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November 2004

November 14, 2004
Scripture has a lot to say about the blessings of old age. ?The gray head,?Ethe...
November 14, 2004
INTRODUCTION Last week, we looked at some NT texts that used the ?ceremonial law?Eof the...
November 12, 2004
Jonah obeyed God’s commission, and preached successfully to Nineveh. They all repented in sackcloth. Earlier,...
November 12, 2004
In his Teaching Company lectures on Chaucer Seth Lerer notes the ethnic and class distinction...
November 12, 2004
Caveat: I am no scientist. If details of the following are in error, please let...
November 11, 2004
A thought inspired by Oswald Bayer’s Living By Faith: Justification and Sanctification : The doctrine...
November 11, 2004
Luther writes: “The Father in divine things is Grammatica, for he gives the Word and...
November 11, 2004
Now the King Shlomoh loved women, Foreign ones, Many. And the daughter of Pharaoh. Moabiyyot...
November 10, 2004
Justification is not the end of a story, but the beginning. Consider Noah, who was...
November 10, 2004
November 09, 2004
INTRODUCTION Solomon was set up on a throne like a new Adam, but like Adam...
November 07, 2004
1 Kings 10:4-5 The glory and prosperity of Solomon?s kingdom is particularly on display at...
November 07, 2004
Proverbs 1:8-9 What is your goal as parents? There are of course many ways to...
November 07, 2004
The Queen of Sheba came to Jerusalem a skeptic. She had heard about Solomon?s wisdom,...
November 06, 2004
INTRODUCTION What is known as the ?Regulative Principle of Worship?E(RPW) is one of the distinctive...
November 06, 2004
In his fine little book The Bible and Liturgy , E.H. van Olst briefly describes...
November 03, 2004
Putin had a shrewd comment about the outcome of the election: “If Bush wins, then...
November 03, 2004
Now the queen of Sheba heard the hearing of Shlomoh to the name of Yahweh...
November 03, 2004
INTRODUCTION 1 Kings 10 continues to show the ambiguous character of Solomon?s reign. On the...
November 02, 2004
The proposition: We tell stories only because God is Triune. The argument: 1) A story...
November 01, 2004
Merold Westphal is a remarkable philosopher. Extremely well-informed and careful, he is also remarkably lucid,...
November 01, 2004
Merold Westphal is a remarkable philosopher. Extremely well-informed and careful, he is also remarkably lucid,...
November 01, 2004
The sexual laws of Leviticus 18 have long been puzzling on a couple of levels....
November 01, 2004
The phrase “righteousness of God” in Romans 1:17 has been the subject of considerable dispute...
November 01, 2004
Theodore Jennings and Tat-Siong Benny Liew have a curious article in the Fall 2004 issue...
November 01, 2004
In a review of Joseph von Eichendorff’s collected works ( TLS , October 1, 2004),...

October 2004

October 27, 2004
Some intriguing quotations from Luther’s treatise on Two Kinds of Righteousness . 1) The first...
October 27, 2004
INTRODUCTION Because of the imperfections of the reformation of the Eucharist in the sixteenth century,...
October 27, 2004
THE TRIPLE BODY OF CHRIST As Henri de Lubac pointed out, the history of Eucharistic...
October 27, 2004
The notes that follow in this and the following two posts are for lectures to...
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