Ligon Duncan is embarking upon a preaching series on Philippians at First Presbyterian Church, Jackson USA. The FPCJ blog is featuring a companion series of posts on Duncan’s gleanings in Philippians. If you are interested you can subscribe to the blog. Here’s the series introduction as a sample. Gleanings in Philippians: Solid Joys and Lasting …

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In the introductory section of his new commentary on Micah (EP Books, 2010) Dale Ralph Davis illustrates the problems of scholarly study and commentary on Old (and New) Testament texts. I can’t think of anyone whose commentaries and sermons produce so many laugh out loud moments from someone who doesn’t tell jokes. Davis just has …

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One sentence summaries of the whole Bible provided by pastors and scholars. Here’s Doug Wilson’s contribution: Scripture tells us the story of how a Garden is transformed into a Garden City, but only after a dragon had turned that Garden into a howling wilderness, a haunt of owls and jackals, which lasted until an appointed …

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Another example of the biblical information graphics available at Visual Unit. There are two images, click-through to examine. This time a contrast between the Old and New Covenants, with full attention of Jesus as the covenant keeper. The shadow and the reality in the book of Hebrews, i.e. the contrast between the old and new …

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