Chapter three is perhaps the most succinct vision of biblical symbolism in TNE. In this chapter, James B. Jordan elaborates on the primary and secondary symbols of the Bible but then focuses attention on the three special symbols that God uses to communicate himself to his people. This is the rosetta stone of chapters on symbolism, and it's hard to grasp the rest of the book without this gem.

I offer my observations as a participant in the National Conservatism Conference in Miami, Fl. The #natcon was a considerable success primarily because of the Protestant conservative voices. This episode summarizes the three days of lectures and fellowship and is also a bit of a case for why such movements need to blossom. This is my subtle attempt to bring Moscow, ID, Theopolis, and #natcon together.

Resources:

Prayer at #natcon 2022 by Rev. Uriesou Brito

Ten Theses of Ecclesiastical Conservatism

TALKS AT NATCON:

Florida is a model for America by Gov. DeSantis

Your God Will Have Been Supplanted by an Idol by Dr. Al Mohler

The Tao in America: The Abolition of Man and the Culture War by Dr. Joe Rigney

How Pastors are Compromising the Gospel to Appease the Left by Megan Basham

A Christian Case for an 'America First' Government by William Wolfe

My 11-year-old son is a voracious reader. His community stirs him to absorb good literature and cherish good things. In some ways, I am still playing catch up with my reading world. But I am grateful that he carries a love of learning. In this episode, I asked him to start us off with a review of a massive biography of George Washington by the president of Westminster Theological Seminary, Peter Lillback. I hope his brief review offers enough of a sample of this great apologia for Washington's Christian beliefs.

We then delve rather quickly into the overview of chapter two of James B. Jordan's masterpiece, Through New Eyes. The second chapter focuses on man's role in creation, the role of creation in illuminating man in his role, and how to understand God properly in his creation.

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In this episode, I read an essay that I wrote in the last edition of the "Fight, Laugh, Feast" edition. My essay is entitled: "Culture Wars and the Land God Promised." I argue that the church needs to be prepared to fight the greater battles to win the lesser ones. Further, I offer five suggestions as the Church in conservative states begins to receive folks from leftist parts of the country.

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I do not believe there has been a more theologically impactful book on the interpretive biblical sphere than James B. Jordan's "Through New Eyes: Developing a Biblical View of the World." This book has shaped much of my own thinking, and it has forced me to see and develop a more biblicized approach to the Bible itself. The reason I say "forced" is because at times, it is easier to bring foreign hermeneutics into the text to explain basic concepts. But the Bible contains its own hermeneutics as well as its own language.

My goal through these podcasts is to offer an overview of James Jordan's TNE and some additional insights to build a healthy interpretive guide to biblical passages.

This episode covers chapter one, which focuses on the following:

a) The necessity of understanding Genesis 1 & 2 as a paradigm for reading the rest of the Scriptures.

b) The importance of a six-day creation hermeneutic

c) The case against the Framework hypothesis

d) Reading biblically means associating the Bible with the Bible

e) The need to return to Psalm-singing

f) Five rules for interpretation

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This is the first of many podcasts offering an overview of Through New Eyes by James B. Jordan. In this episode, we discuss the nature of symbols and types and how creational language serves as patterns throughout the Scriptures. This is a quick-and-dirty intro to stir your appetite for more content.

My Interview with Canon Calls on "Who is James B. Jordan" is here.

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This is a follow-up episode to the primer on food. These ten delicious minutes communicate the three purposes of food: a) Dependence, b) Dominion, and Divine Worship. I argue, among other things, that the eucharist is not an appendix to our worship, it is the response to our worship. Christians are theological gastronomers. Further, I make the point that only Christians have the intellectual and emotional capacity to consume with true gratitude. So, pour a glass of wine and listen with your mouths.

In seven minutes, I discuss the role of food in the creation account and I try to lay an outline for a future episode on the purpose of food for Christian consumption. This should be a quick meal, but a delicious primer.

Music theme: Wake Up

by George Reed

Gary Demar is one of those iconic figures in the eschatological world. He has been writing, debating, and persuading for almost 40 years. He has a host of interests, but the one that has garnered the most attention is his sophisticated, yet, simple approach to eschatology. Gary holds to a position called "preterism," which affirms that most prophesy in the New Testament was speaking to something that would take place within that generation and not some futuristic generation divorced from that present context.

Gary Demar was also a close friend of Gary North, who passed away a month ago. They both attended the same congregation and cooperated on numerous efforts for over four decades. We spoke about the Gary North legacy and how North impacted Demar's discipline.

For those interested in an overview of the preterist debates and the life of the inimitable Gary North, there is no person more equipped than Gary Demar.

In this episode, I argue against weird Christendom. This expression adds strange practices to their lives in order to show their different-ness from others in the Christian community. It's a form of exalted separationism. The case against weird Christendom can only find a solution in mere Christendom: mere creeds, mere lives, mere wine, and mere merriment.

P.S. I play a rendition of "religious man." Please leave tips.

"Wake Up" Intro and Outro music by George Reed