by Jason DeRouchie | Mar 28, 2024 | Uncategorized
At stake in the question of the earth’s age is faithful exegesis of the biblical text aligned with a faithful interpretation of the scientific data. Because no one but God was present at the beginning, and because the Bible is God’s inerrant word, Scripture holds...
by Kaden Classen | Mar 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
I recently appeared on the Theology for the Church podcast. Caleb Lenard and I discussed a progressive covenantalist perspective on how Christians should apply Moses’s law today. We discuss whether the tripartite division of the law should be adopted, what laws...
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 25, 2024 | The Bible and Theology, Uncategorized
Is Christ really part of the Old Testament message? Should I, as a believer in the twenty-first century, claim Old Testament promises as mine? Do the laws of the Mosaic covenant still matter today for followers of Jesus? In short, is the Old...
by Jason DeRouchie | Feb 18, 2024 | Covenant, Law, Prophets & Prophecy, Uncategorized
When Jesus fulfills the Old Testament Law and Prophets, he is actualizing what Scripture anticipated and achieving what God promised and predicted (Matt. 5:17; 11:13; Luke 16:16; 24:44). Truly every promise in Scripture is “Yes” in Christ (2 Cor. 1:20), and in him God...
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 | Feb 13, 2024 | Biblical Theological Overview of the Bible, Uncategorized
“When the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son” (Gal. 4:4), and now we are living at “the end of the ages” (1 Cor. 10:11; cf. Rom. 13:11). Jesus opened his ministry by “proclaiming the gospel of God, and saying, ‘The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of...
by Jason DeRouchie | Jan 29, 2022 | Announcements, Audio, Biblical Theological Overview of the Bible, Blog Posts, DeRouchie, Lectures, Sonship, Uncategorized, Wisdom
DeRouchie, Jason S. “Interpreting Old Testament Wisdom” (Christian Challenge Leader Training, Kansas State University, Jan 17, 2022). Grasping the significance of the Old Testament’s wisdom literature is not just essential for understanding large swaths of 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...