The College Park Blog
May 3, 2013
Author: Jeff Ballard // Category: Theology
In a previous post, I shared how in Luke 24 Jesus began teaching me how to read the Old Testament the way it was meant to be read – as ultimately pointing to him. Learning how to read the Old Testament is an important – and ...
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Tags: hermeneutics, old testament
January 11, 2013
Author: Jeff Ballard // Category: Theology
In his opening sermon on Exodus, Pastor Mark declared this as the message of the Book of Exodus: “Exodus displays the God who delivers his people and dwells among them.” We are, in my opinion, more familiar with God as one who delivers, ...
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Tags: biblical theology
November 9, 2012
Author: Jeff Ballard // Category: Theology
We live in a broken world. Unless you have your head buried in the sand, it is undeniable that there are massive needs all around us. Our families are broken, our neighborhoods are broken, our city is broken, the United States is broken, and the ...
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Tags: social justice, mission
October 19, 2012
Author: Jeff Ballard // Category: Theology
Eschatology, the study of end times, is one of those areas many Christians try to avoid. In this post we want to lay out just three reasons of why studing eschatology is of benefit to the Christian.
1. Eschatology spurs us on to ...
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Tags: theology, eschatology
September 21, 2012
Author: Jeff Ballard // Category: Theology
I have a confession to make. For a significant time after my conversion at the age of nineteen, I ignored the Old Testament. Every year I made the resolution to read through the Bible only to get bogged down in Leviticus and give up. I tried, I ...
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Tags: hermeneutics, theology