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William Lane Craig — April 28, 2023
This is a Q & A blog post by our Visiting Scholar in Philosophy, William Lane Craig. Question I recently read a paper titled 'Is the Cause...
Kenneth Way — January 27, 2023
I was privileged to write a chapter about the book of Judges for a volume that honors my doctoral advisor, professor Nili S. Fox. My contribution...
Kenneth Way — January 25, 2023
I was privileged to contribute a chapter titled “The Lost World of Lexical Semantics: Samson’s Spectacle in Judges 16:25” in For Us, but Not to Us...
Kenneth Berding — August 03, 2022
What is the meaning of “fall short of the glory of God” (ὑστεροῦνται τῆς δόξης τοῦ θεοῦ) in Romans 3:23? (“For all have sinned and fall short of...
Kenneth Berding — July 25, 2022
“Your law is my delight.” (Ps. 119:77). Have you ever felt like this verse, or verses like it, mock you? I certainly have felt that way at times....
Kenneth Berding — July 20, 2022
“If only God showed me an extraordinary miracle, I would believe.” Really? Are you sure that you would actually start believing in the existence of...
Mark Saucy — July 18, 2022
The following is the final post in a series of eight posts exploring the beauty of gender from a biblical perspective. Read the first post, The...
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 doesn’t 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 σκύβαλα (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 you’re 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
Últimamente he escuchado con bastante frecuencia a muchos líderes cristianos afirmar que la fe en Cristo es lo más importante de todo y que todo lo...
Octavio Esqueda — December 16, 2019
La frase “Jesús es el Señor” 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 cántico de María conocido como el Magnificat es uno de los salmos de alabanza más bellos de las Sagradas Escrituras. Este cántico tiene una...