Time to Shout - Part 3

By James Boice

Theme: Silence and Obedience

This week’s lessons teach us how Israel was going to achieve their victory over Jericho, and what things God wants from us as well. 

SCRIPTURE: 
Joshua 6:11-16

There are several things the Lord told them. The first is that they were commanded to be silent. This is what Joshua told them in verse 10: “Do not give a war cry. Do not raise your voices. Do not say a word until the day I tell you to shout.” Now, I don't know how they did that. Can you imagine the difficulty there would be ordering a march of that scale without saying a word? It’s virtually impossible for a family of four or five to do this.  And they were not just to do it once. They were ordered to march around the city of Jericho once each day for six days and seven times on the seventh day. Yet as difficult as that seems to us, the Bible says they did this very thing in obedience to God’s command. 

 

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A Curious Statement

Posted on Tuesday, August 11, 2015 by Aimee Byrd on Housewife Theologian

Are you tall enough to ride this book?

I was eager to read G.K. Beale and Benjamin Gladd’s latest book, Hidden But Now Revealed, this summer. And I was not disappointed. Reading this book helped me to learn more about the relationship between the Old Testament and the New Testament.

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Biblical and Systematic Theology Sworn Friends

by Yaroslav Viazovski • August 11, 2015
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Let me start with a quotation. It does not matter who said that. What he said matters:

Exegetical theology investigates biblical teaching as the basis of our talk about God. . . . dogmatics as such does not ask what the apostles and prophets said but what we must say on the basis of the apostles and prophets.

Let me start with a quotation. It does not matter who said that. What he said matters:

Exegetical theology investigates biblical teaching as the basis of our talk about God. . . . dogmatics as such does not ask what the apostles and prophets said but what we must say on the basis of the apostles and prophets.

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5 Important Theological Pairs

by Nick Batzig • August 11, 2015

One of the many wonderful things about the Westminster Shorter Catechism is that it includes several extremely important theological pairs (i.e. joint categories) in the opening questions that help us robustly systematize the biblical truth concerning our relationship to God, God's work in the world, the nature and effects of man's sin and the saving work of the Redeemer. Much of the disagreement in theological matters, in our day, comes from only holding to one of the two truths set out in each of these pairs. As we labor to spiritually grasp both aspects of these pairs we will find that we become better equipped to spot theological error, defend the truth and to minister more effectively to others with theological precision and care.

One of the many wonderful things about the Westminster Shorter Catechism is that it includes several extremely important theological pairs (i.e. joint categories) in the opening questions that help us robustly systematize the biblical truth concerning our relationship to God, God's work in the world, the nature and effects of man's sin and the saving work of the Redeemer.

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Following Jesus 98

What happens to a person or a church which continues to compromise? What happens to a person or a church when they continue to expose themselves to evil, danger and non-truth? In a word they become corrupt.

 

What happens to a person or a church which continues to compromise? What happens to a person or a church when they continue to expose themselves to evil, danger and non-truth? In a word they become corrupt.

Corruption is being consistently ungodly and unrighteous. It is the inevitable result of compromise. When an individual or a  church opens itself to spiritual or moral danger and fails to recognize and repent of it then such compromise will dominate them. They will become corrupt. This corrupting influence may occur by a handful of people or just one.

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Time to Shout - Part 2

By James Boice

Theme: The Importance of Preparation

This week’s lessons teach us how Israel was going to achieve their victory over Jericho, and what things God wants from us as well.

SCRIPTURE:
Joshua 6:6-10

That’s a most unusual set of instructions for taking a city. One might even say that it was utterly unreasonable to think that the walls of Jericho would fall in such a manner. But Joshua obeyed the Lord, and the people obeyed Joshua. The city was encircled according to God’s precise instructions. And on the seventh day at the end of the seventh encirclement, the horns were blown, the people shouted, the walls fell down, and the city was taken as God told Joshua it would be. It was a great victory. It was the time to shout. It's interesting, however, as you read this story that even here in the sixth chapter of Joshua, we still find the people in a time of preparation. The people had been prepared in one way or another during 40 years of wandering in the wilderness. Certainly Joshua and Caleb had been prepared, going back that far. They were great men of faith. And they exercised their faith during that long delayed conquest. The armies were prepared. They had been prepared in the wilderness. And when the people had crossed the river, there was still further preparation that we looked at earlier, involving the rite of circumcision and the observance of the Passover. God was very concerned that the hearts of the people be right before Him before the assault began. 

 

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When the 'P' word is apparently not 'Presbyterianism'

Posted on Monday, August 10, 2015 by Carl Trueman on Postcards from Palookaville

'Don't call it a comeback' looks set to take on a new meaning.

Karl Marx commented that history repeats itself the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.  When it comes to ministerial falls, sadly the tradition today is to go straight to farce.  Thus it is with Tullian Tchividjian’s fall and rise.  All of the celebrity conventions are there: The use of a well-known counselor brought in specially, the faux intimacy of the twitter feed, and now a slick podcast on coming back after a fall – less than two months since his confession that he betrayed his wife a

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The inevitable progress of progressivism

Posted on Monday, August 10, 2015 by Todd Pruitt on 1517

The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship keeps progressing... 

 

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Following Jesus 97

How does the church find itself in danger of compromise? The Compromising Church Denys faith in Jesus Christ Alone as Lord. Vs. 14-15.  But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, so that they might eat food sacrificed to idols and practice sexual immorality. So also you have some who hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans.
 
How does the church find itself in danger of compromise? The Compromising Church Denys faith in Jesus Christ Alone as Lord. Vs. 14-15.  But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, so that they might eat food sacrificed to idols and practice sexual immorality. So also you have some who hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans.
 
The compromising church holds to of Balaam. This means that the church compromises itself by idolatry.

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Time to Shout - Part 1

By James Boice

Theme: The Challenge before Them

This week’s lessons teach us how Israel was going to achieve their victory over Jericho, and what things God wants from us as well. 

SCRIPTURE: 
Joshua 6:1-5

A number of years ago, there was a teacher at the University of Pennsylvania who taught in the ROTC program in the area of military strategy. His name was Lieutenant Colonel Ferris Kirkland, and he would often speak to his students about the most stirring lecture he had ever heard. Kirkland had invited a guest lecturer to his class to talk about the strategy of an ancient military general. The guest described to the students how this man, even so many years ago, exercised techniques that soldiers have used many times since. Kirkland gave some examples, such as driving into the very center of the enemies' territory and thus dividing his forces. Then, having divided the enemy army, one would then conduct a clean-up operation, first on the one side and then on the left. He also talked about surprise tactics and psychological warfare.

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