Ninth Sunday after Pentecost

‘The human dimensions of the Old Testament are to be duly appreciated, but it is supremely important that we understand in faith the Old Testament’s claim that God is its primary author. If we do, we will see the Old Testament as more than an anthology of various types of literature produced by a series of author across a span of centuries. We will understand that it all issued ultimately from the throne room of Israel’s heavenly King and that all its literary forms possess a functional unity as instruments of Yahweh’s ongoing covenantal oversight of the conduct and faith of his vassal people.’


- Meredith Kline




‘Scripture … is God speaking to man. It means a word that is not past but present, because eternal, a word spoken to me personally and not simply to others.’


- Hans Urs von Balthasar




‘”Our God comes, he does not keep silence” (Psalm 50,3). … God can only be God for us because God is not silent. A speechless God is not God in the sense of the Bible.’


- Wolf Krötke