Steve AuldAs encouraging as our church’s numerical growth has been in recent days, the real growth I long to see is spiritual growth. I long to see my people hunger and thirst more and more for God; I long to see them beholding and becoming more like Jesus; I...
James SewardReading and understanding the Bible is something most of us do intuitively. At least, that is, until we encounter someone who has interpreted a passage in a way that seems completely at odds with what it’s plainly saying. Suddenly, we realize how...
Ryan LyttonThe doctoral landscape has changed significantly in recent decades. In the past, earning a research doctorate often meant relocating to a Western institution for years of expensive, immersive study. Today, prospective doctoral students have an array...
Chase KrugIn the opening chapters of Acts, Luke offers what is likely the most comprehensive description of a healthy church in the New Testament. And yet, while it’s easy to think that the Jerusalem Church was nearly perfect, Luke disabuses us of any such...
Steven WedgeworthMany churches are discovering the practice of reading from a lectionary. Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran, and Anglican churches have historically used formal lectionaries, but the practice is growing in other Protestant church bodies. I’d...
Joshua JippBy the late first or early second century AD, the last book of the New Testament had been written. In AD 325, the Council of Nicaea would articulate the doctrine of the Trinity and adapt the church’s rule of faith into an official creed. But what...
Ben HicksWhen will I actually use this? It’s a fair question asked by many a Greek student. Preachers-in-training spend hours and hours memorizing verb charts and vocabulary; learning participle, infinitive, and genitive uses; and trying to grasp the grammar...
Wyatt GrahamSacrifices in the Old Testament can seem strange, even repulsive: animal death, blood splashed on altars, covenant salt, ritual uncleanliness. Yet the sacrificial language of Leviticus matters, and not only for Israel’s worship. These offerings...
Richard LucasMost Christians who have grown up attending a gospel-preaching church can recount the famous stories from the Bible. They know about Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, the animals on Noah’s ark, Moses parting the Red Sea, David defeating Goliath...
Mark WardI went to ten years of seminary and skipped out on fast food to buy Logos books because I wanted to know as best a human could how to interpret the Bible well. I had teachers and mentors—and especially one pastor—who clearly had the tools I lacked...
Sean McGeverWhich social media platforms should we use? What is a catchy name? Where do we stand on audio/visual equipment? Where’s a good location to meet? Who can we get to help out? How many people do we hope will show up? These are very good questions that...
Glenn ButnerEven the youngest Christians are usually aware that Jesus was born a baby to save us, lived a holy life, died on the cross for our sins, and rose again from the dead. However, if you ask many Christians to explain why it is that Jesus’s birth...
Kirk E. MillerWhat is the mission of the church in the world today? In this episode of Logos Live, Kirk E. Miller sits down with author and missiologist Dr. Ed Stetzer to trace the mission of God from Genesis to the Great Commission. Whether you are navigating...
Jessica LaGroneWesleyanism is a vibrant movement of Christianity that traces its roots to the eighteenth-century ministry of two brothers, John and Charles Wesley. Emerging initially as a renewal movement within the Church of England, it sought to restore what its...
Thomas BoehmFor nearly two thousand years, devotion to the God of Israel has unfolded along two largely diverging paths that we now recognize as the religions of Judaism and Christianity. Yet this separation too easily obscures the historical reality that the...
Lucas StampsDoes the Bible teach that we have guardian angels? Explore what Scripture, church history, and the Reformers say about guardian angels.
In Matthew 13, Jesus seems to say that he used parables to prevent people from perceiving and repenting. Did Jesus speak in parables to conceal the message of the kingdom from his hearers? In this episode of What in the Word?, pastor Philip Anthony...
Chris BrunoIn his last letter in the New Testament, St. Paul reminds Timothy that a central part of his ministry as a pastor is to raise up and entrust the gospel message to others who would then, in turn, entrust that message to others still. In other words...
Joseph HarrodBaptist colleges, universities, and seminaries prepare students to serve Christ and fulfill his mission in the world. This guide orients readers to a list of ten major Baptist institutions of higher education in the United States and Canada. If your...
Michael F. BirdYou should study Jude and 2 Peter. Jude is often called the “most neglected book in the New Testament.” David deSilva laments, “If Bible publishers stopped printing Jude, it might take years for some people to notice.” Yet, while Jude’s epistle may...
Does James contradict Paul? In this episode of What in the Word?, host Kirk E. Miller sits down with pastor and theologian Mark Jones to tackle James. They explore the apparent tension between Paul’s doctrine of justification by faith alone and...
Logos StaffDon’t just turn to Logos when preparing a lesson or chasing a question. Version 52 brings a huge redesign to Reading Plans, helping you stay consistent in your daily reading and study. We’re also bringing you another upgrade to Study Assistant...
JoAnna HoytThose of us in Christian academia (whether students or professors) find ourselves in the awkward position of devoting ourselves to the academic study of the Bible. This sort of study thrives on deadlines and technical details. However, we are also...
Does human unbelief have the power to limit the all-powerful God? In this episode of What in the Word?, Kirk E. Miller sits down with theologian Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen to tackle the startling claim in Mark 6 that Jesus “could do no mighty work” in...
Curt LeonardPastoring can feel discouraging when the size of the church feels more like a Bible study than a church service. Learn to see the small size of your church as an asset, not a liability, with these six tips.
Just as a newborn baby must be nourished and nurtured by those who are older and more mature in order to grow, so a newborn Christian needs the care and guidance of believers who are further along in the faith. This is the work of Christian...
Daniel DarlingThis year, Americans will celebrate 250 years as a nation. But celebration of these freedoms raises a question: How should Christians think about love of country? Daniel Darling shares four principles for applying the Bible to the question of...
Too many churches have taken the prayer meeting back behind the barn and shot it. If those prayer meetings were like some I’ve been to, I’m sympathetic. Yet Scripture makes plain from beginning to end that humble, desperate pleading with God is...
Since we no longer have the original manuscripts, is our text of the New Testament reliable? Given the magnitude of variations between manuscripts, can we reliably reconstruct the original? Premier New Testament text critic Daniel B. Wallace joins...
Andrew M. DavisTwo trees once lived on my property. Both are no longer there. The first was a loblolly pine over twenty feet tall. On the night of December 5, 2002, there was a terrible ice storm in North Carolina where I live. A deluge of freezing rain covered...