“If Christ is the key to human history, the Old Testament carefully describes the lock. If Christ is the climax of the story, the Old Testament sets the stage and begins the plot. Do you read just the endings of books? If the New Testament presents God’s promises kept, the Old Testament tells us about God’s promises made. In other words, if you don’t get what the Old Testament teaches, you’ll never get Christ.”
–Mark Dever
Sermon for this Sunday: Promises Made, Promises Kept
“I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it. Their faithful Friend and Servant, C. D. December, 1843.”
– Charles Dickens’ original preface to A Christmas Carol
