Writers often use comparative language to describe uncommon experience. Using common shared experience as reference, good writers will establish the common to accentuate the uncommon. I think this is what the author of 2 Samuel was doing when describing the relationship between David and Jonathan. To assume that homosexuality is in view when David says…
Virtual Reconstruction of Second Temple
What the temple would have looked like when the Son of God walked the earth: HT: Justin Taylor
The Story of the Bible in 3 Minutes
HT: Jim Hamilton
The Cursed Fig Tree
Mark 11:12 -20 reads: 12 The next day as they were leaving Bethany, Jesus was hungry. 13 Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit. When he reached it, he found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs. 14 Then he said to…
Oh Love That Will Not Let Me Go
Elisabeth Elliot writes in The Path of Loneliness of George Matheson and the poem he penned titled "O Love that Wilt Not Let Me Go" : "A hundred years ago a man's experience of desolation gave birth to a hymn with has been for me and for many the balm of heaven. George Matheson went…
Pastor, Elder, and Overseer: A Baptist View
Dr. Denny Burk has been teaching through 1 Timothy during our Sunday School hour at Kenwood Baptist Church. The following is a summary of one of his helpful explanations. Baptists have historically equated the terms "pastor," "elder," and "bishop"/"overseer," thus understanding all three terms to speak of the same office. Other denominations have taught that…
Did Napoleon Bonaparte Really Exist?
David Hume could be seen by some as the Father of theological liberalism, specifically with respect to the veracity of miracles in the eyewitness testimonies of the New Testament Gospels. In An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Hume argued that miracles are impossible, and no sane person would believe such (he says improbable, but he clearly…
Why Don’t Christians Care That They Sin?
I completely agree with R.C. Sproul in this video. The true Christian cannot help but hate the sin that has been revealed to him by our loving Father. Praise the Lord for progressive sanctification!!
Joseph and Jesus – A Typological Comparison
The similarities are stunning. Only a Master Narrator could have accomplished it. Joseph, clothed in his father's majesty (Gen. 37:3), was told by his father to go to his brothers to bring tidings to them from Jacob. Joseph responded "I will go (Gen. 37:13)." When his brothers saw him coming, they plotted against Joseph,…
A New(Old) Gospel?
In his video, Jason Silva puts to music and flashy images the great Idea of the Spirit of the Age. Mankind is at the brink of defeating the last enemy: death. This is what we are told all of our technological advances, be it bio-tech, nano-tech, or other -tech, are advancing towards. A utopia. The…
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