Based on the book by J. Scott Duvall and J. Daniel Hays. (2019). God’s Relational Presence:
The Cohesive Center of Biblical Theology
I’ve been thinking about the story of the Exodus in Scripture. It has these main parts: God delivered His people. God delivered HIs people from slavery, from bondage. God delivered His people to a chosen status, sonship, a treasured possession. God delivered His people through the obedience of a man (Moses). God delivered His people…
In my Bible study this week, I noted a repeated refrain, a significant theme that needs repeating! God chooses us to be HIS people, to dwell among us, to be our GOD! Then this morning, Ann Voskamp’s Facebook post reiterated the theme in a beautifully poetic way. Notice what God says over and over ……
In our theology cohort with our church we are reading J. Scott Duvall and J. Daniel Hays. (2019). God’s Relational Presence: The Cohesive Center of Biblical Theology. The theme of the book is that the one thread that ties the whole story of scripture together is the idea of God’s relational presence, the key phrase…
I’m reading, thinking about the book of Chronicles. It was written after the exile, reviewing the history of Judah to remind the new generation that they have a powerful God, that He would be the one who would help them rebuild. There are several themes illustrated in Chronicles. A prominent theme is the significance of…
I’ve been processing my notes from our theology cohort in my blog. We are reading God’s Relational Presence by Duvall and Hays. The authors propose that the main thread in scripture is how God relates to His creation and that all other themes connect to this primary idea. As we work through the book, our…
Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness, so they may rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move on the earth.” God created humankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them,…