Personal Adoption Experience and Appreciation for Ethiopian Culture

Listen in as David Schrock and Trent Hunter interview Stephen Wellum about his longform essay "What Should Christians Think About the Nation of Israel Today?"

Timestamps

• Intro - 00:36
• Dr. Wellum’s Time in Ethiopia - 02:56
• Trent Hunter’s Connection to Ethiopia - 4:46
• What Does Ethiopia Have to Do With Israel? - 6:50
• Isaiah, Israel, and the Nations: Thinking Through Scripturally - 8:43
• Thinking Through the Turning Points of Israel in the Scriptures - 16:53
• Applying Psalm 122 to Today - 22:22
• What is a Nation? - 33:34
• How Much Do Christians Need to Recover a Biblical a Sense of Nationhood? - 37:25
• What Should We Be Thinking About in Terms of ‘Just War Theory?’ - 47:44
• Would We Have a Different Conversation if We Were in a Different Nation? - 50:42
• How Do We Understand the Ethnic Diaspora of Israel Throughout the World? - 53:37
• Outro - 57:56

Resources to Click

• “What Should Christians Think about the Nation of Israel Today?” – Stephen J. Wellum
• “Praying for the Peace of Israel: A Theological Proposal and Prayer” – Trent Hunter
• “Four Keys to Reading (and Teaching) the Psalms” – David Schrock
• “Reformation and Re-Embracement: A Brief History of the Puritan Hope for Israel” - Steve Atkinson
• “A Biblical and Theological Perspective of National Israel” – Brent Parker
• Theme: A Biblical View of National Israel – Christ Over All
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Books to Read

• Progressive Covenantalism: Charting a Course between Dispensational and Covenantal Theologies – ed. Brent Parker and Stephen J. Wellum
• Kingdom Through Covenant: A Biblical-Theological Understanding of the Covenants (2nd Ed.) – Peter J. Gentry & Stephen J. Wellum
• Systematic Theology Vol. 1: From Canon to Concept – Stephen J. Wellum