Biblical hermeneutics
237Peter's Pattern for Preaching - Part 2
11 May 2026
15:32¶ 45
“The better pattern is the New Testament interprets the Old. So we go to the explicit statements of the New Testament just to make…”
15:56¶ 46
“Clear passages govern unclear passages.”
15:59¶ 47
“Yes. This is basic hermeneutics and anybody should know this. We should be looking for things the New Testament already has told us, and…”
236Peter's Pattern for Preaching - Part 1
13 Apr 2026
26:01¶ 81
“We’re dealing with a basic hermeneutic issue of interpreting the new in the light of the old, or the old in light of the…”
26:54¶ 85
“No, that’s not what those passages mean. When he speaks here of all of God’s servants prophesying, certainly it doesn’t mean less than what…”
27:19¶ 86
“We point at pictures in books for kindergartners and say, “Doggy. Kitty. Woof woof. Meow meow,” and you know what? That’s not a dog.…”
164Holiness to the Lord
12 Jun 2023
17:53¶ 51
“This is a fundamental rule of hermeneutics that some people don’t get. One way of approaching hermeneutics – how to interpret scripture – is…”
18:20¶ 53
“Yeah, it’s written for the covenant community, and you need to listen to what other people have heard and seen and believed and read.…”
18:46¶ 54
“We need to read the Bible. We need to read it in order. We need to let the Bible develop its own ideas and…”
30Repairing the Timeline
26 Jul 2020
31:56¶ 116
“Yeah, and there’s a difference between saying, “None of this is historical. It’s all some kind of literary rearranging of concepts that has no…”
32:22¶ 117
“A hermeneutical argument can simply be an exegetical argument. “Let’s look and see what the Bible says about these numbers,” and as long as…”
44:59¶ 149
“So we’re back to hermeneutics, to the dangers of Gnosticism, the danger of pretending that God can’t, won’t, or doesn’t count, that he won’t…”