Genesis 12:10-20 sets out the remarkable account of Abram in the land of Egypt. It is remarkable on several accounts. It is the first instance of the sinfulness of Abraham. This is generally the focus that many expositors place in their explanation of the passage. God uses sinful men and women, who even go so [...]

In recent years it has become increasingly common for theologians to focus their attention on the sphere in which redemption occurs. The Temple motif from the Garden of Eden to the Heavenly City–New Jerusalem–is traced out in such noteworthy works as O. Palmer Robertson’s Christ of the Prophets, and Understanding the Land of the Bible; [...]

When discussions concerning Biblical Theology arise, it is unusual for Matthew Henry to be mentioned as a model of this grand theological discipline. As a young believer I would often rush home from a Worship service and read Matthew Henry on the particular passage preached that Lord’s Day morning. On one occasion I distinctly remember [...]

Perhaps you have heard someone try to explain a theology of temptations. Sometimes it seems like the rubics cube of all theological endeavors. On the one hand every good Calvinist knows that God is absolutely sovereign over each and every temptation. At the same time, Calvinists are extremely careful not to lay the temptation itself [...]

Identifying the precise role of the particular aspects of theocratric Israel’s legal system is difficult in any given theological system, but particularly in Covenant Theology (a system that stresses the radical unity of the Old and New Testaments). While this is the case, the difficulty does not hinder the appropriateness of the system, if the [...]

There has been no shortage of writing on the nature of the two trees in the center of the Garden of Eden. From the earliest time in New Testament church history, the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and the Tree of Life have been understood to be fundamental elements of human history. [...]