Archive for February, 2006
Understanding Isaiah (Lesson 10: The Sovereign Grace of God [Chapters 43-45])
Tuesday, February 28th, 2006Introduction: Our last lesson, taken from Isaiah chapters forty through forty-two, emphasized, first, the incomparable greatness of God; and second, the work of redemption to be carried out by the coming Servant of the Lord as the ultimate display of God’s incomparable greatness. As the text moves into our next portion for study, chapters forty-three through […]
Images of the Savior (8 – His Discourse with the Woman at the Well)
Saturday, February 18th, 2006John 4:13-14 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinks of this water shall thirst again: But whosoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. We may only […]
On the Birth of Our Son
Thursday, February 16th, 2006On the joyous occasion of the arrival of our firstborn son, Mishael Calvin Pitchford, we would like to express publicly our thanks and praise to God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. All of the bountiful gifts that God has lavished upon us reflect in some way who he is. Mishael is a greater […]
Understanding Isaiah (Lesson 9: The Incomparable Greatness of God [Chapters 40-42])
Saturday, February 11th, 2006Introduction: In Isaiah chapters thirteen through thirty-nine, we are struck again and again with the greatness of God’s plans – plans that involve every nation of the world, and extend to the furthest reaches of time. When we have begun to realize the greatness of God’s eternal plans and his mighty acts in history, we must […]
The Christ of the Psalms
Thursday, February 9th, 2006As evangelical Christians today, we should be ever grateful that, in the gracious dispensation of the sovereign God of history, when all the world lay in bondage under the grievous doctrinal errors of Roman Catholicism, the great reformers of the church arose to contend for the pure gospel that had been delivered to the saints. […]
Understanding Isaiah (Lesson 8: The New Creation: Christ’s Ultimate Work of Restoration - Part 2)
Monday, February 6th, 2006Introduction: The interplay between the worldwide judgment pronounced in Isaiah chapters thirteen through twenty-four and the world-restoration promised in chapters twenty-five through twenty-seven comes again to the forefront in the next cycle of prophecies, recorded in chapters twenty-eight through thirty-five. In this cycle of prophecies, we see God’s judgment announced upon his people in the direst […]
Baptism in the Old Testament
Saturday, February 4th, 2006The common conception that, in the debate over the proper subjects of baptism, the believers-only position is more concerned not to go beyond the clear example of scripture, where the believers-and-their-infants position has seen fit to extend the scope of subjects beyond that of explicit biblical testimony, by way of analogous reasoning, is at best […]