Communicating Truth by Memory & Metaphor
The more frequently and deeply people converse with one another, the richer language becomes. Ironically, this richness and complexity of language also leads...
Committing Sacrilege in Pursuit of Worship
"And often the more ostensibly spiritual and refined these thing are, the more potent and treacherous their lure. The modern man who seeks to save and...
The Gift of Samuel
Hedonists everywhere should be concerned; after all, lust is what it has always been. Even when it is attended by pleasure, lust remains ungratified and...
Refitting an Analogy
In other words, justice and mercy may exist together, and we are not left to the precarious balance in which government bureaucrats must balance the two...
The Christian Can Hope Perfectly
"But the Christian’s hope is positive. His youth is like that of the heir who knows precisely what awaits him. No, more than this, the Christian has the...
Misbelieving a Parable
It is, therefore, worth noting that when these parables were first spoken by our Lord, even then they had a mixed effect upon their audiences; and yet, this...
No Continuing City, but Continual Praise
This short section serves as among the last admonitions of this epistle. It seeks the steadiness of faith, a faith which previous parts of the epistle so...
Considering Form & its Content
A man might say something like, “I thirst” (John 19:28) with little attending surprise, but when God speaks such words in the form of a man—one who was then...
A Different Reflex to a Single Pain
Whenever people are on the receiving end of a transgression, they frequently recognize sins that they otherwise suppress. What they hide as offenders they...
A Priesthood of Believers
For all of the anxiety that the Israelites—people and priests alike—must have felt in those moments before the high priest entered the holy place on that...
A Better Kind of Priest
In other words, for all the real anxiety that would have attended the high priest’s entrance into the far end of the tabernacle, it actually predicted a...
Paul Writes to the Romans
In this way, the resurrection became the confirmation of Jesus’ authority where the Romans presently ruled. It also proclaimed Jesus' authority to give life...
Come & Follow Whom?
Indeed every phrase in the short section possess a corresponding part, so that the purposed order of the entire conversation becomes very obvious. The Lord...
For this Cause
Matthew 19 reminds us that better questions often obtain better answers; but it more strikingly reminds us that the character of a question is first found in...
The Spirit Blows on Some but not Others
This article presents another view, that the easy and natural reading of John 3 does not beg the importation of the Reformed idea. Indeed, this section does...
A Prelude to Eternity
From the moment that Adam sinned in time, salvation would be mediated through covenants, all of which were inaugurated in time. Those same covenants are now...
A Mountain Sanctuary
The heavenly order, then, eventually arrives upon the earth. It is a treasure city, perched upon a high mountain. It is the fountain of a river. The LORD and...
Privilege & Purpose in the Service of God
The idea of temple does not begin with the tabernacle itself; the tabernacle was only one iteration of the heavenly order. Its various figures on the...
When History is Made Prophecy
If Israel’s deliverance from Egypt eventually forecasts Christ’s redemption of sinners, it should be of no surprise that Israel’s bondage is also associated...
When History Serves Prophecy
This is why it is never sufficient to speak of Egypt in the shallowest aspects of its typology, as if its contrast to Israel were merely ethical—or that...