The following represents a select number of actual questions recently sent in to the ministry (lightly edited for brevity, clarity, and anonymity).
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Spanning from chapter thirty to chapter thirty-three, this “Book of Consolation” also contains one of the most key passages in all the Old Testament—the promise of the New Covenant. Because of its massive significance, this passage is widely known. But because it’s widely known, it’s widely misunderstood.
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But after prophesying the coming destruction and exile of the people, Jeremiah ended with a glorious promise that one day things would be better for those who trust in the Lord. There would come a time in which a godly shepherd would lead his flock properly. There would be a kingdom in which things were set right.
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The evidence that Habakkuk understood all of this is found in the final chapter, in which Habakkuk uttered a lyrical, liturgical prayer expressing that he indeed would trust God no matter the circumstances.
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Though the days ahead are unknown, and the pandemic rages on, God is not done blessing His people and conforming them to the likeness of His Son. There is much heartache in this pandemic, but there is also much hope.
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Pastor, seminary president, and author Dr. Joel Beeke addresses this dilemma with the concept called “Reformed experiential preaching,” a phrase which also serves as the title of his five-hundred page treatise that answers, illustrates, and expounds upon this premise.
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Over the course of a half hour, we briefly touched on my personal background, the background to writing the book Expository Parenting, and various parenting issues.
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In other words, everything that God is and does is holy. Psalm 99, which celebrates God’s majestic holiness, describes His holy reign over all creation, His holy righteousness expressed in justice, and His holy relationship with His people.
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As divine warning shots, those past acts of judgment merely foreshadowed the judgment that God still has yet to unleash upon the earth. Zephaniah prophesied that there is coming a time in which the whole earth will be consumed (cf. Zeph. 1:18).
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Unlike Jonah, who was a messenger of grace to the city of Ninevah one hundred years prior, Nahum was a messenger of judgment. Writing decades before the fall of Ninevah, during the reign of King Manasseh in Judah, Nahum not only predicted the outpouring of God’s wrath upon Assyria, he pronounced it—and for good reason.
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