The ESV Bible Blog (English Standard Version of the Bible) has announced ESV.to. It promises “Simple, short links to your favorite scripture passages in the ESV Bible”. Here’s the blurb from the blog: We have developed a URL shortening service for the ESV Bible: ESV.to. URL shorteners simply convert long addresses into shorter ones (helpful …
Ligon Duncan likes Systematic Theology and Biblical Theology. But he just can’t understand why some folk seem to have ST run a very poor second to BT. It’s a trait that is evident in Sydney evangelicalism. Whether it’s the accusation that the Bible is treated like a bank of data to be mined and not …
Greidanus’ outlines seven legitimate ways of preaching Christ from the Old Testament. Now he brings these seven to bear on Ecclesiastes 1:1-11 As he’s already noted, two of his seven, promise fulfillment and typology, are not applicable in the main to Ecclesiastes. Here are scant summaries of how Greidanus treats the other five: Redemptive-Historical Progression: …
Sidney Greidanus identifies three difficulties in ‘Preaching Christ From Ecclesiastes’: 1. Selecting a proper preaching text; 2. Formulating a single theme; and 3. Preaching Christ. In his treatment of the third of those points Greidanus writes: ‘Ecclesiastes contains not even one “messianic text”; there is not promise of the coming Messiah. How does on preach …
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