Galileo said, “Mathematics is the language with which God wrote the Universe.” In Genesis 1:3ff, God said, “Let there be… and there was…” Psalm 19:1-4 praises, “The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, and night to...
Continue reading
July 29, 2024 Andrew Sargent
Meditations on God
No Comment
When I was growing up, if you said “trigger” everyone thought about guns or Roy Roger’s horse… maybe shooting guns while riding Roy Roger’s horse. Today if you say “trigger” someone is worried that something they’ve said or done has set off a negative chain reaction in someone...
Continue reading
July 26, 2024 Andrew Sargent
Biblical Language Issues
3 Comments
Shame[1] is bad… right?! Our whole society today cries how terrible it is. Only people who shame others should be made to feel shame. So shame must be bad, right?!! From a pure feelings orientation, shaming certainly looks victimizing, impresses as irredemptive… unloving, even. So, how can shame...
Continue reading
July 25, 2024 Andrew Sargent
Society
No Comment
As a teenager I worked in a grocery store doing anything that needed doing, whether bagging, cashiering, stocking produce, or even painting the kick spaces on the shelves. How many times a day will customers say, “Laying down on the job, Aye!” while painting those spaces? Many, indeed....
Continue reading
July 22, 2024 Andrew Sargent
So you've Accepted Jesus
No Comment
This lesson concludes the discussion of Lot's supposed offer of his daughters to save two male strangers. Things are not what they appear to a modern reader.
Continue reading
July 21, 2024 Andrew Sargent
101 Most Misunderstood Verses
No Comment
It shouldn’t be too long into joining a church that you hear something that strikes you as rather peculiar—The Second Coming of Jesus Christ… not to mention whispers of an equally peculiar book for which this events takes center stage—Revelation. For pagans, who dominated the globe from earliest...
Continue reading
July 20, 2024 Andrew Sargent
So you've Accepted Jesus
No Comment
Shared with Permission from Criswell Theological Review Interpreting The Wisdom Books: An Exegetical Handbook by Edward M. Curtis as part of the Handbooks for Old Testament Exegesis series edited by David M. Howard, Jr. Grand Rapids: Kregel Academic, 2017, 204 pp., $21.99 Paperback. In Interpreting The Wisdom Books:...
Continue reading
July 10, 2024 Andrew Sargent
Old Testament Studies, Reviews
Shared with Permission from Criswell Theological Review. Luke-Acts in Modern Interpretation in the Milestones in New Testament Scholarship series. Edited by Stanley E. Porter and Ron C. Fay. Kregal Academic, 2021, 398 pp., $31.99, Hardcover In Luke-Acts in Modern Interpretation,( 2021, Kregle Academic) Stanley E. Porter (PhD, University...
Continue reading
July 10, 2024 Andrew Sargent
New Testament Studies, Reviews
Shared with permission from Criswell Theological Review The Art of Bible Translation. By Robert Alter. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019, 129 pp., $24.95, Hardback In The Art of Bible Translation, Robert Alter (PhD Harvard University, 1962), Professor of the Graduate School and emeritus professor of Hebrew and comparative...
Continue reading
July 10, 2024 Andrew Sargent
Biblical Language Issues, Reviews
Shared with Permission from Criswell Theological Review The Good Shepherd: A Thousand Year Journey from Psalm 23 to the New Testament. By Kenneth E. Bailey. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2014, 283 pp., $24.00, Paperback In The Good Shepherd: A Thousand Year Journey from Psalm 23 to the New...
Continue reading
July 10, 2024 Andrew Sargent
Uncategorized
Shared with Permission from Criswell Theological Review Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible’s Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture. By Christopher Watkin. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Academic, 2022, 648 pp., $39.99, Hardcover In Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible’s Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life...
Continue reading
July 10, 2024 Andrew Sargent
Reviews, Theology
Shared with Permission from Criswell Theological Review A Ransom for Many: Mark 10:45 As Key to the Gospel. By John J. R. Lee and Daniel Brueske.Bellingham: Lexham Press, 2023, 203 pp., $24.99, PaperbackIn A Ransom for Many: Mark 10:45 As Key to the Gospel, John J. R. Lee...
Continue reading
July 10, 2024 Andrew Sargent
New Testament Studies, Reviews
It is common to portray Zipporah as a difficult and angry woman. I believe this is because of a rather poor understanding of the circumcision scene in Exodus 4. An equally poor translation has Zipporah disgusted with the fact that she has to step in to save Moses...
Continue reading
July 8, 2024 Andrew Sargent
101 Most Misunderstood Verses
Today we have a guest blogger. Amy Roberts Kinder has Master of Arts in Biblical Studies with a concentration in the Old Testament from Ashland Theological Seminary, and is a graduate of Northpoint Bible College presently located in Haverhill, MA. She is presently She has blessed us with...
Continue reading
July 8, 2024 Andrew Sargent
So you've Accepted Jesus
This article is for inclusion in a one month devotional for new believers called, “So You’ve Accepted Jesus.” It is almost finished. A Tip for Reading: You may want to read through at first just taking it all in, without looking everything up. Then it would be beneficial...
Continue reading
July 5, 2024 Andrew Sargent
101 Most Misunderstood Verses, Biblical Studies, So you've Accepted Jesus
In part two of A Still Small Voice in the Cool of the Day we conclude our discussion on two often overlook storm theophanies, one in Genesis 3 and the other in 1 Kings 19. (FYI: I highly recommend the works of Gregory Beale. I studied with him...
Continue reading
July 3, 2024 Andrew Sargent
101 Most Misunderstood Verses, Bible Backgrounds, Biblical Language Issues, Old Testament Studies
In this video, I begin a discussion about two overlooked storm theophanies in the Bible, one in Genesis 3 when God comes on in judgement against Adam and Eve, and the serpent, and the other in 1 Kings 19 when God comes to appoint Elijah as judge in...
Continue reading
July 3, 2024 Andrew Sargent
101 Most Misunderstood Verses, Bible Backgrounds, Biblical Language Issues
I’ve found myself in a bit of a quandary when trying to help other believers see Genesis the way that I have come to see it after years of studying culturally relevant Ancient Near Eastern creation and flood stories, culminating in my Doctoral Dissertation on the subject. You see,...
Continue reading
July 2, 2024 Andrew Sargent
Bible Backgrounds, Biblical Studies, Biblical Theology, Old Testament Studies
