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 »
Three years ago I began a writing project. In January I began working on it full-time. This morning I printed out the last page. I’ve described the nature of the project before, but I ‘ll summarize briefly here. The official name of the courses is “Analysis of Old/New Testament Books,” but the popular name is… Read More »
I’m nearing the end (of the New Testament) and I’m seeing something curious. Actually it didn’t occur to me straight out, but more subtly, as I started categorizing everyone in my life as either one who walks in the truth or a false teacher. :-) It is very interesting that the last books of the… Read More »
What Douglas Moo writes concerning Peter’s declaration that Jesus is God (2 Pet 1:1) seems to be the standard view: While it would be a gross anachronism to attribute to the apostle at this point a fully worked-out Trinitarian understanding of God, what he says here, along with other similar verses in the New Testament,… Read More »
According to the Bible, saving faith is: A. Having believed in Jesus at some point in your life B. Always knowing that God is real and Jesus is his Son and that he died on the cross for you C. Primarily demonstrated by doing good works and being a good person D. Though you have… Read More »
If word frequency is any indicator of content, then according to my argument of Hebrews, this is what the book is about:
I’m preaching at our church tomorrow. My name is even temporarily posted on the internet. This will bring to a screeching halt seven years of freedom from wearing a colorful rope around my neck. It hasn’t always been so. There was a time in my life when I wore one six days a week.
Who do you think wrote the book of James? The book identifies the author only as “James, the servant of Jesus Christ.” The prevailing opinion, if one discounts a pseudonymous author, is that the epistle was written by the brother of Jesus. I don’t find the evidence compelling. There are four James mentioned in the… Read More »