Zach’s Blog

February 2026

  • You Can’t Handle the Knowledge of Good and Evil

    [Let me admit right off the bat that I don’t presently have a compelling Biblical argument for this one. A large number of Biblical passages and principles arguably point in strongly favor of this idea being true, but I’ll admit that I don’t have a text that seems to be explicitly directing us toward understanding…

  • The Kingdom of God is an Actual Kingdom and Jesus is its Actual King

    Therefore devotion, allegiance, and/or obedience to any other political entity is a provocation unto jealousy against Him.

  • The Figural-Midrashic Hermeneutical Renaissance

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    I’m fascinated by what appears to be a renaissance in Biblical hermeneutics that has been semi-quitely underway for the last generation or so. Most of the activity has been limited to academic circles, but facets of it have begun emerging in more lay-level websites such as BibleProject, AlephBeta, and the Theopolis Institute. There are a…

  • The Unfinished Work of Christ

    A better title might have been, “The Never-To-Be Finished Work of Christ.” I glory in “the finished work of Christ” and the fact that “the cross was enough” as much as any Evangelical. Yet, like any truth, removed from their proper context those statements can become not only fallacious and harmful but indeed heretical. At…

  • The Main Thing is Missing

    As I taught my sons from the time they were young, “God’s greatest present is His Presence.” That is The Main Thing. Ezekiel closes his book by revealing the glorious name of the glorious city he just spent nine chapters describing: “Yahveh-is-There.” The last two chapters of the Christian canon likewise confirm that what makes…