From Tim Chester’s A Meal With Jesus We need a theology of leftovers. The Old Testament people of Israel were told to gather just enough manna for one day (Exodus 16) When they tried to gather two day’s worth, it always went bad. If you acted as if manna was a finite resource that must …
More from Tim Chester’s new book A Meal With Jesus: Our meals express our doctrine of justification. It’s possible to articulate an orthodox theology of justification by faith, but communicate through your meals [and table fellowship] a doctrine of justification of works. pg53.
From Tim Chester’s new book A Meal With Jesus which I’m currently savoring: Commenting on the Pharisees’ response to Jesus’ presence at a feast hosted by Levi in Luke chapter 5, Chester comments: The problem here is not the party. The Pharisees knew God’s kingdom was going to be a party. Their objection is to …
Justin Taylor overviews an article by Dane Ortlund from the latest issue of Journal of the Evangelical Theological society (December 2010) entitled “‘And Their Eyes Were Opened, and They Knew’: An Inter-canonical Note on Luke 24:31” (pp. 717-728). Ortlund’s overview: The purpose of this article is to suggest that Luke 24:31 alludes to Genesis 3:7 …
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