John Mark Hicks

God is holy! What does that mean? Psalm 99 provides an opportunity for meditating on the significance of God’s holiness. This brief Psalm helps us embrace the wonder, justice, and mercy of God’s holiness. Bobby Valentine and John Mark Hicks discuss this brief Psalm (9 verses!) that powerfully confesses that “The Lord our God is […]

This salvation, for which we bless God, in which we rejoice, and which fills prophets and angels with wonder (1 Peter 1:3-12), is the foundation and ground for everything else Peter writes in 1 Peter 1:13-2:10. “Therefore” (1 Peter 1:13) introduces the first section of the letter’s main body and roots it in God’s saving […]

[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.] Though neither bounded nor contained by the […]