January 26, 2023
Texts: Luke 3:21-22; Luke 4:1-2a, Luke 4:16-21; Matthew 4:13-17 Days 33-36 in Around the Bible in Eighty Days. Israel needed a do-over. Humanity needed a do-over. The Messiah comes to recapitulate the story of humanity through the story of Israel. This lesson is the beginning of the Messiah’s participation in the story of Israel in […]
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Theodrama | Tagged: Baptism, Isaiah 61, Israel, Messiah, Ministry, Nazareth Manifesto, Red Sea, Reed Sea, Temptations, Trials, Wilderness |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
December 22, 2022
Texts: 1 Chronicles 29:29-30; Psalm 19:14 Days 20-22 in Around the Bible in Eighty Days. Every people-group has a history; they tell stories about their journey. And every people-group has a liturgy; they worship someone or something. Israel is no different. The Torah and subsequent histories (running from Judges through Kings and Chronicles to Ezra-Nehemiah) narrates […]
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Theodrama | Tagged: 80 Days Around the Bible, Genre, History, Israel, Law, Liturgy, Narrative, Poetry, Psalms, Torah |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
November 9, 2022
Texts: Genesis 12:1-3, 7a; Exodus 6:2-8; Exodus 19:3-6. Days 14-16 in Around the Bible in Eighty Days. Who is Israel, and what is her purpose? It is a new humanity in a new Eden to continue and further the mission of God in the world. Following the collapse of the world into violent imperialism and […]
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Biblical Texts, Theodrama | Tagged: Abrahamic Promise, Church, Covenant, Creation, Exodus, Exodus 19:3-8, Exodus 6:3-8, Genesis 12:1-3, Israel, Promise, Sinai |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
May 18, 2019
This is one meditation from the published book by John Mark Hicks, Around the Bible in 80 Days: The Story of God from Creation to New Creation (Abilene: Leafwood Press, 2022).
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Theodrama | Tagged: Acts, Christ, Church, Creation, Israel, Mission, New Creation, Story of God, Theodrama |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
September 8, 2017
We pray for daily bread, and we eat daily meals. Yet, some restrict the Lord’s Supper—the meal where we eat at the table of the Lord—to only and exclusively the first day of the week, Sunday. This restriction is a rather unique dimension of Churches of Christ. Is eating with Jesus (Matthew 26:29) restricted to […]
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Uncategorized | Tagged: Acts 20:7-12, Fellowship Offerings, Frequency, Israel, Lord's Day, Lord's Supper, Lord's Table, Sunday, Table of the Lord |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
January 7, 2016
This is the peak moment in the story of Jonah. God commissioned Jonah, but Jonah fled. God pursued Jonah, and Jonah relented and accepted the commission (after almost drowning). Jonah proclaimed hope/warning to Nineveh, and Nineveh repented. God “repented,” and Jonah… One might expect Jonah to rejoice, but this is not what Jonah does. Instead, […]
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Biblical Texts | Tagged: Exodus 34:6-7, Gentiles, God Creed, Israel, Jonah 4:1-4, Mercy, Resentment, Uncovenanted Mercies |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
June 21, 2015
This section is soaked in quotations, allusions, and echoes of the Hebrew Scriptures. Peter depends heavily on Isaiah 28:16, Psalm 118:22, Isaiah 8:14, Isaiah 43:20-21, Exodus 19:5-6, Isaiah 42:12, and Hosea 2:23. Out of the 126 Greek words that lie behind the English text, almost half of them are directly from the Hebrew Bible (quoted […]
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Biblical Texts | Tagged: 1 Peter, 1 Peter 2:4-10, Church, Identity, Israel, Mission, Missional, Temple |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
June 4, 2015
Elect exiles, scattered across the Roman provinces of modern Turkey, are the heirs of Israel’s story, which means they participate in the trajectory of not only Israel’s history but also its hopes. Significantly, the “salvation” in which believers rejoice is what Israel, through its prophets, anticipated. The living hope and future inheritance—“this salvation”—in which believers […]
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Biblical Texts | Tagged: 1 Peter 1:10-12, Angels, Church, Israel, Narrative, Prophets |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks