Unintended Consequences
As Boaz set out for the city gates, early in the morning, he had a defined mission to pursue: secure …
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Obedience at Midnight
Naomi’s concern to secure “rest” for Ruth in the form of a happy marriage leads Ruth out to the threshing …
Grace Finds Ruth
Ruth 2 In transitioning from chapter 1 to chapter 2, the narrative moves from a tale of tragedy and bitterness …
Call Me Bitter
Ruth 1 If we were to use modern day movie genre’s to categorize what the book of Ruth is, we …
Unhinged
Judges 19-21 Words fail to describe the wickedness which is narrated in these concluding chapters. This narrative provides a window …
Institutionalized Idolatry
Judges 17-18 A thief, a Levite, and a wayward tribe unwittingly conspire together to establish idolatry in northern Israel. This …
Antioch: A Model Church for a Postmodern Age
Acts 13 Jesus made it clear that he called his church to storm the far corners of the vast frontiers …
The Book of Deliverers Pt. 6: Samson Crushes the Philistines.
Judges 13-16 Almost no other Biblical story fires the imagination like the Samson narrative. It is impossible not to be …
The Book of Deliverers Pt. 5: Jephtah’s Wicked Sacrifice
Judges 10-12 Too many people are horrified by this story because human sacrifice is obviously more than distasteful, it is …
Judges 9 | The Book of Deliverers Pt.4: Abimelech’s Failed Kingship
The apostle Paul spins out a proverb in Galatians 6 warning Christians to be careful what they sow, on account of the fact that …
Judges 6-8 | The Book of Deliverers Pt.3: Gideon.
This passage explores the tale of two Gideons: weak Gideon and self-asserting Gideon. The tale of Gideon’s weakness is designed …
Judges 4-5 The book of deliverers pt.2: Deborah, Barak, and Jael
These chapters show what kind of cultural decay sets into a society when it rejects God’s law and replaces it …
Mark 10:32-45
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1 Timothy 3:1-13 Christ in the offices
Sometimes it can seem that studying church government is kind of ho-hum, as if it is kind of like studying …
1 Timothy 3:1-6 The Regulative Principle of Church Government
The Reformed churches are notorious for confessing the regulative principle of worship, which means, that God is to be worshiped …
Judges 3:7 The Book of Deliverers Pt 1: Othniel, Ehud, and Shamgar
God put this generation of Israelites to a test: kill evil by conquering the Canaanites or follow after the ways …
2 Corinthians 2:12-17 | Toward a Theology of Missionary Perseverance
Nothing can be more discouraging and depress the forward movement of missionary work than the apparent failure of missionary preaching …
