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  • Bible Art Job 1-4 The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away

  • Bible Art Esther 6-10 A foe and enemy! This wicked Haman!

  • Bible Art Esther 1-5 Who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

  • Bible Art Nehemiah 12-13 Remember me and do not wipe out my good deeds

  • Bible Art Nehemiah 10-11 Oath to walk in God’s law

  • Bible Art Nehemiah 8-9 For the joy of the Lord is your strength

  • Bible Art Nehemiah 7 Then my God put it into my heart to assemble the people to be enrolled by genealogy

  • Bible Art Nehemiah 4-6 Half worked on construction half held spears

  • Bible Art Nehemiah 1-3 Now I was cupbearer to the king

  • Bible Art Ezra 8-10 O Lord, the God of Israel, you are just

  • Bible Art Ezra 4-7 The people of the land discouraged the people of Judah

  • Bible Art Ezra 1-3 He is good, for his steadfast love endures forever toward Israel

  • Bible Art 2 Chronicles 35-36 Josiah kept a Passover to the Lord in Jerusalem

  • Bible Art 2 Chronicles 32-34 Hezekiah did not make return according to the benefit done to him

  • Bible Art 2 Chronicles 28-31 Burned his sons as an offering according to the abominations of the nations

  • Bible Art 2 Chronicles 25-27 As soon as the royal power was firmly his, he killed his servants who had struck down the king his father

  • Bible Art 2 Chronicles 21-24 They restored the house of God to its proper condition

  • Bible Art 2 Chronicles 18-20 We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you

  • Bible Art 2 Chronicles 13-17 We have priests ministering to the Lord who are the sons of Aaron

  • Bible Art 2 Chronicles 9-12 When the Queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon she came to test him with hard questions

Bible Art Job 1-4 The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away
Bible Art Esther 6-10 A foe and enemy! This wicked Haman!

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Book Reviews

Book Review – DeSilva, D.A., Honor, Patronage, Kinship & Purity: Unlocking New Testament Culture

2018-02-052018-02-18Josh

This book greatly helps its readers to understand the dominant cultural influences on the early church and serves as an excellent set of lenses by which to to interpret the New Testament. I recommend this [ Read More … ]

Book Review – Gilbert, G., What is the Gospel? (9Marks)

December 5, 2017

Book Review – Wright, NT., Paul Fresh Perspectives

December 2, 2017

Book Review – Luther, M., Bondage of the Will

November 17, 2017

Series

Calvins Institutes – 3.3.7 – Perpetually urge him to adopt a different plan of life, that he may be able to stand securely at that judgment-seat

2017-06-152017-07-03Josh

Calvin gives his definition of repentance. His understanding of repentance is that it is an ongoing process whereby a person turns to God, cutting out sin in the power of the Spirit. This is part [ Read More … ]

Calvins Institutes – 3.11.2 – A man is said to be justified in the sight of God when in the judgment of God he is deemed righteous, and is accepted on account of his righteousness

June 13, 2017

Calvins Institutes – 3.11.1 – Christ given to us by the kindness of God is apprehended and possessed by faith, by means of which we obtain in particular a twofold benefit

June 13, 2017

Calvins Institutes – 3.4.6 – We pronounce every man to be anathema who does not confess himself a sinner before God

May 22, 2017

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