Review of Counseling the Hard Cases: True Stories Illustrating the Sufficiency of God’s Resources in Scripture, by Stuart Scott and Heath Lambert, editors, Nashville: B&H Publishers, 2012, xv + 308pp., hdbk, $32.99. This book is a much needed fillip to those of us who try falteringly to help hurting people by pointing them back to Christ and His Word. There are many resources now available to the biblical counselor to guide him or her in their attempts to become better …
Category: Theology
Christ at the Center: The Fulcrum of Biblical Covenantalism – Introduction: Part 1a, 1b, 1c, Jesus and the New Covenant: Part 2a, 2b, 2c, The Covenant God Incarnate: Part 3a, 3b, The Role of Jesus, the Word, as the Ground of Meaning and Significance: Part 4a, 4b The Hermeneutics of Jesus (Part One) We have seen that everything in the biblical outlook is centered on Jesus Christ. Naturally, I’m not the only one who says such a thing, but virtually …
Christ at the Center: The Fulcrum of Biblical Covenantalism – Introduction: Part 1a, 1b, 1c, Jesus and the New Covenant: Part 2a, 2b, 2c, The Covenant God Incarnate: Part 3a, 3b, The Role of Jesus, the Word, as the Ground of Meaning and Significance: Part 4a Christ and Interpretation As the Word issued by God in the act of creation Christ turned thought into deed and brought about, through the Spirit, the physical universe in which we dwell. This physicality …
Most of our English Bible versions translate Hebrews 9:16-17 this way (I have provided vv.15 and 18 for context): And for this reason He is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. 16 For where there is a testament, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. 17 For a testament …
Here’s a tight synopsis of “Biblical Covenantalism” which I placed in the combox of my contrast between it and Classic Dispensationalism. Synopsis: Presupposition – God’s actions always follow His words e.g., Gen. 1:11-12, 24-25, 26-30; 11:7, 9; 2 Kings 1:3-4, 16-17; 5:10, 14; Jn. 21:21-23. (More so when He obligates Himself in a covenant). 1. There’s a bit to it, but I believe the first covenant is that with Noah and creation in Gen.9. 2. 2 Pet. 3:6-7a divides “the …
Christ at the Center: The Fulcrum of Biblical Covenantalism – Introduction: Part 1a, 1b, 1c, Jesus and the New Covenant: Part 2a, 2b, 2c, The Covenant God Incarnate: Part 3a, 3b The Role of Jesus, the Word, as the Ground of Meaning and Significance As I see it, the identification of Jesus Christ with the New Covenant which actualizes the other eternal covenants, not only secures the promissory stipulations within those covenants, it ensures the vertical personal relationships that have …
Let me start where I left off last time, with definitions of inspiration and inerrancy. The Inspiration of Scripture – Proposition: “The Scriptures come from the God who breathed them out and caused them to be inscripturated through men who were ‘borne along’ by the Spirit. That is what makes them Scripture.” – 2 Tim. 3:16; 2 Pet. 1:20-21; Matt. 4:4; Jn. 17:17; Psa. 119:89-91 Inerrancy – Proposition: “The inspired Scriptures are the Word of God before they are the …
I am a Reluctant Dispensationalist. If someone wants to know what my general outlook on the Bible is I will tell them it is Traditional or Classic Dispensational. I then feel compelled to qualify this confession by making it clear that I do not follow the Tim LaHaye’s and Hal Lindsey’s of this world. Where our theological paths cross I might find myself in agreement with them a fair bit of the time. I would not agree with their Arminianism …
Series so far: Christ at the Center: The Fulcrum of Biblical Covenantalism – Introduction: Part 1a, 1b, 1c, Jesus and the New Covenant: Part 2a, 2b, 2c, The Covenant God Incarnate: Part 3a Although it is not within the design of the present series to demonstrate it, the incarnation of the Christ, the Son of God, is a watershed event eagerly anticipated in the Old Testament. What has begun to be shown is that Christ’s relationship to the New Covenant …
Series so far: Christ at the Center: The Fulcrum of Biblical Covenantalism – Introduction: Parts 1a, 1b, 1c, Jesus and the New Covenant: Part 2a, 2b, 2c The Covenant God Incarnate We have seen that Jesus Christ is both the Instrument of Divine Creation (Jn. 1:3; Col. 1:16a), the Owner (Jn. 1:10; Col. 1:16b), Upholder (Col. 1:17; Heb. 1:3), and Savior (Jn. 1:29; Matt. 19:28a) of that Creation. We shall also see that Christ will rule over that which is …
