Anecdotage: PORTRAITS FOR LADY DAY
Reading an article today on the Feast of the Annunciation sparked a strong memory. My wife and daughter and I spent a glorious week at Christmas 2001 in Florence. While…
Category: Biblical Devotional
“I’M TRADING MY SHAME”: A Sermon Preached on Good Friday 2018
Today we remember the Passion of Jesus Christ. The word “passion” sounds odd to us, does it not? We associate passion with positive things, like love – “I love you…
The Person And Work Of The Holy Spirit
Presented at the Global Anglican Future Conference 21-26 October 2013 By Rev. Prof. Stephen Noll “Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, as it…
KARLA FAYE TUCKER AND THE DEATH OF CHRIST: A Meditation for Holy Week
On February 3, 1998, Karla Faye Tucker, the confessed pickaxe murderer who came to faith in Christ while in prison, was executed, having been refused a pardon by the governor…
THE RAPE OF DINAH: Foolproof Composition or Imaginative Construal
THE NEED to interpret the Bible is axiomatic in the history of theology, for Christianity has always been, as one author puts it, a “hermeneutical religion.”(1) Only a super-Puritan would…
THE HALF-EMPTY TOMB
I preached this sermon on Easter Wednesday 1990 at Trinity School for Ministry. I wonder how many of you have read Anne Tyler’s book, or seen the movie, titled The…
WHEN DID THE EXILE END? Perspectives from the Intertestamental Period
A lecture delivered to the IBR Intertestamental Literature Section of the Institute for Biblical Research (November 1989) AS A TEACHER of the history of Israel, I have always drawn a…