Category: New Testament

If you put these things before the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, being trained in the words of the faith and of the good...

Si esto enseñas a los hermanos, serás buen ministro de Jesucristo, nutrido con las palabras de la fe y de la buena doctrina que has seguido....

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the...

What does the apostle Paul mean when he uses the word “veil” in 2 Corinthians 3:12-4:3? For years I didn’t really understand 2 Corinthians 3:12-4:3...

And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up...

Y él mismo constituyó a unos, apóstoles; a otros, profetas; a otros, evangelistas; a otros, pastores y maestros, a fin de perfeccionar a los...

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is...

Así que, hermanos, os ruego por las misericordias de Dios, que presentéis vuestros cuerpos en sacrificio vivo, santo, agradable a Dios, que es...

And when a great crowd was gathering and people from town after town came to him, he said in a parable, “A sower went out to sow his seed. And as...

Juntándose una gran multitud, y los que de cada ciudad venían a él, les dijo por parábola: « El sembrador salió a sembrar su semilla; y mientras...

Why didn't Saul of Tarsus find the evidence for the Resurrection convincing?

We need to talk about the human heart. Confusion abounds. Perhaps we should start with the Scriptures. The Hebrew word rendered ‘heart’ in English...

When I first started to learn how to pray on my own, I thought that I had to kneel when I prayed. Most of the people I had read about who were...

If you connect a few historical dots, you may (as I did) find yourself thinking that Paul was friends with the son of Simon of Cyrene, the man who...

No. In the New Testament, prophecy is described as a revelation for a particular moment (1 Cor. 14:30). Preaching and teaching[1] is an exposition...

One privilege of teaching at Biola is watching students awaken to the power of loving God with their minds. Because our minds are part of our...

When Jesus hung on the cross, did he forgive those who crucified him? Technically, no. Jesus prayed that the Father would forgive his persecutors....

One popular but less-likely theory for why we celebrate Christmas on December 25 is that Christians piggy-backed their Christmas celebration on the...

Was the Apostle Paul effective as a public speaker or not? Was Paul’s facility in rhetoric strong or weak? New Testament scholars disagree on how...

There is a third way to interpret (and translate) Romans 8:28 than is found in most English translations, but most people don’t know it. Some...

The topic of Paul’s thorn in the flesh (2 Cor. 12:7) is, on the one hand, like a puzzle to be solved — what could have caused Paul such agony? —...

There are a lot of interesting claims about historical background to the New Testament that float around, especially on social media. I tell my...

My good friend Jon Lunde does a lot of counseling with people who are going through many kinds of challenges. Through the years, he has learned...

This is the third post in a three-part series on the top ten myths about “The Ten Commandments.” Read Part 1 and Part 2 . In the first two...

This is the second post in a three-part series on the top ten myths about the Ten Commandments. Part 1 was posted last week and Part 3will be...