When I first became a Christian back in 1998, as I finished my last year at school, I threw myself into the Old Testament (the First Covenant) almost as much as I threw myself into the New (Second Covenant). I figured that because the Bible was roughly 2/3 OT and 1/3 NT that getting into [...]
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Torah: Guide and Stipulation
Posted in Meditation on God, Old Testament on 28 March, 2012 (Wednesday) | Leave a Comment »
Exegetical Essay on Judges 17
Posted in Bible college, Old Testament on 22 September, 2011 (Thursday) | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I handed in an exegetical essay on the riches of Judges 17, the idolatry of a man named Micah. If you’d like to read it, you can do so here. As culpable as Micah is of his idolatry, I really feel for him, because he is so lost, being in a family that is [...]
He Began With Moses
Posted in Old Testament, Preaching (Homiletics) on 14 September, 2011 (Wednesday) | Leave a Comment »
One of my Bible college lecturers edited a book on preaching the Old Testament named ‘He Began With Moses’. It has some terrific material on how to preach lament, how to preach Song of Solomon, how to preach the law, and other pertinent topics.
Song of Songs: Flame of Yah(weh)
Posted in Old Testament, Redeemed Sexuality on 27 August, 2011 (Saturday) | Leave a Comment »
In my core Old Testament Background and Methodology class at Bible college, I am really enjoying the things that I am studying. My prof is taking us through the meta-narrative of the Old Testament by showing us books of the Bible which occasionally to rarely get preached on, including Lamentations, Judges, Canticles (Song of Solomon), [...]
London’s Lamentations
Posted in Lamentation and Woe, Old Testament on 11 August, 2011 (Thursday) | Leave a Comment »
London’s burning, just as The Clash once sang in the 1980s. The images of this are somewhat reminiscent of what happened in the Book of Lamentations to Jerusalem. I think I’ve just found an analogy for my exegetical Bible college essay.
Historical and Exegetical Essays
Posted in Bible college, Bible translations, Homelitics, Old Testament, Theology Study on 10 August, 2011 (Wednesday) | Leave a Comment »
Later this semester at Bible college, I’m scheduled to write two essays for the topic ‘Old Testament Background and Methodology’: one is a historical essay, which will be on the geographical and historical background of the passage (I’m going to do that on Judges 사사기 17-18); and a second exegetical essay. For that one I [...]
Old Testament B&M Assignment 1
Posted in Old Testament on 6 August, 2011 (Saturday) | Leave a Comment »
At last! I’ve finished my first Old Testament Background and Methodology assignment for the unit. I had lots of fun writing it. Here it is, if you’re interested (1,000 words, roughly). And remember: if you’re thinking of using it to plagiarise, keep in mind that Yahweh God is watching! Yom shalom.
Preaching and the candy store
Posted in Bible college, Grief, Hell and Judgement, Homelitics, Lamentation and Woe, Old Testament, Theology Study on 1 August, 2011 (Monday) | Leave a Comment »
When it comes to new books, I’m like a kid in a candy store. Today I gorged myself on some theological candy with the arrival of the book Choosing to Preach: A Comprehensive Introduction to Sermon Options and Structures by Kenton C. Anderson. Anderson is the head of a homiletics organisation in North America and [...]
OT B&M Assignment 1
Posted in Old Testament on 29 July, 2011 (Friday) | 2 Comments »
For my first Old Testament background and methodology assignment, I need to read and review a book on the OT named ‘Making Sense of the Old Testament: Three Critical Questions’, by Tremper Longman III (whose name is reminiscent of an Egyptian pharaoh). I thoroughly recommend this short book to anyone who wants to understand the [...]
Pisseth Against the Wall?
Posted in Old Testament on 28 July, 2011 (Thursday) | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday in Old Testament class, my lecturer had all the students in stitches as he took us through the story in 1 Samuel 25 of a woman named Abigail (whose name means ‘daddy’s blessing’ in Hebrew), who later bacame King David’s wife. At the time that she met God’s anointed king, she was married [...]
