“Antiochene exegesis rejected allegory, but it did not reject typology because it recognized that something very different is at work in typology. The Antiochene School was well aware that the New Testament itself used typology and therefore had no problem using it when it clearly was already in the text” (Hughes Oliphant Old, The Reaching …
A Life of Insecurity
“Women who demand independence of this kind of familial masculinity are like a plant demanding independence from the soil. The effect is to uproot them, bringing in a life of insecurity, propped up here and there by reassurances from a thoughtful therapist and the regulations of some federal agency” (Beyond Stateliest Marble, p. 114).
Priests With Spears
It has been 35 years now, and when Nancy and I were first together we decided that if we had anything to work through, we would do it together. We determined that we would not ever share any problem with outsiders unless it was by mutual consent, and it was for the purpose of getting …
Now the Month After Next
I have mentioned this web site for the Logos benefit concert before, and have promised periodic updates and introduction. Well, here is one. Tom Garfield, the superintendent of Logos, has brought his drumsticks out of retirement in order to jump into a few songs. Look under Special Guests. Jay Niemeyer, a Logos dad, is the …
State of the Church 2011
INTRODUCTION:One of the customs we have in this congregation is that of having a “state of the church” message around the first of the year. Sometimes the message focuses on the local state of the church, and sometimes on the state of the national church. And sometimes, like today, it focuses on both. THE TEXT:“Wherefore …
Edge of What?
God has called us to be holy and blameless before Him, and so we need to understand that call. As Christians we know that holiness and blamelessness are good things, but we cannot just accept that the words refer to good things. We have to know how God defines these things—and this is what Scripture …
Nothing But Grace and Gratitude
Here is bread and wine. Here is the grace of God. Come as supplicants; come as those who know that they need nothing but the sheer, unadulterated grace of God. Grace, if it to remain grace, must be received as gift. We can be worthy of a gift after the fact, but if we try …
Sin is Not Exceptional
Father, we confess that holiness or separation from the mundane is an inescapable concept, and if we don’t accept the gift of Your holiness, we will attempt to manufacture our own. We confess that we have attempted to create our own forms of exceptionalism, and we confess how wrongheaded that is.
Jeremiah and Kelsey
The Scriptures speak a great deal about glory, but as earth-bound novices, we tend to shy away from the subject. We think that the whole thing is beyond our grasp. And yet, the Bible is very clear that glory is part of our experience here in this world, and so we need to learn how …
Second Temple Piracy
N.T. Wright takes the famous “den of robbers” statement made by Jesus in the cleansing of the Temple as referring to revolutionaries, which the word lestes can mean. But Peter Leithart, citing Nicholas Perrin, takes it in the more straightforward sense of “thieves.” Here are a couple reasons why Leithart’s reading is much to be …