Lamentations

#1215: How did Jesus promise the New Testament? | John 14 | Lamentations 4-5

#1215: How did Jesus promise the New Testament? | John 14 | Lamentations 4-5

You don’t have to look too hard to see Jesus affirm the Old Testament — both in whole when he used a phrase like “the law and the prophets,” and specifically when he affirmed the veracity of stories quoted many prophets by name. Oh, and directly quoted from 24 of the 39 books. But the New Testament? Wasn’t that written after his death?

#1213: What’s the Bible’s “tale of two cities? | John 12 | Lamentations 2

#1213: What’s the Bible’s “tale of two cities? | John 12 | Lamentations 2

If we ask, "What’s the Bible’s 'tale of two cities?'", you might guess that I’m talking about Jerusalem and Babylon. But the tale, the story, metaphorically permeates the whole of the Bible and therefore the Christian worldview.

#1212: What's the problem with pragmatism? | John 11 | Lamentations 1 | Proverbs 18:10-17

#1212: What's the problem with pragmatism? | John 11 | Lamentations 1 | Proverbs 18:10-17

If someone were to say, “She is pragmatic,” there is probably a good chance that that would be a compliment. After all, the dictionary definition of adjective pragmatic is that it means you deal with something sensibly and realistically, practically rather than theoretically. In philosophy, pragmatism means something altogether different…