by Jared Tuttle | Mar 30, 2023 | Articles, Blog
Part II: Shalom – The Result of God’s Blessing In his excellent volume, “Not the Way it Ought to Be: A Breviary of Sin,” Cornelius Plantinga parts the curtains to give the reader a “backstage” peek into God’s intentions in Christ: The webbing together of God, humans,...
by Jared Tuttle | Mar 14, 2023 | Articles, Blog
At the spring 2023 NextGen Gathering, we will wrestle with a familiar term: “blessing.” This word is so common that it shouldn’t require much commentary. And yet, as is often the case, we may only have a vague idea of the precise meaning of terms employed in daily...
by Jared Tuttle | Feb 28, 2023 | Articles, Blog
In our last post, we hit an amazing crescendo, an intensity of God’s covenant to Abram and generations of faithful followers that involved a faith and a promise. In our final post in this series, we’re going to take a look at the implications of God’s promise, and how...
by Jared Tuttle | Feb 16, 2023 | Articles, Blog
In our last post we took a moment to consider the moment when unbelief (e.g. belief in the ANE gods) becomes belief in the One True God. It’s not yet fully formed in Abram’s heart, but it’s something worth stepping into, and that’s everything to God. We see from...
by Jared Tuttle | Jan 22, 2023 | Articles, Blog
In our last two stories, we get a glimpse of God’s command to Abram to leave his country and his father’s household and go to a country God will show him. We also teased out God’s promise to Abram in Genesis 12:2, which is a stark anthesis to man’s desire to make...
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