![]() “All the streams of heavenly blessings converge through the one unifying sieve of this servant, the Messiah. The section on the Servant Songs in Isaiah is worth the price of the entire book. This new biblical-theological feast traces the exodus theme in Scripture around three movements: the historical exodus out of Egypt, the prophesied second exodus, and the new exodus of Jesus the Messiah. His volume on Leviticus is one of my all-time favorites. Morales writes a book about the Bible, I read it. Exodus Old and New: A Biblical Theology of Redemption / L. So will we.” ( 201-202)Ĭharles Simeon once said: “There are but two lessons for the Christian to learn: the one is, to enjoy God in everything the other is, to enjoy everything in God.” This book, my favorite book of the year, can help you do both.Ģ. The things of God will sing to the King of Kings and the God of things, for whom and through whom and to whom they exist. ‘Let the rivers clap their hands let the hills sing for joy together’ ( Ps. ‘The mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands’ ( Isa. And on that day the things of God will stop pointing and start praising. We will know fully, even as we are fully known. But the day is coming when the signposts will not be needed, because the reality is here. One of my dreams in writing this book has been that you might look around you and see reasons to worship that you hadn’t noticed before. “For now, the created order is filled with signposts. Here is what I want from a book, what I demand, what I pray for before I read the first sentence: I want everything and nothing less. By God’s grace, I found 36 fabulous books this year, and I thoroughly enjoyed every last one of them.Īll of creation is the theater of God’s glory because “the earth is the LORD’s and everything in it.” ( Psalm 24:1) In this wonderful new book, Wilson helps his readers delight in the knowledge that “everything in creation tells us something about our Creator.” (201) The world is theomorphic, that is, all things “take the form they do because they are created to reveal God.” (4) Along the way, Wilson shows the scriptural significance of dust, earthquakes, pigs, livestock, stones, galaxies, honey, mountains, rainbows, gardens, donkeys, salt, rain, water, bread, trees, viruses, clothes, light, and more. (Check out these delicious excerpts here, here, here, and here.) I hunt for fabulous books, reads that leave me reeling. ![]()
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