Category: OT Theology
The Boring Parts of Scripture
On this week’s Mere Fidelity, Matt, Derek, and I discuss the ‘boring’ parts of Scripture: genealogies, numbers, lists of laws, sacrificial rituals, etc. How can we read such parts profitably?
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Sun, Moon, and Stars: Part II
Talks on Pentecost
Over this past weekend, I had the privilege of spending a few days with Cornerstone Reformed Church in Carbondale, IL, where I explored the subject of Pentecost for their 2019 Easter Conference, in preparation for the coming season. You can listen to the five talks, a sermon, and a Q&A session here:
Interpreting Pentecost
Four Lenses on Pentecost
Unworking Babel
Revisiting Sinai
Making a Prophet
Sermon: The Death of Judas and the Reign of Christ
Q&A Session
Sun, Moon, and Stars
Theopolis Podcast: The Ordination Rite (Leviticus)

Having discussed the main sacrifices, Peter Leithart and I wanted to explore the way that they function together in various larger rites. In this episode we discuss the ordination rite.
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Parsing the Law—How to Keep the Sabbath
Within this episode I offer some follow-up thoughts to my discussion of the ritual and the moral Law in my previous episode. In particular, I discuss how we might keep the Sabbath command today.
Ritual and Moral Law
Today, I discuss the distinction between the moral and the ritual law, the threefold division of the Law, and natural and positive law.
Clean and Unclean Animals
What should we make of the distinction between clean and unclean animals? Is there some deeper reason that some animals are considered clean and others unclean?
The Family of Abraham: Part 42—Our Story?
In this, the final part of my series on the story of the family of Abraham, I discuss what relevance it might have for us today.
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