April 24, 2024
Hebrews 9:11-28 But when Christ came as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation), he entered once for all into the Holy Place, not with the blood of goats and calves, but with his own […]
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
January 10, 2024
God Has Spoken Long ago God spoke to our ancestors in many and various ways by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom he also created the worlds. He is the reflection of God’s glory and the exact […]
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
May 15, 2023
I have now read the fifth of twelve books suggested by FB friends. This one was recommended by Michael Asbell. This is my summary. David Moffitt, Rethinking the Atonement: New Perspectives on Jesus’s Death, Resurrection, and Ascension (Grand Rapids: BakerAcademic, 2022). While the term “atonement” is most often used to describe the cross of Jesus […]
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
March 8, 2023
If you only listen to one in this series, listen to this one! Texts: Mark 15:33-37; Matthew 28:5-10 Days 50-51 in Around the Bible in Eighty Days. Death and Resurrection. This is the pinnacle of the gospel story. The Messiah is victorious in both death and resurrection. In death, the Messiah is obedient to death, […]
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
August 10, 2015
Because Christ also suffered… If one suffers for “doing good” as an expression of the will of God, Peter writes, it better to suffer for that than suffering for doing evil (1 Peter 2:17). Why is that? Because Christ also suffered… The Christ Narrative—the story of God in which Christ suffers for sins—is the reason […]
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
May 21, 2009
[Note: I am attempting to keep these SBD installments under 2000 words each, but that is–of course–quite inadequate for the topics covered. Consequently, these contributions are more programmatic than they are explanatory or defenses of the positions stated. You may access the whole series at my Serial page.] Jesus accomplishes the divine mission to make […]
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Posted by John Mark Hicks