With Appreciation…Here’s My First Post

First, I would like to thank the guys here at Expository Thoughts for the privilege of being associated with them.

Second, Paul, I hope that the series I’m planning does not interfere with any plans you have for posts based upon your DMin intensive.

Third, I would like to make my initial contribution to Expository Thoughts a series of posts interacting with the recent book, Preaching the Old Testament (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2006). This work, written in honor of Walter C. Kaiser Jr., is a series of essays by some major scholars of our day, who have at some point crossed paths with Kaiser. The brevity of each chapter provides a fitting starting point for some good interaction on this subject. Lord willing, my comments, both laudatory and critical, will be helpful to our readers as we all labor to preach the First Testament effectively and appropriately.

My first post should come in the next day or so, but to whet your appetite, here’s a quote from the foreword by Haddon Robinson:

[R]educing the Old Testament to an anthology of illustrations for sermons based on the Gospels or the Epistles slights the Old Testament authors who were theologians in their own right. They were skilled authors who conveyed God’s message through such genres as story, proverb, and poetry, and their messages had their own purposes, but certainly they did not write to provide illustrations for other biblical writers (p. 14).