Archive for the ‘Faithfully’ Category

  • Jonah’s Psalm

    Jun 13, 14 • Context, Faithfully, Genre, Jonah2 Comments
    Jonah’s Psalm

    The psalm in Jonah 2:2-9 (2:3-10 in Hebrew) is a fine example of a thanksgiving psalm, and everything in its expression and theology would sound fine in the book of Psalms. However, on Jonah’s lips after we have heard the narrative of chapter one, it takes a different flavour. Read in its place in the [&hellip...

  • Eliphaz: Truth into lies

    Eliphaz: Truth into lies

    It’s easy to preach lies from the book of  Job. It won’t be as obvious as preaching Atheism from Psalms (see Ps 10:4; 14:1; 53:1). All you have to do is take a passage from the speeches by his friends. Of course God tells us at the end of the book that they “have not spoken what [&hellip...

  • Getting the Point: not majoring on the minors

    Mar 11, 14 • Faithfully, ThessaloniansComments Off on Getting the Point: not majoring on the minors
    Getting the Point: not majoring on the minors

    Often Bible readers focus on things that are not the message the writer was trying to communicate. This is hardly “faithful” reading. So what is the danger and how do we avoid it? Putting the issue another way: Are you building you theology on rock or sand? BTW this and the previous video about Ezekiel’s [&hellip...

  • Ezekiel’s Spacemen: Prophecy Ancient or Modern? (Reading the Bible Faithfully, 2)

    Mar 6, 14 • Ezekiel, FaithfullyComments Off on Ezekiel’s Spacemen: Prophecy Ancient or Modern? (Reading the Bible Faithfully, 2)
    Ezekiel’s Spacemen: Prophecy Ancient or Modern? (Reading the Bible Faithfully, 2)

    Here is another video for my Reading the Bible Faithfully program...

  • What did the text mean?

    Feb 8, 14 • Faithfully, Reading the Bible FaithfullyComments Off on What did the text mean?
    What did the text mean?

    Updated version to fit into “Reading the Bible Faithfully” explains why thinking about what a Bible passage was intended to mean to its original hearers is really important. In passing it explains also something that makes the Bible different from other holy books which claim to be magical or timeless – the Bible claims to [&hellip...