Scripture

Jacob’s Wrestling Is Not A Metaphor

by Shane Rosenthal on November 28, 2025 | Comment

According to [Dennis Prager and Jordan Peterson], the ultimate point of Genesis 32 is that all of us are called to wrestle with God. When, for example, we wrestle with the implications of his existence on our lives, and on ultimate issues . . . Continue reading →

Sometimes A Table Is Just A Table

by Heidelblog on November 27, 2025 | 1 Comment

Psalm 23 is so well-loved and so familiar.  We might think we know what it means.  But then someone might come along and bring something new from it that we didn’t see before. In 1970, Phillip Keller published his book A Shepherd . . . Continue reading →

A Partial Explanation of Psalm One By Girolamo Zanchi

by Patrick J. O'Banion on November 11, 2025 | 4 Comments
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Zanchi’s explanation of the psalm provides an excellent introduction to his orations and to his thinking about theological education. In it he reckoned that the psalmist’s main message was simply that “we should devote ourselves, with our whole soul, to the pursuit of God’s law and piety and [that] we should meditate upon that law day and night.” As simple as is this plain reading of the text, it is a keynote to which Zanchi returned over and over. Continue reading →