Podcast Episodes

Deut. 25; Psalm 116; Isaiah 52; Revelation 22

Sometime translation difficulties prompt Bible translators to include footnotes that preserve alternative possibilities. Sometimes no alternative is …

1 month ago

Deut. 24; Psalms 114-115; Isaiah 51; Revelation 21

It is striking how the Mosaic Law provides for the poor.

Consider Deuteronomy 24. Here God forbids taking a pair of millstones, or “even the upper on…

1 month ago

Deut. 23; Psalms 112 — 113; Isaiah 50; Revelation 20

Every so often in the Pentateuch there is a chapter of miscellaneous laws and statutes. One such is Deuteronomy 23. It goes beyond these brief medita…

1 month ago

Deut. 22; Psalms 110–111; Isaiah 49; Revelation 19

The Old Testament chapter quoted most often in the New Testament is Psalm 110. It is an oracular psalm: i.e., it does not so much disclose the experi…

1 month ago

Deut. 21; Psalms 108-109; Isaiah 48; Revelation 18

Psalm 108 is rather distinctive in the book of Psalms. Apart from minor changes, it is made up of parts of two other psalms. Psalm 108:1-5 follows Ps…

1 month ago

Deut. 20; Psalm 107; Isaiah 47; Revelation 17

Historically revival referred to a time of God-sent blessing beyond the ordinary. Ministers of the Word went about their work, praying, preaching, ca…

1 month ago

Deut. 19; Psalm 106; Isaiah 46; Revelation 16

The justice envisaged in Deuteronomy 19 seems to stand a considerable distance from the views that prevail in Western nations today.

With part of thi…

1 month ago

Deut. 18; Psalm 105; Isaiah 45; Revelation 15

The prophecy of the coming of a prophet like Moses (Deut. 18:15-18) must first of all be understood within its own context. Four observations bring t…

1 month, 1 week ago