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This is the last installment of the 1 Samuel 15 discussion before we move on to the garment imagery in Numbers 15 with the giving of the tassel. Worth every minute.
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January 8, 2025 Andrew Sargent
101 Most Misunderstood Verses, Bible Backgrounds
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Will the wonder never cease? Keep watching to learn about the power of garment imagery in the Bible and how understanding it opens the true meaning of many texts.
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January 8, 2025 Andrew Sargent
101 Most Misunderstood Verses, Bible Backgrounds
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This is the first of a long series looking at garment imagery in Scripture. Keep watching as these unfold… you’ll be glad you did. We have several the look first at 1 Samuel 15 and another set that focuses on Numbers 15. We will, however, unpack so many...
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January 8, 2025 Andrew Sargent
101 Most Misunderstood Verses, Bible Backgrounds
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We continue our discussion on the importance of Reading Genesis for what it is… a worldview document of the creation of the order of the world. It is curtailed to the issues on the table at the time of its writing and, thus, helps those struggling in a...
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August 19, 2024 Andrew Sargent
101 Most Misunderstood Verses, Uncategorized
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I knew a man who returned to Christ after decades of drugs and dealing, trafficking girls, violence, theft, and homelessness. Raised in church, he came back on fire for Jesus, witnessing openly and boldly everywhere he went. His life choices had a body count. He was diminished in...
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August 1, 2024 Andrew Sargent
101 Most Misunderstood Verses
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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...
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July 26, 2024 Andrew Sargent
Biblical Language Issues
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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.
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July 21, 2024 Andrew Sargent
101 Most Misunderstood Verses
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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:...
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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...
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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...
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July 10, 2024 Andrew Sargent
Biblical Language Issues, Reviews
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...
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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...
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July 8, 2024 Andrew Sargent
101 Most Misunderstood Verses
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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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July 2, 2024 Andrew Sargent
Bible Backgrounds, Biblical Studies, Biblical Theology, Old Testament Studies
Proverbs 29:18 is a two part proverb, but few quote the whole thing... thus they misunderstand it meaning completely.
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June 15, 2024 Andrew Sargent
101 Most Misunderstood Verses, Old Testament Studies, Politics
In this lesson we turn to a detailed analysis of how the Scriptures develop the well story in the lives of Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Ruth, and Saul. We also consider specifically how these stories inform our reading of John 4.
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June 8, 2024 Andrew Sargent
101 Most Misunderstood Verses, New Testament Studies, NT's Use of the OT
There are six “Well Stories” in Scripture. These are variations on a romantic tale where the will of God is worked out through His saints. The five Well Stories in the Old Testament provide the literary background for properly reading John 4 where Jesus encounters the woman at...
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June 8, 2024 Andrew Sargent
101 Most Misunderstood Verses, Biblical Studies, New Testament Studies, NT's Use of the OT
God is holy in His essence as true God. When we meet Him as He intends us to do, we become holy to Him, isolated to His service. There are practical rules for belonging to the holy and when those rules are imbibed into our souls we begin...
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May 25, 2024 Andrew Sargent
101 Most Misunderstood Verses, Biblical Studies
