Level 2 - Apprentice Level 3 - Scholar From Priestly Servants to Kingly Sons – Part 1 Author Michael BullPosted on November 6, 2025November 17, 2025 A guest post by Robert Martinez “As interpreters of the Word, as with interpersonal relationships, there is the constant temptation of overstanding instead of understanding; of mastery over submission;...
Level 3 - Scholar Psalm 23: The Song of Conquerors Author Michael BullPosted on June 11, 2021June 11, 2021 The psalm’s careful Mosaic structure reveals its comforts to be the spoils of conquest. In contrast to David’s songs of complaint, Psalm 23 is...
Level 3 - Scholar Level 4 - Expert David, Goliath, and the Body of Moses Author Michael BullPosted on July 31, 2019September 6, 2019 In the Bible, all the world is a stage, but like the Tabernacle, that stage moves around a lot. David’s defeat of Goliath can...
Level 4 - Expert The Lamb and the Lion: Psalm 63 Author Michael BullPosted on September 18, 2017December 9, 2018 In Psalm 63, David the minstrel king likens himself to Israel, and his sufferings and hope not only take on the form of his...
Level 4 - Expert A Troubling Spirit Author Michael BullPosted on April 30, 2017March 29, 2018 The Lord judged and rejected Saul, and then withdrew His Spirit from him. Then the Lord sent His Spirit to comfort Saul – in David.
Level 3 - Scholar Psalm 8: How Noble is Your Name Author Michael BullPosted on February 25, 2017March 29, 2018 The Covenant-literary shape of Psalm 8 allows David to make allusions to some surprising parts of the Torah as well as predicting the Temple...
Level 4 - Expert Psalm 110: Heads Will Roll Author Michael BullPosted on September 21, 2016November 26, 2018 Psalm 110 is one of the two most frequently quoted Psalms in the New Testament, yet its purpose and content remain mysterious unless we...
Level 3 - Scholar The Missing Lamb Author Michael BullPosted on April 17, 2016January 28, 2022 When the prophet Nathan told David of a rich man who had stolen and killed a poor man’s sheep (2 Samuel 12), David’s judgment...
Level 3 - Scholar Where Judgment Begins Author Michael BullPosted on March 28, 2016February 15, 2021 Psalm 82 begins with the Lord in his “house of lords,” but He is there because they have been doing what is right in their...
Level 4 - Expert Psalm 19 Author Michael BullPosted on March 22, 2016March 22, 2016 This psalm of David is so well-known that parsing its Covenant-literary structure is like seeing an old friend in a new light.
