Category: Covenants

I Am Your Portion and Your Inheritance

While read­ing through Joshua recently I came upon a pas­sage that caught my atten­tion. Joshua is a book rid­dled with the theme of God’s faith­ful­ness to his covenant promises. As the Lord leads Joshua and the Israelites across the Jor­dan and they con­quer the land promised to them Joshua begins to divvy the land amongst the tribes. When […]

The Sabbath Today

I never gave much thought that the Sab­bath is a bind­ing require­ment in the New Covenant era until I started attend­ing my cur­rent church. They hold a Sab­batar­ian posi­tion which says that the Sab­bath is a per­pet­ual ordi­nance for God’s peo­ple from the cre­ation of the earth to the new heav­ens and new earth. The posi­tion is largely found […]

Does the Church Replace Israel?

In my recent arti­cle con­trast­ing Dis­pen­sa­tion­al­ism (DP) and Covenant The­ol­ogy (CT), I attempted to pro­vide a look at both sys­tems from an unbi­ased per­spec­tive. Obvi­ously, it’s dif­fi­cult when you feel strongly towards either side. There was a point that I didn’t hit that I should have (Amanda reminded me). It has to with how CT views the rela­tion of Israel […]