The 5 Discourses of Jesus
How Jesus retells and fulfills the whole Old Testament in 5 sermons
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Matthew
Patterns, Types, & the Gospel of Matthew (Part Two)
“Jesus is Israel. He is the people of God, the firstborn of the new creation – the new Genesis…the new mankind. Jesus is everything that God has promised.”
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Reading is a Magical Thing–and That Goes for Scripture Too
Reading is really quite mysterious. We take it for granted, but the fact that a series of scrawled symbols and shapes stained on a piece of paper can transport us into the mind of another human being is rather magical. But I’ve also become aware that there are different kinds of reading, or different ways
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On Parables, Metaphors, and the True Joy of the Father
I’ve been reading in the gospel of Matthew recently, and I just went through the passages where Jesus has been using parables to teach the people. At one point Jesus’ disciples ask him (I imagine in a somewhat bewildered tone) why he is speaking to the people in parables. Jesus gives a mysterious answer that
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