Communicating God: Doctrine of Scripture 3
I got distracted in the last post… It’s hard not too with so many different voices demanding to be heard. The image of the mechanically...
Scripture
10 postsHow to apply the Old Testament: New Testament Contexts
For any Old Testament passage a crucial interpretive context is that surrounding the advent of Jesus. This has two dimensions, it involves understanding both how the people who...
How to apply the Old Testament: Canonical Contexts
The first application of any Old Testament passage is the one that the original author/speaker intended for the original readers/listeners. Each passage of the Old Testament...
Communicating God: Doctrine of Scripture 2
Ok, welcome back to the Book of Hebrews. We’re mid-way through an exploration of the question, ‘who speaks in Scripture’ focussing on the various,...
How to apply the Old Testament
Biblical Theology is all the rage in U.S. Reformed evangelical circles at the moment. This seems odd to Australians because biblical theology feels slightly passé. We’...
Communicating God: Doctrine of Scripture 1
Who speaks in Scripture? I was teaching on the doctrine of Scripture recently and was struck again by the fluidity with which the Bible itself addresses this question....
The Holiness of Scripture
Read this beautiful quote from B. B. Warfield, a theologian who worked in Princeton at the turn of the 19th – 20th Century. A truly great mind, and...
City Light
‘If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, blessed shalt thou be in the city’ (Deuteronomy 28:2,3). ‘The city...
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