by Jason DeRouchie | Oct 10, 2013 | Holiness, Love & Grace, Uncategorized
Love. There are few things so universal and yet so challenging. Love for God. “The most important” commandment, says Jesus (Mark 12:29–30), and one that both the old and new covenants portray as necessary to enjoy God’s sustained favor. As Moses asserted, Yahweh...
by Jason DeRouchie | Oct 1, 2013 | Articles/Essays, Bible Study, Biblical Theology Themes, Context, Covenant, DeRouchie, Mission, Observation, Text
In this essay, DeRouchie shapes a biblical theology of Genesis through discourse analysis and a close eye to content. Beginning with the observation that the ten toledot that shape the structure of the book are distinguished by whether they lack or include a...
by Jason DeRouchie | Aug 20, 2013 | Biblical Theological Overview of the Bible, Biblical Theology Themes, DeRouchie, Law, Temple
Dr. DeRouchie writes, “The priest/scribe Ezra was a man whose life provided a model of godly leadership to a people in desperate need of hearing God’s Word and seeing God’s will lived out in practical ways. You have learned that the Infinitive Construct with...
by Jason DeRouchie | Jul 29, 2013 | Articles/Essays, Biblical Theology Themes, Covenant, DeRouchie, Holiness, People of God
In this essay, DeRouchie explores the biblical meaning of circumcision and evaluates how the translators of the official Targums handled metaphorical circumcision language. This essay was originally published in the Bulletin for Biblical Research 14.2 (2004) 175–203....
by Jason DeRouchie | Jul 7, 2013 | Bible Study, Biblical Theological Overview of the Bible, DeRouchie
As God’s disclosure of himself and his purposes in a way we can understand, the Bible is about the good news of God’s kingdom––a kingdom established through covenant for God’s glory in Christ Jesus (Luke 4:43; 24:44–47; Acts 1:3; 20:25; 26:22–23; 28:23, 31). The...
by Jason DeRouchie | Jul 4, 2013 | Announcements, Bible Study, Biblical Theology Themes, Books, Context, DeRouchie, Text
What the Old Testament Authors Really Cared About is a message-driven, thematic survey of the Old Testament survey that is brief, multi-author, book-by-book, gospel-centered, and theologically rich. It is written from a conservative evangelical perspective, targeted...