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  • The Purifying Flame of Christ’s Passion

    The Lord, therefore, your scriptural imagination can tell you, wants to kiss your lips with a passion, to redden them with the redness of his passion for you. The “scarlet thread” of the beloved’s lips, stained by the blood of the Lord’s passion and inflamed by the heat of his kisses, belongs to the Lord’s…

  • The 7 Backstories of The Hebrew Bible

    Just recently, Eerdmans was gracious enough to send along Gregory Mobley’s The Return of The Chaos Monster – And Other Backstories of The Bible. I’ve had my eye on it for a while, and even just flipping through the introduction, I can already tell its going to be thought provoking (and probably deserving of a…

  • Stephen Wellum on How People Put Together The Bible

    Within evangelical theology, dispensational and covenant theology largely frame how people “put together” their Bible and, as such, function as dominant theological viewpoints. Each “system” serves as an interpretive grid for understanding the story line of Scripture and thus functions as “whole-bible theologies” (i.e. biblical theologies) which lead to systematic theological conclusions. In this way,…

  • Christ-Centered Biblical Theology

    I don’t remember when I first heard of Graeme Goldsworthy, but it was probably at some point during my time in Dallas. I’ve had my eye on his Gospel-Centered Hermeneutics, which I guess would make a good companion to this volume. Eventually, I’ll pull the trigger, but since his Christ-Centered Biblical Theology was released earlier this year,…

  • Hearing The Old Testament: Listening For God’s Address

    A while back, I was taking advantage of the fact that RTS not only has a good library, but a great bookstore as well. One day when I came in, I stumbled upon this new release by Eerdmans, Hearing The Old Testament: Listening For God’s Address. Knowing that I’d be teaching a year of Old…

  • Stephen Wellum on The Backdrop of Kingdom Through Covenant

    Dispensationalism and covenant theology (along with their varieties) largely frame how evangelicals put their Bibles together. Each view attempts to serve as an interpretive grid for how to understand the metanarrative of Scripture. In this way, both systems function as examples of biblical theologies, i.e., “whole-Bible theologies,” which then lead to various systematic theological conclusions. Yet it…

  • “In This Way”: An Extended Review of Kingdom Through Covenant

    Earlier this year, Crossway released a bombshell named Kingdom Through Covenant into the playing field of evangelical theological studies. That may be a slight exaggeration, but considering that the Gospel Coalition gathered Darrell Bock (a progressive dispensationalist), Michael Horton (the leading mainstream covenant theologian guru), and Douglas Moo (perhaps a via media between the two) in order to…

  • Learning How To Pray With Nehemiah

    As I mentioned a couple of weeks back, we’re going through Nehemiah at Crosspointe. Back in the day, I took a class on Nehemiah during my sophomore year of college. With my attention focused back on this book, I thought I’d go back and revisit my notes since I remembered it being a pretty good…

  • The Gospel According to Isaiah 53

    In March of 2009, toward the end of my second year of studies at Dallas Seminary, Chosen People Ministries held a conference just down the road at Irving Bible Church. I vaguely remember this going on. I was engaged and taking 2nd semester Hebrew alongside 4th semester Greek (and 2 other classes), so even though…

  • Nehemiah: A Church For The City, The Nations, The Generations

    This coming Sunday is the 3 year anniversary of the church we’re part of here in Florida. So we’re commemorating it with our yearly Vision Sunday. If you’re in the area, you ought to come check us out and see how God has been at work. And, if you’re not currently part of a church…