Randall Johnson

Lessons From the Old Testament: The Reason For the Tabernacle

The LORD said to Moses,”Tell the Israelites to bring me an offering. You are to receive the offering for me from each man whose heart prompts him to give. Then have them make a sanctuary for me,

Lessons From the Old Testament: What is the purpose of the Law?

Then Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain and said, “This is what you are to say to the house of Jacob and what you are to tell the people of Israel: ‘You yourselves

Lessons From the Old Testament: God Tells Us His Name

Is God above having a personal name? Isn’t He too great to have a moniker other than the generic title God or Lord? He certainly didn’t have a parent to give Him a name. But God is all about

Lessons From the Old Testament: God’s Judgment

Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. So God said to Noah, “I am

Lessons From the Old Testament: Total Depravity

The LORD saw how great man’s wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time. (Genesis 6:5) Where does the Old Testament stand

Lessons From the Old Testament: The Case for Monogamy

Lamech married two women, one named Adah and the other Zillah. Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah, listen to me; wives of Lamech, hear my words. I have killed a man for wounding me, a young

Lessons From the Old Testament: The Conflict of the Ages

Genesis 4 recounts the murder of Abel by his brother Cain. What God promised in Genesis 3:15 (“I will put enmity between you, serpent, and the woman, and between your seed and her seed”)

Lessons From the Old Testament: The Two-Fold Means of Salvation

In Genesis 3:15 God promises to defeat the Tempter, Satan, through an offspring of the woman, Eve, as a means of restoring the lost Garden of Eden, God’s Kingdom. We are not told what the conflict

Lessons From the Old Testament: The Need for Futility

To the woman he said, “I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.” To

Lessons From the Old Testament: The Power of a Promise

So the LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, Cursed are you above all the livestock and all the wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days

Lessons From the Old Testament: The Origin of Human Conflict

Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves. Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD

Lessons From the Old Testament: What Satan Wants For Us

Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” The

Lessons From the Old Testament: What God Wants For Us

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth

Lessons from the Old Testament

The next several articles in this blog will be devoted to key lessons derived from a broad study of the Old Testament. This means that I will be looking at the big picture of the Old Testament, the major

No More Mind Games

Christian Mission theology
/ By Randall Johnson

Paul tells us in Romans 12:2 not to be “conformed to this world” but to be “transformed by the renewing of your mind.” How did Paul intend that we do that? Well, he has spent

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