"AxeHead" Tagged Sermons
Three Old Testament stories converge here to shed light on the floating axe head, held together by De Graaf’s three-point approach and the movement of the sons of the prophets. The tree that sweetens bitter water in Exodus 15 is the same tree Christ hung on.
Conservative commentary has grown thin, a gap answered here by De Graaf’s grammatical-historical method as a corrective. Read that way, the floating axe head becomes a mirror: we are the ones who have lost it.
A borrowed axe head sinking in the Jordan sets up a direct challenge to liberal commentators who explain away Scripture’s miracles. Robinson’s approach comes in for direct criticism, and the plain claim stands: biblical miracles are supernatural, not embarrassments to be managed.