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Rivers of His Presence: Old Testament Echoes in Christ’s Invitation to Drink

Isaac February 2, 2025 No Comments
Image of a large area of water, probably a river, in a desert. Green trees are all around the water.

This is a paper I wrote for a biblical theology course at Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary. I was assigned to demonstrate how biblical theology contributes to the understanding and application of a chosen passage of Scripture. The Judean wilderness is a harsh, desolate desert whose only major body of water continue reading…

Singing the Psalms – Even the Imprecatory Psalms?

Isaac July 25, 2024 No Comments

A common response to the argument that the Church is commanded to sing the psalms is the question “what about the imprecatory psalms?” And typically, the questioner then points to Jesus’ command, found in the Sermon on the Mount: “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your continue reading…

Two Thousand Years of Thought on the Intermediate State and Resurrection, part 2

Isaac July 9, 2024 No Comments
A view of a church building from its graveyard.

Continued from part 1. Reformation Era In many ways, the Reformation can be properly viewed as both a return to and development of what went before and not, as it is often popularly conceived, as a break from the past. Though speaking immediately in the context of the doctrine of continue reading…

Two Thousand Years of Thought on the Intermediate State and Resurrection, part 1

Isaac July 9, 2024 No Comments
A view of a church building from its graveyard.

I initially wrote the following posts in 2021 as a paper for an Historical Theology overview course at Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary. I was assigned to treat the development of the doctrine of one of the chapters in the Baptist Confession of which I chose chapter thirty-one “Of the State continue reading…

New Testament Priority – What did Abraham Understand?

Isaac April 25, 2024 No Comments
Somewhere in Israel

Introduction In the realm of Christian biblical hermeneutics, many Christians approach the Old Testament explicitly through the lens of the New Testament. They hold to and practice New Testament priority in interpretation. Others however object to this and argue that neither testament holds interpretive priority over the other. I hold continue reading…

Book Review – Regnum Caelorum: Patterns of Millennial Thought in Early Christianity by Charles E. Hill

Isaac March 27, 2024 No Comments
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An impressive survey of beliefs from the early Church. Hill’s primary thrust in this publication of his dissertation is that the chiliasm of the early Church was inextricably intertwined with a view of the intermediate state in which the saints were not permitted entrance to heaven/Christ’s presence until after Christ’s continue reading…

Singing the Psalms is Commanded of the Church, Both by Precept and Example

Isaac March 8, 2024 No Comments

The Command to Sing Psalms God’s people have always been a singing people. From ancient times, Israel sang the Psalms and the New Testament Church continued this practice. It was not until the modern era that Psalm singing has been completely neglected in the worship of God. This neglect is continue reading…

Book Review – The Gospel According to Dispensationalism by Reginald Kimbro

Isaac October 13, 2023 No Comments
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The second of Kimbro’s book that I have read, this one predates the other (Not As a Thief). Here, as in his other book, Kimbro is articulate and clear. He pursues the central idea by means of two major sub-points; the first, that Premillennialism has falsly (though frequently intentionally) been continue reading…

Audio Book Review – Perelandra by C. S. Lewis, read by Geoffrey Howard

Isaac September 23, 2023 No Comments
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Audio: The reader does a wonderful job reading through the book without being distracting or hard to understand. Excellent audio work. Book: Lewis again spins a fascinating tale that continues his foray into science fiction. His philosophical and theological bents are fully on display here with some of his ideas continue reading…

Book Review – Anticipating God’s Rest by Michael Seewald

Isaac September 22, 2023 No Comments
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An excellent, short introduction to the doctrine of the Christian Sabbath. Seewald navigates the difficulties surrounding a proper understanding of the remaining Sabbath rest for the Christian in a superbly irenic and almost effortless manner. He explains the difference between moral and positive laws, discusses the superiority of the New continue reading…

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