The Character of Virtue
Put simply, Peter’s description in 2 Peter 1:3-8 makes for a traceable account of the Christian life. It helps us understand how faith remains an enduring...
Photography: January 1, 2025
Below is a sample of photography that has recently been uploaded to the website. Click any one image to view it and the other photographs in a… The post...
The Character of a Prophet’s Speech as Divine Testimony
In both cases, the word fear is used in connection to Israel’s disposition: Israel was to fear the LORD and not fear the gods of the Amorites. The post The...
The Scripture’s Account of Gideon: Preliminary Considerations
It is true that [the preacher] must highlight the historical and practical significance that describes and prescribes human obligation; but most...
Photography: November 1, 2024
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Smashing the Kingdom of Jove
"[T]he error of Classicism may be summarily described as a failure to identify the true source of power and, therewith, its true character and conditions."...
The Time & Space Between Faith & Love
This is how redemption mimics the original creation: What begins in the act of God as an instance of creation—a man’s new birth, much as a germinated...
Awareness & our Earliest and Natural Obligations of Love
Awareness, then, eventually and increasingly admits to the world as it is, that we might act within it as we are required. From its vantage point is a near...
Photograph: A Tea Garden in Ilam, Nepal
The photograph of a tea garden in east Nepal, seen above, is part of a small collection of photographs that I have added to the website. The post Photograph:...
The Dharmaśāstras: The Reordering of the World, One More Time
To say, as the Dharmaśāstras do, that some people know dharma is to also say that others do not. There is, then, not only a stated purpose to the...
Redemption: The Purchase of a Postscript
Our ways, which are reflective and cursory, contrast to the way that God declares his purposes in promises, and then binds himself to their fulfillment in...
Redemption: Renegotiating the Value of Creation
If Israel would be delivered from Egypt at all, it would be at God’s initiative. Israel’s new life, then, must wholly subsist in the kind and quality of life...
How Christ’s Toil Made Light Work
In the end, the LORD made affliction to become a servant to Israel’s flourishing. This, in fact, predicts the gospel: The curse would not prevent God’s...
Reading the Old Testament by the New (& the New by the Old)
The Pentecost feast found its expected celebration in the usual sequence of Jewish festival days that became part of the Jewish calendar in connection with...
An Ironic, Apprehensible Summary of a Problem
“We are far too easily pleased.” The post An Ironic, Apprehensible Summary of a Problem appeared first on East of Everest.
A Brief Note on the Jewish Feasts
Each of the feasts were to be annually observed as a reminder of God’s deliverance of Israel from Egypt to the land of promise. One feast, though, was never...
Moral Awareness: Caught up in the Middle of Things
"It would be nice to test the ground of morality before we step on it. But to all such proposals there is one inevitable reply: they come too late." The post...
When Facts are Crowned with Meaning
The meaning of scripture, in this way, is the gift of God to the questions that he, himself, excites in man. This is illustrated on Pentecost day, in the...
Temptation, Patience & the Gift of God’s Time
Only faith may so work in the presence of temptation to produce what temptation sought to destroy—virtue. This is the irony of James’ admonition. The post...
Life’s Rhythms & the Telling of Time
Time, then, becomes something more to us than the measured span of what we do. There is also the frightening contemplation of what is not done: tasks...