The Transfiguration: An Introductionhttps://txtandcontxt.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/transfiguration-of-christ-iconography-painting-church-orthodox-religion-christianity-cyprus-paralimni-ayia-triada-church-1369662-1197553961-695x1024.jpg6951024Andrew HicksAndrew Hickshttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ef5ac5236d3c82471d0638de37a90fc9?s=96&d=mm&r=g
The Explicit Accounts The Transfiguration is a key event in the life of Jesus Christ. The scene is recounted explicitly only in the Synoptic gospels (i.e. Matthew, Mark, and Luke,…
The One Gospel of Jesus Christ and the Four-Fold Gospel Traditionhttps://txtandcontxt.com/wp-content/themes/blade/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg150150Andrew HicksAndrew Hickshttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ef5ac5236d3c82471d0638de37a90fc9?s=96&d=mm&r=g
How many gospels are there? Some will answer with a tone of caution: “One…” nervous that this is a trick question. Others will answer with great certainty: “Four!” And still…
One of the things we most often do when we gather together as believers is sing. One of the primary things that can attract or turn-off someone to joining a…
The Torah of Torahs: A Proposed Biblical Theological Typologyhttps://txtandcontxt.com/wp-content/themes/blade/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg150150Andrew HicksAndrew Hickshttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ef5ac5236d3c82471d0638de37a90fc9?s=96&d=mm&r=g
The importance of 5 has long been appreciated in Biblical studies as a potentially significant typological number. The source of the 5 from which any typological reflection is, of course,…
The Kingdom of God: An Introductionhttps://txtandcontxt.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/joshua-lanzarini-Vct0oBHNmv4-unsplash-1024x683.jpg1024683Andrew HicksAndrew Hickshttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ef5ac5236d3c82471d0638de37a90fc9?s=96&d=mm&r=g
There are few concepts more central to the preaching of Jesus than the Kingdom of God. Sadly, however, this concept does not receive an equal amount of attention from Jesus’s…
The Ascension: An Introductionhttps://txtandcontxt.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/sky-414199_1920-1024x683.jpg1024683Andrew HicksAndrew Hickshttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ef5ac5236d3c82471d0638de37a90fc9?s=96&d=mm&r=g
The ascension is at best forgettable for most people in the church today. It seems for most people the ascension is merely a brief introduction to the more familiar stories…