Why do the nation...
Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel togetheragainst the Lord and against his Anointed, saying,Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us.He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derisionThen he will speak to them in his wrath,and terrify them in his fury, sayingAs for me I have set my King on Zionn, my holy hillPsalm 2:1-6Let us pray for the wounded,Let us grieve for the dead,Let us stop those that do evil,Let us keep our eyes fixed on the Lord.Please pray for the families and woun

Kingdom of God Outline: In Full
Here ya go.

Mark Jones and Christian Charity
I've been super busy this week, but I did come across this post by Mark Jones. Frankly, I couldn't agree more. Here is a sample:In the end, while I don’t agree, for example, with a Klinean view of the covenant of works, there’s no way I’m going to lose sleep over someone who espouses a Klinean view of the covenant of works. To me, that debate is an intramural Reformed discussion, which is best talked about over beer or two or …Thankfully, dealing/chatting with Dr. David Rim at Moody taught me the importance of charity in academic discussions (though practic

NT Intro Paper
I have finally settled on a topic for my NT Introduction Exegesis paper. I will be exploring the theme of Jesus' recapitulation as Israel and the fulfillment of all righteousness as it pertains to the new exodus imagery in Jesus' baptism in Matthew 3:13-17. I will propose that Jesus' baptism was not merely a simple identification with the people who were to repent and be cleansed (because the kingdom of heaven is near) nor was his baptism simply an example of the forthcoming practice of Christian baptism (though these nuances/aspects are not necessarily excluded). Instead, Matthew evokes Exodus imagery in his baptism. The baptism of Jesus symbolizes Israel's passing through the Red Sea a

Piper isn't the only one to say it!
This is how Vos begins chapter 8!We have already seen, that not the thought of man's welfare, but that of the glory of God was supreme in our Lord's teaching concerning the kingdom. While emphasizing this, we must not forget, however, that to him this thought was inseparably connected with the idea of the greatest conceivable blessedness for man. That God should reign was in his view so much the only natural, normal state of things, that he could not conceive of any true happiness apart from it, nor of it without a concomitant state of happiness for those who give to God the first and the highest place. This is in general the connection between the kingship of God as