An explorer's guide to the New Covenant hosted by Ron Bailey and Robert Wurtz II.
I am an accidental Arminian. By that I mean I have not ‘signed up’ to Arminius’ theology but as I discover it I find a fellow traveller. For some time I have been convinced that the main thrust of the
Convocations, they used to call them. A Trumpet blast, rallying call to the whole nation to assemble together in submission to God and his will. Old Israel had lots of them; their weekly convocation was the Sabbath, but their annual
So it was, on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him by the name of his father, Zacharias. His mother answered and said, “No; he shall be called John.” (Luke 1:59–60
‘The head of an old man’ Guernico. Used by kind permission of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Known unto GodIn British war cemeteries throughout the world, you will often come across the words ‘Known unto God’ engraved on the gravestones. The
The Child of Promise The typology of Isaac does not only relate to the true Son but also to all true sons. Paul the apostle refers to Isaac as a ‘child of promise’: Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are
Meanwhile a hundred miles away in the hill country of Judaea… The gospel according to Luke begins in Jerusalem and in the temple. It begins with an old priest and his old wife. Their testimony shines clearly through the text.
Person-to-person Let’s gather up some fragments that remain from this account of Abraham’s faith. (New readers to this column should be warned that the ‘fragments which remained’ ultimately proved to be more than the original meal!) In our last devotional,
Ready, steady, wait It is amazing to see how often exhilarating mountain-top experiences are followed by the testings in the valley. Paradise and Adam’s receiving of his wife is followed by his testing by Satan. David’s final conquest of his
Then the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name Jesus. He will be
Preface: Every story has a purpose and my re-telling of this story has its purpose revealed in our sub-title. Abraham’s life is rich in illustration of the purposes of God and the daily incidents of a pilgrim but our ultimate
