John Mark Hicks

In Psalm 106 exilic Israel confesses the sins of their ancestors and identifies with them. They recognize the solidarity that shape a people, including their sin and rebellion. They also confess God’s merciful response to sin, and they appeal to God to remember God’s covenant love and renew mercy again. This is a corporate confession […]

Psalm 105–part of the “mini-Bible” (Psalms 103-107)–sings God’s praise for how God’s steadfast love revealed itself in God’s history with Abraham, Joseph, Moses & Aaron, and their journey to Sinai. God is a covenant keeper; and God entered into an everlasting covenant with Abraham that would identify Israel as God’s own possession (chosen ones), multiply […]

Psalm 105–part of the “mini-Bible” (Psalms 103-107)–sings God’s praise for how God’s steadfast love revealed itself in God’s history with Abraham, Joseph, Moses & Aaron, and their journey to Sinai. God is a covenant keeper; and God entered into an everlasting covenant with Abraham that would identify Israel as God’s own possession (chosen ones), multiply […]

Bobby Valentine and John Mark Hicks walk through the meaning and significance of Psalm 114. This is a playful song with a serious and dramatic meaning. God liberated Israel from Egypt and chose to dwell with them, mocked the gods of the waters and mountains, and, in the end, invited the earth to dance in […]

This link downloads a paper I wrote in 2018 for the Stone-Campbell Conference at Johnson University in April, 2018. The title of the paper is: “God has not kept [the Jews] these many years for nothing”:[1] Alexander Campbell on Israel, the Church, and Eschatology The quote that heads the paper is: “The unbelieving Jews were […]

I recorded these in Ghana, Africa, at the request of Dr. Nathan Bills who teaches at Heritage Christian University in Ghana. The full play list is available at this link. The six videos are:

“Toda la tierra de Canaán, en la que ahora eres extranjero, te la daré a ti y a tu descendencia después de ti en posesión perpetua; y yo seré su Dios” (Génesis 17:7-8). “[Yahweh] nos trajo a este lugar y nos dio esta tierra, tierra que mana leche y miel” (Deuteronomio 26:9). Cuando la tierra […]

Book Recommendations by John Mark Hicks I have been doing a lot of reading in this area for years and much more recently. In fact, the first week in October I finished the definitive history of the October 1974 war between Israel and Egypt in the south, and between Syria and Israel in the north. […]

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 […]

Texts: Amos 5:14-15, 24; Zechariah 7:8-12; Malachi 3:1-5 Days 27-29 in Around the Bible in Eighty Days. When Jesus characterized Israel’s Scripture as the “Law, the Prophets, and the Psalms” (Luke 24:44). The previous two classes discussed the Torah (Law) and Wisdom (which is typically included among the “Psalms” and often called “The Writings” in traditional […]