I am writing an article each week for our choir that will guide us in meditating on Christ during this Easter season. Below is the first of many to come. “I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will strike your head, and you will strike [...]
This is the second part of a previous article with regards to the sacrificial system. We first looked at how the sacrificial system was a type to the antitype, who is Christ. Now we will look at how the author of Hebrews sums up for us in showing that Christ has put an end to [...]
Romans 3:21-26 How is it that God will once and for all deal with the sins of His people? D. M. Lloyd-Jones in a small booklet with the same title as this article states, “God at one and the same time remains just and can justify the ungodly that believe in Christ. That was the [...]
John 17 John chapter 17 can be broken into three pericopes: Jesus prays for Himself (John 17:1-5); Jesus prays for His disciples (John 17:6-19); and Jesus prays for all believers (John 17:20-26). The focus of this article will be what Jesus asks of the Father in the prayer for Himself in verses 4 and 5: [...]
Psalm 110 So far in our Easter series, we learned five characteristics of the Messiah. He is to be born of a woman (Genesis 3:15), He is to be a king from the tribe of Judah (Genesis 49:8-10), He is to atone for sins (Exodus 33-34), He will establish an everlasting kingdom (Daniel 7:9-14), and [...]
John 11:1-44 When reading a book, a poem, or a short story, the reader’s main goal is to ascertain the author’s intent for writing. One must read the meaning out of the text and not into the text. The author has carefully prepared his thesis and the reader must do the job of understanding it.
Joshua Parker