Bob Spots More

I have a few more good reads for you. It seems that everytime I do a Bobspotted Blogroll post, that I forget something or else I find a great new read hours after I post. I know you all are capable of browsing blogs on your own, but I like to collect things here for the benefit of any who haven’t read these jewels. And these are all so good I just had to share….

• Jesus’ Appearance to Jacob at Peniel — a phenomenal post elaborating on the implications of viewing the one Jacob fought with at Peniel as Jesus. I don’t keep up on Nathan Pitchford’s articles (he writes here and at  Monergism.Com‘s blog Reformation Theology)  like I want to; so while I was catching up, I came across this great article. It discusses the typology surrounding Jacob’s life. If you have ever had a hard time appreciating all the various plots in Jacob’s life, this post will give them a great significance. Once again the redemptive historical hermeneutical approach succeeds in giving us great food for our souls!
• Type A, B, or C? [intro] & [part 2] — Joel Tetreau (who contributes to NeoFundamentalist) is posting a series on his taxonomy of Fundamentalism over at Sharper Iron. He groups fundamentalists into essentially three categories: A, B, or C. I think his approach is helpful and will contribute toward a greater understanding of our differences and similarities. Hopefully this won’t divide fundamentalism more deeply, but rather serve to facilitate more unity! This is Joel’s goal too, I believe.
• John Piper on Rom. 16:17 — This is worth the read, or better yet listen to the sermon here. Piper discusses the “unity boys” and the “purity boys” and calls for a balanced approach which avoids the perils of hyper fundamentalism on one hand and loosey-goosey evangelicalism on the other. And he gives a great exegesis of this important verse.
• Douglas Wilson responds to the  popular new book  Letter to  a Christian Nation — Doug writes starts his own series of letters responding to Sam Harris with this post (HT: Justin Taylor). Douglas Wilson  is always worth reading.