Gary Springer

“From Promise to Presence” Walter Kaiser Jr. is doing something pastoral with that paragraph that most charts of Revelation miss. He is saying that the book is not, at its center, about events. It is about a Person. The throne scene in chapters four and five is not a passage to flip past on the

“Leaven in the Loaf” Walter Kaiser Jr. is putting a name on the tension every believer lives inside. Now / not yet. The children of God designation is already true. The fullness of what we will be is not yet revealed. Both are equally real. The same phenomenon, Kaiser says, that the prophets spoke about

“The Provision Precedes the Assignment” Walter Kaiser Jr. is naming something that we tend to flatten in modern reading. Peter says we participate in the divine nature. Kaiser will not let that phrase be sentimentalized into self-improvement or expanded into something it does not mean. We do not become little gods. We are not divinized.

“Feed My Sheep” Walter Kaiser Jr. is reading Peter the way Peter wanted to be read. The believers receiving this letter were not a project. They were not on probation. They were a new building — not the old house of deniers– being built into a spiritual house, being made into a holy priesthood. The

“He Has Spoken in His Son” Walter Kaiser Jr. is naming the move that makes Hebrews work. Thirty-five direct Old Testament quotations. Fourteen uses of promise — more than any other New Testament book. The author is not throwing away the Hebrew Scriptures to make room for the Son. He is showing that the Hebrew

“They Are Still in the Sky” Walter Kaiser Jr. used to say it in lectures with a half-smile. I checked before I came in. They are still in the sky. The stars, he meant. Yeshua said it Himself — until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen,

“He Is Coming With a Shout” Walter Kaiser Jr. is making a quiet move there that you can miss if you go too fast. Paul is not coining new language for the Thessalonians. He is reaching back into Joel and Zephaniah and pulling forward a phrase the prophets had been using for centuries — the

“Received, Therefore Walk” Stop and feel what Paul is saying. The eternal plan was not to send you a message about God. The eternal plan was to put God inside you. Every other religion offers a path toward the divine. The gospel announces a divine residence already taken up in human chests. The Colossians, in

“Not Something to Be Grasped” Messiah did not grasp. That is the engine of the whole letter. He had every right to insist on the position He held with the Father, and He chose not to insist. He had every right to refuse the cross, and He chose not to refuse it. The hymn does