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SERMON: The Word of God – a Treasure Reading the Bible is, strangely enough, an overlooked topic. Many of us have become skilled and specialized, experts in our chosen “-isms” and “-ologies”. But to lose sight of our Source – and reliance on the essential Spirit who makes it for us much more...

This is another sermon that I gave online to a church in Pakistan. Being unsure of their level of understanding - both of their professed faith in Christ and the English of their translator – I tried to keep the address simple. But sometimes it is the simple truths that we tend to forget...

Last month I finished my book of various articles, Our Good Shepherd. My goal and prayer is that this book will be helpful for you. Our greatest security is in realizing in the deepest layer of our heart that Christ truly is our Shepherd, that our faith in Him will not disappoint. PDFs (or...

AW Tozer and the Order of Salvation Not everyone can hear Tozer's "voice" of the Shepherd. “My sheep hear My voice.” - John 10:27. The context of John 10 tacitly assumes that there are some who just cannot hear the Shepherd. But this has no place in Tozer’s soteriology.

All of creation will, some way or other, appear before our Creator. Wherever our eschatology has led us (rightly of wrongly) I hope we all realize this fact. We must avoid any teaching that robs these necessary Bema passages of their intended convicting power. Returning to the Biblical Bema...

Studying the account of these two pillars (1st Kings 7; 2 Chron. 3) we notice a startling fact: These pillars don’t hold up anything! Why is that? Merely decorative? Hardly. All the details of this temple were given to Solomon’s father David, and faithfully handed down. Clearly, they had a...

Ipoh, Malaysia. Part Two The name “Ipoh” comes from a poisonous plant, the Bark Cloth Tree, Antiaris toxicaria, (“pokok ipoh”), the latex which hunter’s used on their blow darts. The Kinta River generally divides the old town from the new. The old town is on the west side. This area is by far...

Ipoh, Malaysia We have been blessed with the opportunity to travel to so many places that there is a serious backlog of articles. Several places have been absolutely filled with adventures, most were good, a few otherwise. One country that both of us have missed is Malaysia. I just randomly...

Ipoh, Malaysia We have been blessed with the opportunity to travel to so many places that there is a serious backlog of articles. Several places have been absolutely filled with adventures, most were good, a few otherwise. One country that both of us have missed is Malaysia. I just randomly...

The Old Covenant Law Paul referred to as a “pedagogue” (παιδαγωγὸς) that leads to Christ. What an important word – yet difficult to precisely translate. The first part of the word is “child”. And that is what the Old Covenant era was, Israel’s childhood. And the New Covenant was, to borrow a...

After the final and supreme sacrifice of the Son there was no longer any validity in further sacrifices or, for that matter, any other obligation under the Old Covenant. Yes, many Jews continued observing rites, feasts and sacrifices of the Old Covenant, but mostly from ignorance or obstinence...

This passage is a problem for teachers of Covenant Eschatology (CE), seeing that the Feast days are a part of the Law. So are all the jots and tittles. This would mean that all Jews were obligated to obey all of it. Yet that would mean that grace was unavailable. Because Law and Grace are...

The Old Covenant was indeed fading away, but centuries before Gospel times. And how did the Old Covenant fade away? It faded in glory with every prophetical announcement and typological foreshadowing of the coming New Covenant. An incremental Ichabod. 4. The Old Covenant – including the Feasts...

It is true that the practicing of the Old Covenant Law continued for four more decades after the Cross. But from that time onward it was only a lethal witness, “the letter that kills“, 2 Cor. 3:6, against those who insisted on continuing in it. It had no validity or merit in the eyes of God...

In these next few articles the focus will not be strictly on the Feasts but on the foundations that show why they were no longer necessary in those four post-Calvary decades...

This is a detailed look at the Lev. 23 Feasts, specifically their relation to the New Covenant. As part of this study it is helpful to also consider the connected topics of the respective priesthoods, Old and New Covenant, and the limitations of the one and superiority of the other...

This is a detailed look at the Lev. 23 Feasts, specifically their relation to the New Covenant. As part of this study it is helpful to also consider the connected topics of the respective priesthoods, Old and New Covenant, and the limitations of the one and superiority of the other. Some of...

In ascertaining Biblical doctrine we ought to go from solid truth to peripheral possibilities. Our emphases ought to match the emphases of the New Covenant, not the Old. Also, the greater light of the New Testament should be applied to the Old, not the other way around...

It is tragic if any of his converts if they have seen God in the stars but have never been to the Cross. The Cross is what humbles us because it is the foolishness of the message that kills us. The Cross shows the extremes that God endured to rescue us from sin. “I am the Way and the Truth and...

https://asterisktom.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/oswald-chambers-a-cautionary-look-at-a-popular-devotional-teacher-2/ Oswald Chambers: A Cautionary Look at a Popular Devotional Teacher Chambers, in common with many of the so-called “deeper life” advocates, builds up an artificial tension between...