summer vacation. Friends in our Sunday School class invited us to stay at their place near Yosemite last weekend, and we were able to make it an extended three-day trip because Monday… Read More »
One thing that I’m not doing is blogging here. I wish I were. I have some interesting ideas from time to time that I would love to get down in writing. But I have a few minutes on a Friday evening and I thought I might provide a snapshot of what’s going on that might… Read More »
Lately I’ve been reading through the articles at the back of the new NIV Zondervan Study Bible. I like “big picture” articles, and I expect a lot from contributors with names like D. A. Carson, Douglas Moo, T. D. Alexander, and Moisés Silva. Since some of these writers were also the editors of the Bible,… Read More »
In the debate on Thursday, Marco Rubio expressed concern with Ted Cruz’s proposal for a VAT (value-added tax). The creation of a new tax could ultimately lead to increased taxation, as the old taxes could remain or the new tax rate could be increased. Rubio’s concern is valid, as history shows that governments tend to… Read More »
When Isaiah saw the Holy God of Israel, he cried out, “Woe is me! I am ruined.” The word translated “ruined” is translated elsewhere in Isaiah as “destroyed” (Isa 15:1). It has this same meaning four times in Hosea. Zephaniah speaks of all the merchants who will be “wiped out” (Zeph 1:11). The psalmist speaks… Read More »
Here is the third and final part of my attempt to summarize the book. The whole is available in a pdf file here. Kings: God made man to rule over the earth. God’s intention was to fill the earth with his image-bearers so that his glory would be on display to all of creation. His… Read More »