Citizens of the Better Kingdom
This from a piece I wrote for Tabletalk magazine about Daniel 5: One of the most memorable events from the book of Daniel—a
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Hermeneutics
Identity, Then and Now
Dr. Carl Trueman has developed a reputation as a church historian, and staunch defender of confessional Christianity, an ordinary working churchman, and a
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His Word Endures
Photo by Allen Taylor on Unsplash. I had the privilege to preach on the topic of the word of God at Christ Central
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Speaking Others’ Words After Them
I am just wrapping up grading papers from the spring semester, which brings to mind the quarterly question of proper citation of other peoples
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How to Teach Deuteronomy
Nancy Guthrie does a service for the church with her podcast series entitled “Help Me Teach The Bible.” I got a chance to sit
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Colbert on Faith: Logic Has Nothing to Do with It
Stephen Colbert is talking about his faith again, this time with Father Thomas Rosica, the Vatican’s English language spokesman for the Holy See and
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Story’s Dominance of Life
Jonathan Gottschall’s 2012 book The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make us Human (Mariner Books) begins with the line from Elie Wiesel’s The Gates of the
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How Jeremiah Leans on Deuteronomy
I have a a post up over at the Reformation 21 site discussing the influence of the book of Deuteronomy on the prophet
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Saying It Anew: Preaching, Teaching, and Defamiliarization
(Above: a defamiliarized street sign in Montmartre) I have always been interested in how God’s Word is communicated in the Scriptures by the
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Calvin the Exegete
In Richard Muller’s helpful article entitled “Calvin’s Exegesis of Old Testament Prophecies” he summarizes the great Reformer’s approach and in doing so touches
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