Although the term “covenant” (berith) is not used in Genesis to designate the original commitment that bound the newly created Adam to his creator, the essential features of later biblical covenants between God the covenant Lord and his people as his servant . . . Continue reading →
Exegetical Theology
Johnson: Seeing Christ In All Of Scripture Requires Good Exegesis
To understand how any Old Testament event (or office or officer or institution) preaches Christ and finds its fulfillment in him, we first must grasp its symbolic depth in its own place in redemptive history … The Passover lamb’s blood declared that . . . Continue reading →
Review: The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes By Nancy Pearcy
The content of Nancy Pearcy’s The Toxic War on Masculinity is as thought-provoking as the title of the book itself. The fact that I had to train myself to stop saying, “The War on Toxic Masculinity” proves Pearcy’s point—whether a person agrees . . . Continue reading →
Review: How the Church Fathers Read the Bible by Gerald Bray
If you were to survey your average Reformed churchgoer on the extent of their knowledge of church history, my guess is that their knowledge would extend as far back as the sixteenth century and the Protestant Reformation. They know the story of . . . Continue reading →
What the Bible is All About
R. Scott Clark, “What the Bible is All About” Modern Reformation 16.2 (March/April 2007) 20-24
Hermeneutics and the Creation Wars
Hermeneutics and the Creation Wars You have heard by now of the worship wars, i.e., the contest between the competing claims about how we ought to worship. There is another battle stirring in our churches, over the proper interpretation of Genesis 1. . . . Continue reading →
This Christian Life
[Published originally on the Westminster Seminary California website] Next to The White Horse Inn, one of my favorite radio programs is This American Life starring Ira Glass. I stumbled across this show several years ago, and for a while I did not . . . Continue reading →
Hermeneutics and the Creation Wars
You have heard by now of the worship wars, i.e., the contest between the competing claims about how we ought to worship. There is another battle stirring in our churches, over the proper interpretation of Genesis 1. One of the most frequently . . . Continue reading →
The Two Witnesses and Lampstands in Revelation 11
Bill asks, [C]ould you give me a quick answer to who the two witnesses are in Rev 11:3, and the identity of the two olive trees and two lampstands in verse 4? Dear Bill, I understand the Revelation to have been given . . . Continue reading →
Grace and Peace to Aliens and Strangers (1Peter 1:1-2)
GRACE AND PEACE TO ALIENS AND STRANGERS: 1 PETER 1:1-2 This sermon was originally published in Modern Reformation in the Ex Auditu section in the January/February 2000 issue and is republished here by permission. Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to God’s . . . Continue reading →