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The unnamed prophet of Joshua 6 recalls the words of Joshua, revealing a need for Israel’s savior

In both cases, the word fear is used in connection to Israel’s disposition: Israel was to fear the LORD and not fear the gods of the Amorites.

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Commentary & Exposition

- Judges
- Judges 6:1-32

The Scripture’s Account of Gideon: Preliminary Considerations

The narrative of scripture as a bulwark against moralism

It is true that [the preacher] must highlight the historical and practical significance that describes and prescribes human obligation; but most fundamentally, he must speak to those revelatory features of scripture that highlight the character and work of God.

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Commentary & Exposition

- Acts of the Apostles
- Acts 2:1-13

When Facts are Crowned with Meaning

A short introduction to the second chapter of Acts

The meaning of scripture, in this way, is the gift of God to the questions that he, himself, excites in man. This is illustrated on Pentecost day, in the litany of strange phenomena that overtakes the crowd that is gathered in Jerusalem.

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Ascribed & Prescribed (Notes on Ideas)

The Stump Speech Becomes Secularism’s Sermon

Flattery, politics, & the search for power

And yet, there is cause to think that this unbelief has become the very ground of a new positive consensus. It entails the unavoidably moral and religious inclinations that have always belonged to man, but attaches to them the kind of political and sociological expressions that Bottum describes in his book.

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Essays & Assorted Articles

Syrian Religion in Ancient China

Syncretism & religious aspiration

The human mind is such that it needs and seeks forms for its heartfelt expressions; even so, the human heart is such that it will too easily justify false forms for their purported service to truth.

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