Week 3 – Shepherds Joy: The Proper Response to the Good News of the Messiah’s Coming Sunday reading: Luke 2:8-20 Monday reading: John 1:1-18 Tuesday reading: John 3:1-21 Wednesday reading: John 4:1-26 Thursday reading: John 4:27-42 Friday reading: Luke 7:1-10…
Guide to Week 2 Advent Readings
I recently posted Advent Bible readings for this year. I have prepared a handout in English and Spanish here. It might be helpful for me to provide a short guide to go with those readings. Here is my guide for…
Guide to Week 1 Advent Readings
I recently posted Advent Bible readings for this year. I have prepared a handout in English and Spanish here. I think that it might be helpful for me to provide a short guide to go with those readings. Here is…
The Covenant Formula in Revelation 21:7 and Genesis 17:7-8
In a recent post, I wrote about the covenant formula in Revelation 21:3. As I indicated in that post, I became interested in the covenant formula due to my work in Revelation 21. This interest led me to read and…
The Covenant Formula in Revelation 21:3
In four previous posts, I provided a summary of points from Rendtorff’s The Covenant Formula. I became interested in the covenant formula due to my work in Revelation 21. Revelation quite clearly mentions the covenant in Revelation 11:19 when it…
The Covenant Formula by Rolf Rendtorff (part 4)
As I stated in my previous posts, the covenant formula occurs repeatedly in the Old Testament. It is part of the stock language of the Old Testament that is used to express God’s covenant relationship to his people. In The…
The Covenant Formula by Rolf Rendtorff (part 3)
As I stated in my previous posts, the covenant formula occurs repeatedly in the Old Testament. It is part of the stock language of the Old Testament that is used to express God’s covenant relationship to his people. In The…
The Covenant Formula by Rolf Rendtorff (part 2)
As I stated in my previous post, the covenant formula occurs repeatedly in the Old Testament. It is part of the stock language of the Old Testament that is used to express God’s covenant relationship to his people. In The…
The Covenant Formula by Rolf Rendtorff (part 1)
I have been interested in the “covenant formula” for a while, because it appeared to be an important aspect of the covenant language of the Old Testament. I found myself further drawn to the covenant formula when I began to…
How Does the New Testament Help Us to Understand Typology?
The authors of the New Testament provide inspired examples of typology, which go back to the teaching of the apostles and their teacher, Jesus himself. Therefore, the most important guide for discerning genuine types and for tracing out typological relationships…