• Let’s Talk about Covenants

    A friend recently posed a good question that went something like this: “It seems like we keep some laws from the Old Testament, but not others. How do we know what to keep?” While this weighty question extends far beyond a discussion of covenants, I did start thinking about the various covenants in the Old…

  • Root of David/Shoot from the Stump of Jesse

    Revelation uses this name for Jesus in chapters 5 and 22. In Rev 5:5, one of the elders around the heavenly throne tells John not to weep, because “the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.”1 In Rev 22:16,…