Review: The Words of the Covenant, Volume 1

This is a review of the book The Words of the Covenant: A Biblical Theology Volume 1 – Old Testament Expectation, by Dr. Paul Martin Henebury, published by Xulon Press Elite (Paperback 467 Pages).

Some Background

I came across Paul Henebury many years ago through his blog “Dr. Reluctant.” He refers to himself as “A Reluctant Dispensationalist.” To find out why, you’ll have to look it up for yourself. One of the things he states is that,

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What Do I Owe My Aging Parents? Review: ‘Honoring Dependent Parents’ by Bill Davis

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“There’s no cookie-cutter approach to honoring aging parents. Most senior citizens say they’d like to stay in their own home as they age. When family members live nearby, simply picking up groceries and cutting the lawn may be all that’s needed. But the financial and logistical challenges increase as distance grows.” - TGC

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The Many Faces of Anti-Semitism

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“A new book explores the shape-shifting nature of anti-Semitism through the centuries. What can we learn from the past as this virulent hatred recurs today among right and left forces alike?” - Acton

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What Pastors Need to Recover About Mental Health – Review: ‘Seeking Sanctuary, Finding Shalom’

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“Swinton, chair in divinity and religious studies at King’s College, University of Aberdeen, doesn’t merely critique therapeutic culture. He gives pastors something better—the biblical category of shalom. He offers a vision of mental health that exposes the poverty of our culture’s therapeutic assumptions and gives the church genuinely different categories for human flourishing.” - TGC

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Two Failures of Mere Christian Hermeneutics—and Five Triumphs

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“Kevin Vanhoozer, the great hermeneutician… was going to deliver to serious, believing readers of Scripture a mere Christian hermeneutics, the hallway where the various denominations and reading cultures, more on that term in a moment, who read Scripture might find some hermeneutical unity amidst our never-ending theological cacophony.” - Mark Ward

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Eat, Drink, and Be Merry

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