Hermeneutics

Two ways to read the Bible

Tim Keller writes: Ed Clowney points out that if we ever tell a particular          Bible story without putting it into the overall main Bible story (about          Christ), we actually change the meaning of

Don’t short circuit texts

From an interview with Graeme Goldsworthy, author of Preaching the Whole Bible as Christian Scripture: Biblical theology shows us that all texts do not have the same relationship to the Christian believer. What

Preaching the historical books

Expository Thoughts has a good post reflecting on a chapter in Preaching from the Old Testament. This has a lot to do with preaching in a way that honors God as the subject

Gospel-Centered Hermeneutics

I'm looking forward to reading Gospel-Centered Hermeneutics, due out next March. "The focus of Gospel-Centered Hermeneutics is not word studies but 'Word study': a sustained reflection on the

Teaching God’s story

In her excellent book on children's ministry, Ivy Beckwith writes about some of the mistakes we make in teaching the Bible. Although she is writing about the way we teach children,