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Resurrection Hope in a Season of Death
It’s April, and we are still under quarantine. The hospitalized can’t see loved ones, patient wards continue to expand, and more burial plots are dug. While most in the world ignore the cries of the nearly 125,000 babies who are aborted globally every day, very few on...
Light for the Fight
LIGHT FOR THE FIGHT Jason S. DeRouchie (3/9/14) And I will lead the blind in a way that they do not know, in paths that they have not known I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I...
Shine On!
“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it” (John 1:5). “For God, who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness,’ has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ” (2 Corinthians 4:6)....
Behold Your God!
A POETIC MEDITATION ON THE HOPE OF ISAIAH 40 “Behold your God!” comes the alarm. With mighty arm he rules and saves. The shepherd-king, his word is sure No war or roar; his sheep secure, though grass withers and flowers fade. Good news announced; he comes with...
Jesus’s Only Bible: 7 Tips for Preaching the Old Testament
Pastors and teachers, with Paul, I “charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word” (2 Tim. 4:1–2). And when you do, don’t forget the Old Testament—the “sacred...
The Location of the Red Sea Miracle: A Biblical Case for the Gulf of Aqaba
Earlier this week cinemas throughout the country showed "Patterns of Evidence: The Red Sea Miracle, Part 1." As I noted in a previous post, after Christ's saving of believing sinners from God's just wrath, Yahweh's delivering the nation of Israel from Egypts unjust...
The Red Sea Miracle and the Wondrous Glory of Yahweh
Next to the saving work of Jesus, the greatest redemptive event in history was when Yahweh delivered Israel from Egyptian bondage––an entire nation set free from slavery to the greatest known power on earth. As Moses himself declared, For ask now of the days that are...
Indianapolis Seminary: The Old Testament Law and the Christian
We live in a world were most religions outside Christianity teach that we justify ourselves before God by our good deeds (legalism). Then there are professing believers who continue to assert that in light of Jesus's justifying work on our behalf, calling others to...
DeRouchie Resources 2015–2019
Books How to Understand and Apply the Old Testament: Twelve Steps from Exegesis to Theology. Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 2017. Reviewed at booksataglance.com (Mar, 2017); Them 42.2 (2017); JETS 60.2 (2017), Credo Magazine (April 26, 2018), MSJ 29.2 (2018)....
DeRouchie’s 2019 Resources
Articles /PDF/ “Why the Third Day? The Promise of Resurrection in All of Scripture.” June 11, 2019: www.desiringgod.org /PDF/ “Foreword.” Page vii in 66 Bible Sonnets by Blaine Turner. 2019. /PDF/ “A Life centered on Torah (Ezra 7:10).” An exegetical insight on pp....
About Jason S. DeRouchie
Dr. Jason DeRouchie (PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is a churchman and a passionate teacher driven to exalt Jesus from the Old Testament and to help Christians better grasp why the initial three-fourths of the Bible matters for Christians. He is Research Professor of Old Testament and Biblical Theology and Rich and Judy Hastings Endowed Chair of Old Testament Studies at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri. He also serves as Content Developer and Global Trainer with Hands to the Plow Ministries and as a pastor of Sovereign Joy Baptist Church in the northland of Kansas City, MO.