Meeting Jesus at an Old Testament Feast by John R. Sittema

FROM TABLETALK | April 2011

The default sin of the human heart is to put ourselves first. “It really is all about me!” was once a funny t-shirt slogan; it has now become a way of life. Unless preachers and Bible teachers are careful, the …Read More

An Epic in the Making by Gene Edward Veith

FROM TABLETALK | December 2008

The theme of this month’s Tabletalk is Paradise Lost, which is the title of what most critics would agree is the greatest poem in the English language. John Milton was an English puritan revolutionary who helped overthrow King Charles …Read More

The Reluctant Prophet by Steve Kreloff

FROM TABLETALK | February 2008

Anyone who has ever attended a Sunday school class knows that Jonah was the man who was eaten alive by a fish and then vomited out three days later. But that’s about the extent of most people’s understanding …Read More

Paradise Lost by David VanDrunen

FROM TABLETALK | December 2008

In the second chapter of Hebrews, the author notes that God did not appoint angels, but human beings, to rule the world to come (v. 5), and he quotes Psalm 8 to prove it: “You made him for a little …Read More

Covenant Prosecutors by R.C. Sproul

FROM TABLETALK | February 2008

I don’t remember the exact words. They went something like this: “He was a thundering paradox of a man.” These words served as the opening lines of William Manchester’s classic biography of General Douglas MacArthur. In this work …Read More

The Prophets by Bryan Estelle

FROM TABLETALK | February 2008

The post-exilic prophets include Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi, and probably Joel. They convey the message of God for this period of time with cumulative clarity since they come at the end of a long age of prophetic indictment against the people …Read More

The Prophets by Alec Motyer

FROM TABLETALK | February 2008

We do ourselves no favors by calling the first part of our Bibles the “Old Testament.” Why, the very title suggests something bygone! Of course, we are too far down the road to discard this description, but we need constantly …Read More

Family Covenant by John Duncan

FROM TABLETALK | January 2007

What if you had an angel involved in the arrangement of your marriage or your children’s marriage, wouldn’t that be amazing? If you’re a believer, you actually do; the “Angel of the Lord” Himself. In Genesis …Read More

The Heart Restored by Burk Parsons

FROM TABLETALK | February 2006

As we consider the history of God’s people in the Old Testament, we do not observe a people who served the Lord faithfully. The people of Israel did not demonstrate their love for God with all their hearts. Even …Read More

Christ in the Old Testament by Keith Mathison

FROM TABLETALK | September 2009

  The relationship between the Mosaic covenant and the new covenant remains one of the most controversial and difficult topics in theology. As the notable American theologian Jonathan Edwards said, “There is perhaps no part of divinity attended with so much …Read More

The Second World War by R.C. Sproul Jr.

FROM TABLETALK | March 2010

It is natural, though altogether wrong, to think that somehow when we turn the pages that separate the Old and New Testaments that we are entering into more gentle times, that God in the interim somehow became kinder and gentler …Read More

Why the Old Testament? by Iain Campbell

FROM TABLETALK | January 2010

B.B. Warfield famously described the Old Testament as a room “fully furnished but dimly lit.” By that he meant that all the fundamental elements of the gospel were revealed in the Old Testament but awaited the coming of Jesus …Read More

At Many Times; In Many Ways by Keith Mathison

FROM TABLETALK | February 2008

It is probably not an exaggeration to say that most Christians have little difficulty reading the Five Books of Moses and the Historical Books of the Old Testament. Sure, we may scratch our heads in puzzlement while reading certain sections …Read More

That the Scriptures Might Be Fulfilled by John Piper

FROM TABLETALK | October 2011

The glory of Jesus Christ shines more clearly when we see Him in His proper relation to the Old Testament. He has a magnificent relation to all that was written. It is not surprising that this is the case, because …Read More

Jesus and the Psalms by L. Michael Morales

FROM TABLETALK | April 2011

The Writings