On-Line Article (s) I Read Today, XIV

Sheriff’s office: 911 came from Wood’s House

“An adult patient was taken to Health Central Hospital in Ocoee, the same place Woods was treated after he crashed his sport utility vehicle outside his home last month, fire rescue spokeswoman Genevieve Latham said. The patient’s condition was not immediately known.”

Preliminary Thoughts on Envy and the Jews by Doug Wilson

“… this means that cultural achievement and blessing, far from being a distraction from the gospel, is a necessary adjunct to the gospel. “Here, think these thoughts about Jesus in your head” is not the kind of thing that will make the Jews think long and hard about the blessings and curses of Deuteronomy.”

Locusts and Honey by Peter Leithart

“Putting all these considerations together, it seems that John’s diet indeed symbolized his role in redemptive history. Luke informs us that John gave counsel to what we can assume are Gentile soldiers (3:14), thereby “eating” the soldiers into the kingdom. And, it seems that John’s diet is a part of the Elijah typology by which the NT explicates John’s ministry. Elijah’s ministry was full of contacts with Gentiles, and was a foreshadowing of the coming of a new Israel; John’s ministry marks the beginning of the fulfillment of that type, the beginning of a new Israel in which there is neither Jew nor Greek.”