How Chronicles Points to Jesus The books of Chronicles points to Jesus in many ways. Here I will discuss three main themes in Chronicles and how they point to Jesus. Davidic King In contrast to the books of Kings (which describes events in the northern and southern...
What is God’s Name? In the Garden of Eden, Adam is given the task of naming the animals over which he will rule. Parents name their children because we do not as infants have the ability to name anything and because it is given to parents to distinguish and...
Can One Passage Have Multiple Applications? When an interpreter of Scripture considers how best to apply a passage, what are the limits? At one end, valid applications are limited by the textual meaning found through historical-grammatical exegesis.[1] Applications...
Separating True Stories and Hype: Telling the Story of God’s Work with Integrity Just the other day a friend sent me a report about the growth church planting movements across the globe. It was full of bloated statistics with conveniently rounded numbers in the...
The Long Voyage of Acts Luke spends last third of the Book of Acts, chapters 21-28, chronicling the Apostle Paul’s voyage to Rome. This raises an important question as to the purpose of all this. Why does Luke, who has previously recorded 20 years or...
