In his post You Will Never Guess Who Is Really Responsible For The Softening of Males In The Church, Mark Sayers shifts the blame for the current “sea of passivity” in modern males from feminism to men like John Newton.
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Charles Stone introduces his book, ‘Five Ministry Killers and How to Kill Them‘ with an account of how a Church fired their Pastor. As I started the first paragraph, I thought it was a fictional parable used to kick off the main topic of the book. Wrong!
Author Marilynne Robinson writes about the Bible in the New York Times:
The Bible is the model for and subject of more art and thought than those of us who live within its influence, consciously or unconsciously, will ever know.
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“If you’re really mad with somebody you don’t want to be in the same room with them, let alone sit down and eat with them. It’s just the way we’re made. You eat with people you’re comfortable with. When God is going to eat with us it means He’s comfortable with us.”
– James B. Jordan on Moses and Jethro, Studies in Exodus (lectures). Available from www.wordmp3.com
The word apocalypse does not denote the end of the world. It is literally a revelation, a revealing.
In his Pauline Theology paper, It’s the end of the flesh as we know it! A comparison of circumcision & apocalypse (2010), Steven Opp provides support for the identification of the book of Revelation as a Covenant lawsuit. Christ was circumcised, then Christ Himself was cut off. Israel was circumcised in Christ, then, in AD70, after decades of apostolic gospel witness, unbelieving Old Covenant Israel and its Temple worship, overseen by “the mutilation,” were cut off. On the final Day of Coverings, the flesh was exposed.
Here’s a new amazon review of The Covenant Key by “the man with the cigar,” David Deutsch.
A rejection of Biblical history and its chronology of the planet might be the cause for one of science’s greatest mistakes.
The systematic typology of the Bible Matrix allows us to follow the structures of the Torah thoughout the rest of the Bible. Here’s something that links the Restoration era with the book of Deuteronomy.
“For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea for you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were on the other side of the Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed.” (Joshua 2:10)
The gods of the ancients had their places in the heavens. The gods of the ancients also had their domains on earth. Besides the holy places within each boundary, each deity had its locale, its household. The gods were territorial. The gods didn’t move.
When people moved, they took care to not to offend the gods of the land into which they moved. They often adopted the local gods for worship. Do we see this reflected in Israel’s holy places, or is there something else going on?
