Modern day Israel can only be in covenant with God through the true Israel Jesus. Psalm 2 teaches us that the nations of the world, including Israel, have only two options before them: make peace with Jesus or perish under His crushing rod.
All in Theology
Covenant Through New Eyes: Part 6 – The World of the Tabernacle
When you compare the symbolism of the world of the Tabernacle to the world of the Patriarchs it’s easy to see that things are gaining in complexity. This is the way it’s supposed to be. God wants his world to move from glory to glory. As we move into the world of the Temple next week we will see that the symbolism only gets richer.
Worship With Your Eyes Open
service. Christian worship should not be a place and a time where our eyes are mostly closed. NO! Rather, our eyes should be open to behold the grace of God. When the lights are on and the speakers are off one realizes that there are others along side you who are loving God and loving you. Christ's Body is truly acting as a body as they worship in unison togetherness rather than as an amalgam of dissonant members.
Why I Love Integrated Worship
A child who is immersed in Christian worship will necessarily be shaped by that immersion. Conversely, when the children are whisked away to the church annexes they are denied such formation. Further, the act removing the children from Christ’s Body (the church) seems to run straight against the words of our Lord when he
Covenant Through New Eyes: Part 5 – The World of the Patriarchs
n the world of the patriarchs god's focus zooms in from the world of Noah to the land of Canaan. It
Lent and Introspection
Do not simply add Lent to your personal devotional life. Do not simply make Lent another expression of the individualism that is so rampant in the current American church. Rather, see Lent as an opportunity to join with your brothers and sisters in Christ around the world in a season of self-examination and repentance.
Covenant Through New Eyes: Part 4 – The World of Noah
The inspired authors of scripture saw history unfolding in such a way that the world is constantly being destroyed and remade. With each new world comes new ways that man is to relate to God and act in the world. This is played out over and over again in the pages of the Old Testament.
Covenant Through New Eyes: Part 3 – Man's Work
As we move forward in this series to look at the scripture’s covenantal history we will find that it is a history of glory transformation. With each
Covenant Through New Eyes: Part 2 — The Covenant's Framework
Today's post will serve, in many ways, as a foundation for the following eight installments. Jordan lays out a "five-fold pattern" for the way God works in the world. We will come to see, in the coming weeks, that this pattern is repeated over and over as God tears down old worlds and raise up new ones throughout Biblical history.
Rising Above The Scriptures
To every man, therefore, his faith is a sufficient attestation of the eternal predestination of God, so that it would be a shocking sacrilege to carry the inquiry farther; for that man offers an aggravated insult to the Holy Spirit, who refuses to assent to his simple testimony. (Comm. John 6:40)
Covenant Through New Eyes: Part 1 – Introduction
Moreover, if you want to order yourself a copy of Through New Eyes and track along in the book as I go through this series that would be even better! I will say, it’s one of the best books I’ve ever read!
The Problem With "Pan"Millennialism
Christians proclaimed that the zenith of Israel's story was found in Christ while the Jews despised the implied accusation that they had so misread their own story as to crucify the Messiah. What we can learn from this is that the New Testament is not at odds with the Old Testament. In fact, it is the fulfillment of it. Therefore, without a comprehensive understanding of Israel's story laid out from Genesis to Malachi Christians are, in essence, depriving themselves of the foundation of their own faith.
Liturgy Series: Part 11 – The Benediction
As God's blessing flows to His people in the benediction it is not to stop in their hearts. God's blessings are to flow through his people out into the world; as far as the curse is found!
You Cannot Love Jesus Unless You Love the (Visible) Church
There is a very large branch of the evangelical church that (perhaps unknowingly) promotes a type of "relationship with Jesus" that is entirely ethereal (like Plato's forms). People go around asking questions like "Do you have to go to church to be a Christian?" while the apostle Paul is rolling over in his grave.
Why Are Reformed Christians So Afraid of Good Works?
We have allowed people to stop acting in accordance with God's word because they are tempted toward self-righteousness when they do so. This is foolishness and unbiblical. We need to repent of our laziness and do the hard work of
An Apologetic Confession
The Reformed cry of sola gratia has stood strong with respect to salvation (it is of God's grace alone that man is saved). The same, however, can not be said of their apologetics.
Liturgy Series: Part 10 — The Lord's Supper
In the Lord's
Women at Wells and Wedding Bells
Jesus came
Destroying the Law
If we seek to understand the true intent of the law, and have it do to us what it is primarily supposed to do (show us our sin), we must sit at the feet of Rabbi Yeshua who came, not to destroy (misinterpret) the Torah, but to fulfill (correctly interpret) it.
Baffled by the Torture Debate
Fear for life and loved ones has given strength to our fallen natures, ensnaring precious brothers and sisters in the lie that torture may be defined/redefined/justified by a Christian.