The fact that God created man in his own image means something. To be an image-bearer means that we have, by definition, certain responsibilities to fulfill to our creator. God designed us with a plan in mind, and our responsibility is to carry out... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Lecture 7 of 12 in Covenant Theology Matthew 5:43-48 What do you think of when you think of common grace? Sometimes those words are used to mean that grace which leads to salvation for all people: namely, that ability to choose Christ which... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. ROMANS 12:2 For Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the first rule of... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Last session we saw how “God’s multiple bonds with His people ultimately unite into a single relationship.”That was the big idea last week. In that statement we see the seeds of diversity. God did have multiple bonds, and in Christ they are un [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Lecture 6 of 12 in Covenant Theology Perhaps the chief problem of method today is the overall trend of suspicion against systematic theology. We have said at the outset that Covenant Theology is a hybrid of biblical and systematic theology, though... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
The unity of Scripture is one of the hardest things for us modern evangelicals to see. We see this division of Old and New Testament in our Bibles and assume that God had two different peoples and two different plans. We see multiple covenants [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
If you were to take your concordance or any Bible software and look up the word covenant, you would find the first appearance of the word in Genesis 6. This is the account of Noah and the flood. While giving instructions on how to build the ar [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Covenants means very little if anything in our contemporary culture. The word is used rarely, and when used generally the meaning has been completely stripped away. In God’s court, which is the entire created universe, the meaning remains unal [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Lecture 5 of 12 in Covenant Theology Jeremiah 31:31-34, Hebrews 8:13, 9:11-18 King Josiah renewed the old covenant in 2 Kings 23 and Jeremiah was alive to see it. But what the Lord is saying through his prophet is that this new covenant will not be... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
