Wright on the question of Israel

As much as I like NT Wright, I found this podcast interview with Wright unconvincing.  In it, Wright argues that God, for the most part, is done with ethnic Israel.    This doesn’t make good sense to me since so much of Wright’s work has focused on how the end of exile plays into the New [...]

Ezekiel and the end of the exile

Ezekiel 38 and 39 have always been just a big mystery to me.  Let’s face it.  Ezekiel is not exactly ideal devotional material.  He was kind of a weird dude, shaving his head, running around with a frying pan, cooking over poop.    But when I realized just horrible the exile must have been to him [...]

Ezekiel’s dry bones

So last Sunday I preached on Ezekiel seeing God’s shekinah glory in chapter 1.  This week my text will be Ezekiel 37.  This is one of the most familiar passages in the book, and yet it’s not quite about what most folks think it’s about. 
Ezekiel sees a vision of resurrection.  He sees the dry bones of [...]

more artwork

I found some artwork on the OT prophets. Check it out.   

Ezekiel stuff

Here’s some more material that I found on the book of Ezekiel. 
http://www.calvincrc.org/sermons/topics/ezekiel/
http://www.etsjets.org/jets/journal/32/32-1/32-1-pp027-049_JETS.pdf  Daniel Block is an awesome teacher.  Check this one out if you’ll interested in Ezekiel.

Ezekiel and God’s glory

Here’s an interesting article about the book of Ezekiel and the opening of vision.

Ezekiel

I’ve been studying the book of Ezekiel lately.  It’s pretty cool, a little weird at times.   Ezekiel was a man called by God to do some pretty odd things, to say some pretty strange things, and to see some very marvelous things.  As a priest, Ezekiel’s prophecy centers around God’s presence.  (more…)

Podcasts

Recently I got into checking out several different podcasts.  Here are a few that I’ve really enjoyed. 
Andy Stanley and North Point Ministries  He’s preaching on temptation and our confidence in God.
Ravi Zacharias  He’s on Ezekiel and the calling of a prophet.  Good stuff.  Ravi tells great stories. 
Dave Ramsey.   My brother Jon got me hooked on [...]

Bible maps

While preparing for preaching on Ezekiel in the near future, I found this cool site with a bunch of Bible maps. 

Preaching

Pastor Dan will be gone for the next couple weeks.  I’m going to be preaching on the 13th and 20th.  Over the course of the semester, I’ve been reading Ezekiel and I’ve been thinking about preaching from it.  It’s pretty difficult.  Maybe that’s why I’ve only heard about one sermon from the book, and it [...]