Rebecca IdestromWe Christians talk a lot about God’s glory. We sing worship songs about it, and we desire to give the Lord all the honor and glory in our lives. But what does the word glory actually mean? How does Scripture define it, and what does the Bible mean...
Ryan LyttonThe story in Luke 15:11–32 is universally recognized as the parable of the prodigal son. This designation is a much later addition, a fact that pastors and commentators rightly call out regularly. However, their correction typically swings in the...
Logos StaffTwo years ago, Logos made you a promise. As product manager and longtime Logos user Mark Barnes wrote, the new Logos will get better and better every few weeks. Previously, new features and updates had to wait for the next big version every two...
Eric BrandtA few years ago, while serving as an academic administrator at a Bible college, I sat across from a graduating senior in our business program for his exit interview. He loved his professors in the major, and he loved his Bible and theology courses...
Gene VeithTechnology pessimists are saying that AI will kill us all. To me, technology optimists are even scarier, believing that AI will eliminate our need to work, think, create, communicate, learn, invent, and have relationships. Either scenario would end...
Matthew BoffeyI knew the New International Commentary (NIC) series appeared often on bestcommentaries.com, but I was curious to see just how they stacked up, so I did some digging. A few titles especially stood out, and I highlight them below. Beneath that, I...
Matthew KimGuests expect a friendly church, but it’s not always what they experience. As church leaders, we might believe that we are the friendliest church in town. In fact, according to a study done by Thom Rainer, virtually all churches overestimated their...
Mark JonesConcupiscence is a word neither well known today nor well understood. Nonetheless, there is a rich, varied history of this concept in the Christian tradition. In fact, it has been the occasion of severe debates between, principally, Reformed and...
Michael F. BirdThe Quest for the historical Jesus is the attempt to describe the man Jesus of Nazareth—his life, message, death, impact, and the origins of belief in his resurrection—using historiographical methods. It uses all the sources available, including the...
Wyatt GrahamHistorically, Christians have not paid much attention to The Prayer of Jabez. In this article, Wyatt Graham demystifies the prayer of Jabez by uncovering its original context and commending its edifying use as a prayer for Christians today.
Chase KrugYou’ve likely been there before. You carve out time for a devotion, read a passage on the Lord’s majesty or grace—something that you know should thrill your heart—but you don’t feel thrilled. You don’t feel much of anything. How can we move forward?
Dustin BurletAt the heart of all effective interpretation of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament (HB/OT) lies a nuanced understanding of syntax (discourse). Syntax involves diligently studying the way(s) in which words, phrases, clauses, and sentences relate to one...
Mark WardHermeneutics is the art and science of interpretation. Most often, in my experience, the word is used to describe interpreting one specific book, as that book presents a wholly unique set of interpretive challenges. That book is, of course, the...
Steve AuldThe living God is and always has been a missionary God. God’s passion for his glory to be known and enjoyed by all nations is at the heart of this missionary God. This missionary heart is most clearly revealed in the gospel: Seeing his people in...
Some days you want to open the app and just read. Other days you want all your study tools spread across the screen. And most of us have started a reading plan with good intentions, only to lose track by week 2. Version 54 (v54) lets the mobile app...
Few would dispute that all students of biblical languages must prioritize learning vocabulary. To that end, this guide covers some of the best resources for effectively building one’s Hebrew vocabulary.
Chris PalmerAt the moment of writing, I am at Cambridge University. I have just had the privilege of hearing Dr. John Lennox lecture to a room full of eager students at Jesus College. Lennox is a world-renowned mathematician, scientist, and bestselling author...
Scott HurstNobody in my church was shaken by Richard Dawkins’s claim that God is a moral monster. However, Alex O’Connor explaining why he is not a believer by highlighting the problem of divine hiddenness hits much closer to home. In the silence of seemingly...
Michael SvigelWould you ask a newly married couple on their honeymoon for marriage advice? Probably not with a straight face. But that’s what it felt like when a small group of seminary students asked me to be their internship mentor during my second year of full...
Daniel StegemanOur family cat Buttercup is a hunter par excellence. Almost daily she deposits a kill on our back porch, be it a mouse, bird, mole, squirrel, chipmunk, or even rabbit. (I have joked with my wife that we don’t need a dog, we already have a watch-cat...
Glenn ButnerIf God is good, why is there so much suffering? Most of us have probably sought explanations for suffering in light of our faith in God, or else evil may have contributed to our doubts about God’s existence. If you have spent any extended amount of...
T. Desmond AlexanderJerusalem, for most people, refers primarily to a real city in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. Also known as Zion, this city is mentioned many times in the Bible. But the name Jerusalem is also associated with...
David VeldkampPresbyterian and Reformed colleges, universities, and seminaries equip their students to fulfill what many Reformed Christians confess is their primary goal, which is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever. Within college and university contexts...
Brent ParkerContemporary theological—and even political—debates often center on the relationship between national Israel and the church. While vital, these discussions belong to a much broader motif: the identity and development of the people of God across...
The ultimate destination of believers is not our immortal souls experiencing disembodied bliss among the angels in some kind of cloud-like cathedral. The ultimate destiny of God's people is the new creation. But what will we do there?
Ed StetzerNearly 50,000 denominations exist today. Are we missing the unity Jesus prayed for (John 17)? Let’s look at Jesus’s final prayer and what genuine gospel partnership requires.
Beth StovellProphets are associated with hearing the Lord’s word for the future, speaking into situations of injustice, and calling for change. As we better understand who the prophets were, the prophecies they gave, the role of prophecy in the Old and New...
George MooreThis piece will explain best practices for one-on-one discipleship, but before we get there, we must first lay out the importance of discipleship. Jesus’s leadership plan At the age of thirty, Jesus of Nazareth embarked on a mission that would...
Dana HarrisAs someone who has done lots of home improvement projects in the past few years, I have come to realize how valuable proper tools are. But as with most jobs, there isn’t one tool that works on every project. The right tool makes all the...
Richard HarveyWhen we started the London Messianic Congregation in the 1970s, there were almost no books on Messianic Judaism. There are now thousands of Messianic congregations around the world, and hundreds of thousands who identify as Jewish disciples of...