February 18, 2023
Thoughts in Light of the Asbury “Revival” On February 8, a rather routine chapel service at Asbury University developed into a continuous worship and nonstop prayer meeting where God has responded to the prayers for inner healing, deliverance, forgiveness, and reconciliation. According to what I’ve been told and the reports I have read, this continuous […]
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Church History, Theology | Tagged: Assembly, Awakening, Divine Presence, Liturgy', Presence, Revival, Worship Service |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
November 30, 2022
Texts: Exodus 40:34-38; Joshua 11:23; 1 Samuel 8:4-9 Days 17-19 in Around the Bible in Eighty Days. God led Israel out of Egypt into the wilderness to Sinai where God dwelt upon the earth. The purpose of the Exodus was not only liberation from slavery but encounter with God at Sinai whey they would become […]
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Biblical Texts, Theodrama | Tagged: 1 Samuel 8:4-9, Civil Government, Divine Dwelling, Divine Presence, Exodus 40:34-38, Government, Joshua 11:23, Kings, Land, Monarchy, Tabernacle |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
January 6, 2012
Zechariah, a priest who returned with other Babylonian exiles to Jerusalem in 537 BCE, appears before the people in 520 BCE as a prophet. “The word of the Lord” comes to Zechariah—he is given a message from God to the people. Zechariah sees himself in line with the former prophets with a similar message, a […]
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Biblical Texts | Tagged: Bible-Zechariah, Divine Presence, Prophets, Scripture, Temple, Word of the Lord, Zechariah 1:1-6 |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
June 17, 2008
When I think of the dramatic story of Scripture in terms of divine presence (as I did in my previous post on theological hermeneutics), my mind always turns toward the absence of those whom I have loved and lost. This may seem a strange twist, but it is a natural flow for me because divine presence […]
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Hermeneutics, Pastoral Care, Spirituality, Theology | Tagged: Assembly, Comfort, Death, Divine Presence, Eschatology, Eschaton, Grief, Hermeneutics, Holy Spirit, Pastoral Care, Presence, Providence, Worship |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
June 16, 2008
With this post, I will lay down my keyboard for a few weeks on this topic as I leave Friday or Saturday for a week vacation without electronics. But I will continue this series again upon my return. I envision six or seven more articles on “theological hermeneutics” and then a new series on “applied” theological […]
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Hermeneutics, Theology | Tagged: Assembly, Christ, Christology, Creation, Divine Presence, Eschatology, God, Hermeneutics, Holy Spirit, Incarnation, Israel, Narrative, Narrative Theology, Presence, Providence, Redemptive-History, Sanctuary, Temple, Theology, Worship |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks