by Jason DeRouchie | Mar 18, 2024 | Application, Law, Uncategorized
Instruction through the Lens of Christ Moses matters for Christians, and yet he spoke in a context that’s very different from our own. The old covenant is not the covenant we’re under. We are under the new covenant. So all of Moses’s instruction matters but only...
by Jason DeRouchie | Feb 16, 2024 | Bible Study, Scripture, Uncategorized
Nurturing Delight The Old Testament (OT) is big and can feel daunting, especially because it is filled with perspectives, powers, and practices that seem so far removed from Christians today. While we know that the psalmist found in it a perfect law that revives the...
by Jason DeRouchie | Nov 15, 2021 | Bible Study, Uncategorized
To summarize How to Understand and Apply the Old Testament, this blog journey has supplied twelve steps from exegesis to theology. I categorized each of the twelve under the acronym TOCMA, which stands for Text > Observation > Context > Meaning >...
by Jason DeRouchie | Aug 15, 2021 | Bible Study, Uncategorized
Text (Genre, Literary units and text hierarchy, Text-criticism) Observation (Clause and text grammar, Argument-tracing, Word and concept studies) Context (Historical and Literary context) Meaning (Biblical and Systematic theology) Application (Practical theology) Once...
by Jason DeRouchie | Aug 15, 2021 | Bible Study, Uncategorized
What is Systematic Theology? Systematic theology is the study of the Bible’s doctrine designed to help us shape a proper worldview. Systematic theology presupposes that the Bible gets reality right, and it assumes Scripture’s overarching unity while affirming the...
by Jason DeRouchie | Jul 15, 2021 | Bible Study, Uncategorized
God gave us his word in a book that is made up of multiple books. Whereas biblical theology (step 10) looks more at Scripture as a whole, literary context focuses on the individual parts as they come to us within their overall canonical context. It’s the difference...
by Jason DeRouchie | May 15, 2021 | Bible Study, Uncategorized
Step 8 of the interpretive process moves us from “Observation” to “Context” as we consider, “Where does the passage fit?” This post considers the historical context, and the next will consider the literary context. Starting to Assess Historical Context By considering...
by Jason DeRouchie | Apr 15, 2021 | Bible Study, Uncategorized
In God’s wisdom, he chose to give us his Word in a book shaped by words. Words often carry a range of meanings, dependent on the context. If I say “trunk,” many different images may come to mind: (1) the main woody stem of a tree, (2) the torso of a person or animal’s...
by Jason DeRouchie | Mar 15, 2021 | Bible Study, Uncategorized
When interpreting Scripture, we observe carefully by considering how a passage is communicated. We have already established the literary units and text hierarchy (step 2) and assessed clause and text grammar (step 5). So, we are ready to finish tracing the literary...
by Jason DeRouchie | Feb 15, 2021 | Bible Study, Uncategorized
With step 5 of the interpretive process we move from “Text” to “Observation,” and we consider a series of issues related to how a passage is communicated. Our initial goal is to assess the makeup and relationship of words, phrases, clauses, and larger text units. In...