Thankful Thursday

Busy day with little granddaughter, busy evening at choir practice. Tonight the choir was preparing for an evening gospel music service at end of May. (We are, by the way, singing this arrangement of these songs again.) Nothing uses more concentration and energy than learning and singing gospel music, so I’m beat—but thankful, too. Thankful that I have energy for full days and that I can finish them singing.

The granddaughter I spent the day with is turning two in a few days. When her auntie asked her what she wanted for her birthday, she said, “Money!” I’m thankful for the laughs the grandchildren bring. Currently, there are a few frustrating circumstances and people in my life, and I need the joy of grandchildren.

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Three Features of Typology

I’m posting this, first, because it’s good, and second, because I want to link to it from the theological term page for typology. It’s taken from Stephen J. Wellum’s chapter on The New Covenant Work of Christ in From Heaven He Came and Sought Her: Definite Atonement in Historical, Biblical, Theological, and Pastoral Perspective. This was originally one longish paragraph which I’ve reformatted as an ordered list.

1. [T]ypology is symbolism rooted in historical-textual realities. As such, it involves an organic relation between “persons, events, and institutions” (i.e., the type) in one epoch of redemptive history and their counterparts in later epochs (i.e., the antitype).

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Theological Term of the Week

Pentateuch
The first five books of the Old Testament, i.e., Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy; also known as the Torah, the Law, or the Books of Moses.

• From scripture, the theme of the Pentateuch:1 

Now the LORD said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” (Genesis 12:1-3 ESV)

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