Death Swallowed Up! (Isaiah 25:1-12)
CrossWay Community Church
April 17th, 2022
Understanding the Prophets (with Eric Tully)
Out of all the parts of the Bible, many find the Old Testament prophetic literature to be among some of the most difficult to read and understand. The prophets can feel incredibly distant, addressing unfamiliar historical situations. Their writings can feel bizarre, using imagery that’s hard to understand, or even unruly—”Can someone provide me a roadmap to these books?” And yet Eric Tully argues that the prophetic writings serve as an important junction in between God’s foundational activity in the Old Testament (think Genesis-Chronicles) and how God will finally resolve that story in Christ (the New Testament). If we want to understand the Old Testament and Jesus(!) we need to understand the prophets.
Access the episode here. (Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, and more.)
A Tale of Two Cities: Reception vs. Rejections (Acts 17:1-15)
A Tale of Two Cities: Reception vs. Rejection (Acts 17:1-15)
Christ the King Church, Kenosha, WI
April 3rd, 2022
Strange New World & The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self by Carl Trueman | Book Recommendation
The speed at which the recent sexual and gender identity revolutions have overtaken culture is staggering. How did we get to the point where, for instance, a statement like “I am a man trapped in a woman’s body” can now be spoken and understood, whereas even a generation ago this string of words wouldn’t have been seen as intelligible? Yet now we all know what is meant. What conditions laid the groundwork for such ideas to take hold–and not just take hold, but so quickly?
In 2020 Carl Trueman released his award-winning book, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to the Sexual Revolution. And now he has published a shorter and more accessible treatment of this topic, Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual Revolution (March 2022). In these two books, Trueman guides us through both the philosophical trends and societal factors that have moved our modern culture toward this era of “expressive individualism.” He shows us that the sexual revolution and its accompanying identity politics are just the most recent symptoms of these larger shifts in how we’ve come to conceive of human nature.
The Incarnation as God’s Tabernacling (Faithlife’s Bible Study Magazine)
The following is an article I published in the March 2022 edition of Faithlife’s Bible Study Magazine.
Kirk E. Miller 