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Kenneth Berding — June 15, 2022
Progressive Dispensationalism is a pattern of biblical interpretation that focuses not entirely, but most particularly on the question of how...
Kenneth Way — May 02, 2022
The wisdom literature of the Hebrew Bible is found in the five poetic books of Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs. This biblical...
Kenneth Berding — April 14, 2022
Every once in a while, I encounter a spiritually impacting paragraph while grading a term paper. Granted, this doesnt happen often, but I really...
Kenneth Berding — April 11, 2022
One Christian book has spiritually helped me more than any other book during these past four months. God has used Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy , by...
Tom Finley — April 08, 2022
This is the third post in a series on who wrote the book of Daniel. Here you can find Part 1 and Part 2 . From history, we know that Nabonidus...
Gary Manning Jr — March 24, 2022
In a previous post, Did the Apostle Paul Use Profanity?, I debunked the claim that 庥帣帢弇帢 (skubala, rubbish or waste), a word used by Paul in...
Kenneth Berding — March 15, 2022
How can James write: But no one can tame the tongue (James 3:8 NAU) in one breath, and then in another write this ought not to be so (James...
Tom Finley — March 02, 2022
This is the second post in a series on who wrote the book of Daniel. Read the first post, Who Wrote the Book of Daniel? (Part 1) and the third...
Octavio Esqueda — January 24, 2022
Integrity is the essential distinctive for a follower of Christ. Our character defines, proclaims and demonstrates our faith in a holy God to all...
Carmen Imes — January 07, 2022
I'm excited to introduce a set of resources from GlossaHouse publishers that make language learning a lot more fun: The Illustrated Hebrew Bible...
Kenneth Berding — October 29, 2021
It has become increasingly popular in recent years for teachers of the Bible (myself included) to disparage people who apply Jeremiah 29:11-13 to...
Kenneth Berding — May 05, 2021
Paul boldly and famously asserts: the love of Christ controls us (2 Cor. 5:14). But what does he mean by the love of Christ? If youre willing...
Kenneth Berding — January 28, 2020
When you read the Bible, how do you connect what you read to practical life? When you preach or teach from the Bible, how do you move from a...
Octavio Esqueda — January 16, 2020
ltimamente he escuchado con bastante frecuencia a muchos l穩deres cristianos afirmar que la fe en Cristo es lo m獺s importante de todo y que todo lo...
Octavio Esqueda — December 16, 2019
La frase Jes繳s es el Se簽or puede considerarse como el fundamento principal del cristianismo. Estas palabras indican un reconocimiento sobre la...
Kenneth Berding — June 05, 2019
When I reach for a book from my reference shelf, which books do I reach for most often? Apart from biblical commentaries, here is a list of the 20...
Octavio Esqueda — April 15, 2019
This post stems from the Kern reading group on Faith, Work and Economics at Talbot, a small group comprised of Talbot and Crowell faculty that...
Octavio Esqueda — March 20, 2019
El c獺ntico de Mar穩a conocido como el Magnificat es uno de los salmos de alabanza m獺s bellos de las Sagradas Escrituras. Este c獺ntico tiene una...
Gary Manning Jr — January 02, 2019
When you are trying to make sense of a passage of Scripture that is, a full scene or paragraph you often need to decide between two competing...
Octavio Esqueda — December 20, 2018
Jos矇, es el personaje olvidado de la navidad. Obviamente en la navidad celebramos el nacimiento de Jes繳s, el Cristo o Mes穩as, quien vino a este...
Love God and people
Octavio Esqueda — November 22, 2018
聶Papi, me puedes ense簽ar la educaci籀n cristiana? 癒Quiero saber el doctorado en educaci籀n cristiana! Estas fueron las palabras que mi hija de seis...
John McKinley — October 29, 2018
Many Christians typically follow the model of directing prayer to our Father but switch to the term God for conversation and theologizing. Why...
Octavio Esqueda — October 24, 2018
El t矇rmino evangelio es muy importante ya que resume el mensaje central del cristianismo. Esta palabra tiene su origen en el griego 庰廔帢帠帠峟弇庣怷彖 [...
Kenneth Way — October 22, 2018
Kenneth C. Way expands on some comments that were made in his recent commentary on Judges and Ruth.
Jesus Cast Out Demons
Matthew Williams — February 27, 2018
When we begin to talk about spiritual warfare, Christians either overemphasis it, or underemphasize it. It is important to have a balanced and...