One thing I have been really searching for in my reading for the past year or so is to grasp the surrounding context of the biblical events. I’ve been spending a good bit of time with my nose in the biblical atlas and the encyclopedia, trying to fill in the gaps. One of the things I’ve noticed is there was…
I recently stumbled across John Bunyan’s little booklet, “Questions About the Nature and perpetuity of the Seventh-Day Sabbath,” a fascinating insight into Bunyan’s views on Covenant Theology and the continuation (or not) of the Mosaic Law. The booklet is written with the purpose of refuting the “Seventh-Day Baptists”—Baptists who had apparently taken to the belief that it was necessary to…
There’s been a quote by D.A. Carson making the rounds on the blogosophere, most recently here (emphasis not mine): Martyn Lloyd-Jones once spoke with a group of medical students who complained that in the midst of their training and the ferocious work hours they really didn’t even have time to read the Bible and have their devotions and so on.…