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Speak the Word
This last weekend, COMPASS school performed The Pilgrim’s Progress Musical Friday and Saturday evening. It was nothing short of phenomenal. The songs, choreography, set design, and most of all the acting by the students, glorified the Lord and communicated (in a truncated way) John Bunyan’s vision.…
In the introduction to the sermon on Sunday (Josh 18-19) I noted that there is application of the truths found in Joshua both for our lives now and in eternity. Biblical typology, the patterns of promise and fulfillment, especially as the Old Testament looks forward to Christ and the New Testament, is well suited to multiple applications.…
Recently, our Bible Study, as we continued working our way through the gospel of Luke, tackled the short statement in Luke 16:18, “Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.”…
Pictures can help us understand theology. And patterns can help us understand the pictures. It has been noted from our pulpit several times that there is an obviously triadic structure to creation (heavens-earth-seas under the earth) and to the temple (outer court-Holy place-Most Holy Place).…
James Bejon of Tyndale House in Cambridge, is a first-rate Hebrew scholar, and one of the best of today’s biblical theologians, in my opinion. He regularly brings fresh insight to the narrative connections and symbolism of the Old Testament in ways that make me wonder at the beauty and breadth of God’s word.…
“For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”…
Michael Haykin is one of my favorite Christian teachers and one of the most preeminent church historians in the world. Every once in while, however, we disagree with some of our favorite teachers, and a little while ago Haykin posted an article that had a useful observation, followed by what I believe are (somewhat) erroneous conclusions.…
Samuel Miller (1769-1850) was one of the three first Presbyterian professors at Princeton (alongside Archibald Alexander and Charles Hodge), which was originally founded as a seminary for training pastors. He was a man of letters and learning who wrote on a wide variety of subjects.…
In the sermon Sunday, we noted that Joshua was very old, and he needed to pass down the work of fighting to a younger generation. We don’t know Joshua’s precise age, but it seems like that he was at least as old as Caleb, who was at this time eighty-five (Josh 14:10).…
In the sermon this last week, I noted on Joshua 11:23, that “the land had rest from war,” only once great wars had been fought. It is, of course, important to note that the wars Joshua fought were of a very particular nature.…