Saturday's Old Photo

I brought some more of my dad’s photos home to scan and now I have new incentive to resurrect the Saturday’s Old Photo posts.

This photo was taken somewhere on a trip from Minnesota to Kansas for Christmas 1974.  From left to right is my dad, my mom, my sister, me, and the young man I would later marry.

The van belonged to my future husband. We used it for the trip because it was roomy enough for all of us to ride in comfort. And it would actually have been comfortable if it’d had a better heater. Perhaps the chilly ride is the explanation for my dad’s Russian look.

I am 19 years old, the same age my youngest son is right now. Before Christmas is over, I will be engaged, and the coming June, I will be married.

My kids find that strange. They can’t imagine taking on the responsibility of marriage so young, and while we were still students. I never regretted it, even for a second. Extended adolescence, you know, is overrated.

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A Master Interpreter, a Sure-Footed Guide

Quoting from Sinclair Ferguson’s In Christ Alone again. This time I’ve chosen a quote on the book of Hebrews, because it’s my favorite book in the Bible and this is the primary reason I love it.

Hebrews reveals Christ as the key to understanding the Old Testament. Gentle reader, that is 75 percent of your Bible! Hebrews acts as a master interpreter, taking you through the pages of the Old Testament and highlighting its central message. It provides a sure-footed guide to the way in which various elements in the Old Testament combine to lead to Jesus—history, liturgy, typology, and prophecy are all woven together into a harmonious portrayal of the significance of His ministry. The whole book unfolds the statement with which it opens:

God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom he has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds.

—Hebrews 1:1-2

The Old Testament message is:

• In time past
• multifaceted revelation
  
• expressed through the prophets
• given to the fathers

The New Testament message is:

• Now, in the last days
• focused revelation
• expressed in Christ
• given to us

The two are related—as Hebrews explains—as promise and fulfillment; type and antitype; shadow and reality. They are bound together by one promise, one plan of salvation, one way of grace, one Savior. Therefore, understand Hebrews and you will be able to read the Old Testament with spectacles that will help you see how it all makes unified, glorious, Christ-centered sense.

I reviewed this book last week. I also recommend these audio sermons on the book of Hebrews by D. A. Carson.