Archive for February, 2008
Early Lyrics
Friday, February 29th, 2008Note: I recently deleted all of my poems from this site, but I have now decided to post them again over the next few days, compiled into four volumes, beginning with the earliest and proceeding to the most recent. Here’s the first volume, “Early Lyrics”. Following will be “Portraits from Scripture,” “Later Lyrics,” and “After […]
Images of the Savior (6 — The Promise Made to Abraham)
Thursday, February 28th, 2008And Yahweh said to Abram, “Go from your land and from your kindred and from the house of your father, unto the land which I shall show you; and I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great, and you shall be a blessing; […]
Book Review: Grandpa’s Box, by Starr Meade
Monday, February 25th, 2008Synopsis: Set in suburban, twenty-first century America, and yet ambitiously covering all of history in its scope, Grandpa’s Box, by Starr Meade, is a book that speaks to children from a venue that they understand, and tells them what they most urgently need to hear. This is, as the subtitle suggests, simply a retelling of […]
Images of the Savior (5 — Noah’s Ark)
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008And behold, I am bringing a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy from under heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything that is on the earth shall perish. But I will confirm my covenant with you, and you shall come into the ark: you and your sons and your […]
Images of the Savior (4 — The Life of Abel)
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008And Abel also brought from the firstborn of his flock, and from their fat; and Yahweh had regard for Abel and for his offering. – Genesis 4:4 Very soon after God had made his first promise to mankind that he would send a Deliverer, he began to advance his redemptive design along several different lines, all […]
Book Review: The Jesus Storybook Bible, by Sally Lloyd-Jones
Friday, February 8th, 2008Synopsis: “Now, some people think the Bible is a book of rules….Other people think the Bible is a book of heroes…”, begins Sally Lloyd Jones, in The Jesus Storybook Bible; “but the Bible isn’t mainly about you and what you should be doing,” she continues: “It’s about God and what he has done”. This refreshing […]
A New Lampmode Album
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008In the past, I’ve highlighted some albums from Shai Linne and Timothy Brindle, two Lampmode hip-hop artists with some rock-solid reformed theology. Well Shai just finished a new album, The Atonement, ready to be released February 12th, and already available for pre-order at Lampmode. I just received a copy, and it really is excellent — […]
Images of the Savior (3 — The First Gospel)
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed: he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel. – Genesis 3:15 After our first father Adam had rebelled against the word of God, thereby losing all of the blessings and privileges of the glorious state into […]
Book Review: The Big Picture Story Bible, by David Helm
Friday, February 1st, 2008Synopsis: The Big Picture Story Bible, written by a gifted story-teller with an uncanny insight into childhood imagination, and illustrated by a talented child-at-heart, is for all its simplicity a rock-solid explanation of the big-picture message of the bible: the gospel story of Jesus Christ, promised and prepared for in the Old Testament, fulfilling all […]