by Doug Van Meter | 18 Sep 2011 | Bible Teachings, Exodus, Old Testament, Pentateuch
In his insightful little book, On being a Servant of God, Warren Wiersbe relates the following little vignette. John Rutter is one of my favourite musicians. . . . My wife and I attended [one of his concerts] at which the noted composer/conductor did a strange thing....
by Doug Van Meter | 11 Sep 2011 | Bible Teachings, Exodus, Old Testament, Pentateuch
In his excellent book, The Knowledge of the Holy, A. W. Tozer wrote, “A right conception of God is basic not only to systematic theology but to practical Christian living as well. It is to worship what the foundation is to the temple; where it is inadequate or out of...
by Doug Van Meter | 4 Sep 2011 | Bible Teachings, Exodus, Old Testament, Pentateuch
By this point in our study of Exodus 32 you may feel battle weary from our intense confrontation with the subject of idolatry. We have been reminded over and over that we daily struggle with the temptation to substitute all kinds of things for God. We feel the...
by Doug Van Meter | 28 Aug 2011 | Bible Teachings, Exodus, Old Testament, Pentateuch
As we are increasingly coming to appreciate, idolatry is not limited to the worship of crass images of pagan gods. Instead, we are constantly tempted with idols in our own hearts. Pink gives a good definition of idolatry when he writes, An “idol” is anything which...
by Doug Van Meter | 21 Aug 2011 | Bible Teachings, Exodus, Old Testament, Pentateuch
Counsellor and author David Powlinson reckons that “idolatry is by far the most frequently discussed problem in the Scriptures.”1 The word “idol” and its derivatives occur some 123 times in the entire Bible, while 25 of these occurrences are found in the New...
by Doug Van Meter | 14 Aug 2011 | Bible Teachings, Exodus, Old Testament, Pentateuch
John Calvin famously said that the human heart is a “perpetual forge [factory] of idols.” It is constantly creating gods in opposition to God. Since the fall of man in Eden idolatry has been a perpetual problem. It was idolatry (the entertaining in one’s mind of a...
