Never a Small Thing!
My dear brothers in pastoral ministry, It’s been my honor to serve you the past 18 months as director of Grow in Grace. A particular honor of this calling was writing Grace Notes, meant to ...
Preach the Word – November/December 2021
The Sermon and the Proper Law and gospel. These two teachings, the most important truths of the Bible, must form the heart and core of the preacher’s sermon, and of the two, the gospel must ...
The Resurrection Fact: Responding to Modern Critics
Each contributor within The Resurrection Fact responds to modern critics of the historical death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. This is the event on which justification became a reality. “He was handed over to death ...
Four Branches – October 2021
Jump to: Exegetical Systematic Historical Practical Exegetical Theology: Historical Gaps - What is the allusion? Because the holy writers had background knowledge and life experiences in common with their first audiences, they could make quick ...
Four Branches – May 2021
Jump to: Exegetical Systematic Historical Practical Exegetical Theology: Direct Speech, Indirect Speech and Reported Consequences Linguistically speaking, the Gospels read a bit like a Hemingway novel, only with less wine consumed. Hemingway, in contrast to ...
Four Branches – April 2021
Jump to: Exegetical Systematic Historical Practical Exegetical Theology: Proclaiming Life with 1 John - Part Two Last time, we began to look at a sampling of ways the apostle John pairs an empty tomb to ...
Four Branches – March 2021
Jump to: Exegetical Systematic Historical Practical Exegetical Theology: Proclaiming Life with 1 John - Part One A series of readings from 1 John blankets the Sundays of Easter from Easter 2 to Easter 7. 1 ...
Four Branches – February 2021
Jump to: Exegetical Systematic Historical Practical Exegetical Theology: The Valley of Dry Bones – Part 3 In Ezekiel’s vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, God promised to give his exiled people new life as ...
Four Branches – January 2021
Jump to: Exegetical Systematic Historical Practical Exegetical Theology: The Valley of Dry Bones – Part 2 Spiritual life comes through faith in the promises and grace of God. Commentators point out that spiritual life is ...
Four Branches – October 2020
Jump to: Exegetical Systematic Historical Practical Exegetical Theology: Tell Me Up Front – Topic Last month we saw that one reason a word or phrase will be moved up front ahead of the verb is ...