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Teachings & Updates
Here you will find a library of Biblical teachings, as well as all Tent of Oliver project updates.
Oliver loved the Word of God with all of his being, he diligently studied it daily, and he applied it to every facet of his life. Here you will find a library of teachings penned by Oliver (Oliver's Archive), filled with insights from the Word of God for the purpose of edifying you in your walk with God.
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Dealing with Temptations
Temptations are an aberration against our purpose, our hope and goal in life. To thwart us off course toward our destination. Temptations are the misfiring of a retro rocket in our journey in life to throw us off course (as in space flight).
Oliver Hamilton
Dec 72 min read
Remembering
The word remembrance is very accurate and beautiful, yet unless we are careful, we may miss its meaning.
Oliver Hamilton
Nov 232 min read
The Book of Judges: Poetic Punishment
This is one of the books of the Bible which we must burn and fling away if we deny that God does directly, immediately, and definitely punish sin. The punishment of God is poetic.
Oliver Hamilton
Nov 92 min read
Quickening the Exhausted
Depression follows on the difficulties and disappointments of business and life. When things will not go rightly, mind and heart are very full day and night, and brooding away tends to encourage fears, and to make the dark things grow darker.
Oliver Hamilton
Oct 52 min read
Guarding Against Backsliding
The distance between yourself and the LORD matters nothing. The first cooling of passion is the tragedy. The final corruption is but a sequence to be expected; and which cannot be avoided save as the first love is restored.
Oliver Hamilton
Sep 203 min read
Observe Them Diligently: Part 3
Is it conceivable that God’s favour can rest upon a mere doing of what He requires? God accepts it as bare duty, but has no favour… no smile for him who has but that to offer.
Oliver Hamilton
Aug 311 min read
Observe Them Diligently: Part 2
Diligence is distinct from ability. And it is quite possible to trust ability and neglect diligence. But ability has nothing to do with character, and diligence has everything to do with it.
Oliver Hamilton
Aug 241 min read
Observe Them Diligently: Part 1
There are possible “obediences” that cannot be acceptable to God. The things required are done but there is no heart, and therefore no merit in the doing.
Oliver Hamilton
Aug 171 min read
Attitudes of God (Part 4): Persistence of God
David’s answer to the persistence of God was that of his perfect confidence in it. It was that confidence which made him write his penitential psalms. When we speak of David’s sin let us in all fairness speak also of his penitence.
Oliver Hamilton
Aug 102 min read
Attitudes of God (Part 3): Principle of God for His Guidance
The king who rules righteously and in the fear of God is a benediction to his people: The benediction of the rising sun in the morning, when there are no clouds.
Oliver Hamilton
Aug 41 min read
Attitudes of God (Part 2): The Power of God as Known
David was assured that God’s power was available to the fulfilment of all of God's purpose in his life.
Oliver Hamilton
Jul 271 min read
Attitudes of God (Part 1): The Purpose of God
David recognized that his appointment to kingship was divine, and poetically he described that, both as to the man upon whom the choice of God rested and the ultimate issue of the choice.
Oliver Hamilton
Jul 201 min read
What the Servant Offers You (Part 5): To Heal or Not to Heal?
The ministry of Yeshua was exercised in the face of constant opposition . The opposition is at once clearly revealed in four words of...
Oliver Hamilton
Jul 133 min read
What the Servant Offers You (Part 4): The Sanctity of Shabbat
Holiness and health are interconnected. How can we pursue a life of holiness / sacredness if our bodies are not in a healthy state? Holiness involves setting ourselves apart and consecrated to God.
Oliver Hamilton
Jul 63 min read
What the Servant Offers You (Part 3): To Fast or Not to Fast?
The ministry of Yeshua was exercised in the face of constant opposition . The opposition is at once clearly revealed in four words of...
Oliver Hamilton
Jun 292 min read
What the Servant Offers You (Part 2): Grace in the Midst of Oppression
There is no profounder proof of grace of character than that of being able to suffer wrongfully and yet to manifest a gracious spirit.
Oliver Hamilton
Jun 222 min read
What the Servant Offers You (Part 1): A Humble Spirit
It is only through those of humble spirit that God always pours out his fullness for the blessing of others.
Oliver Hamilton
Jun 153 min read
The Vine, Branches and Tendrils
The vine was ever the figure of Israel as the instrument elect for service; its fruit was and is to fill the whole earth.
Oliver Hamilton
Jun 83 min read
The Portrait of the Servant: Compassion (Part 3)
There is compassion that passes on, then there is the compassion of Yeshua.
Oliver Hamilton
Jun 12 min read
The Portrait of the Servant: Authority (Part 2)
In Mark 1:21-34, we are given an account of what the servant of God, Yeshua, did in the morning, afternoon and in the evening.
Oliver Hamilton
May 254 min read
"Dispense justice for the needy and the orphan; the poor and impoverished vindicate. Rescue the needy and destitute, and from the hand of the wicked deliver them."
Psalm 82:3-4
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