There is great advantage in tracking the shape of God’s work in history through the Old Testament. This is because God is consistent. Everything He does has the same shape, even though He does it in new and surprising (and sometimes devastating) ways.
One of the big handles in Scripture is the five-fold Covenant pattern, described by Ray Sutton in his book, “That You May Prosper: Dominion by Covenant.” Continue reading
When it comes to the miraculous spiritual gifts, I’m a bit of a hybrid.
“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.” — Richard Dawkins
Well, there’s one statement I don’t understand, unless Mr Dawkins means every religion except Christianity. Modern science was born of a distinctly Christian worldview. This next quote is one I understand to a point, but only because Mr Dawkins has a broken worldview.
Here’s the contents of The Covenant Key. A bit gratuitous, but it may help some to see the logic in the arrangement before reading it.
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The draft of The Covenant Key is complete, and has been sent to faithful hounds to pick apart (including Travis, who could never pass for Granny with those admirable gnashers). If all goes according to plan, it should be edited, printed and available mid-June.
From the book:
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Moderns are very familiar with process and with story. Everyone’s an expert and everyone’s a film critic. Yet modern Christians are ignorant of the processes in the Bible and how they relate to life. God’s Book is not just a stream of disjoined facts. Every part of it is a carefully ordered process designed to move things forward and bring about change. The story is a process. The process is a story.
In his ground-breaking and fascinating The Handwriting on the Wall, [1] James Jordan writes:
God intends to teach Nebuchadnezzar what true wisdom is, by giving him advisors who have genuine knowledge of good and evil, men who call evil “evil” and good “good” (Isaiah 5:20–21). In Daniel 2-5, we shall repeatedly see the false wisdom of the Chaldeans fail, and the true wisdom of God’s people triumph.
Have been chewing on Covenant renewal in Communion a lot. I’m starting to think the emphasis on the Table is not so much nourishment as resurrection and commission under oath.
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