Logos StaffWe’re approaching wedding season—full of June brides, scenic destinations, and as many gift cards and blenders as one heart could desire. Yet as Matt Chandler points out in this excerpt from The Mingling of Souls , weddings aren’t about the setting...
Tavis BohlingerThe TDOT Aramaic Dictionary ships today.
With collected works in Logos, you bring renowned Christian theologians right into your studies. It’s like having them next to you to say, “Psst, if you don’t mind, I have a thought on that.” For example, let’s say you’re preparing a sermon on...
In order to know God and his perspective, people need to access his stream of consciousness or to have it opened up to them. Engagement with God requires more than being able to state things about him: it involves a person-to-person relationship in...
Douglas EstesI am a perfectionist. While this may seem like a simple admission, it took me many years to self-diagnose and admit that I am, in fact, a perfectionist. Nothing in my personality or past experiences led me to believe that I was a perfectionist...
By Francis Chan and Lisa Chan Truth be told, Lisa and I have very little in common. I love sports, she doesn’t. She loves the mall, I hate it with a passion. She likes to sing, and I sound like a cow. I love weird Asian food, she thinks it’s creepy...
Matthew BoffeyLast week we posted about whether Jesus went to hell after his death, and in what sense. One of the chief passages on this topic is 1 Peter 3:18–20, specifically verse 19: “in which he [the resurrected Christ] went and proclaimed to the spirits in...
Enjoy these quotes on salvation and repentance from Carson, Barth, and Spurgeon. (Bonus quote from Tozer at the end, too.) D.A. Carson If God had perceived that our greatest need was economic, he would have sent an economist. If he had perceived...
There are certain passages that make you scratch your head, even if you’ve read them before. Luke 11:24–26 is one of them. Here’s how Joel Green, author of the Luke volume in the New International Commentary of the New Testament (NICNT), treats...
“If I could only own one full set of commentaries, the New International Commentary on the Old and New Testaments would be my choice. . . Like a fine wine, it has continued to improve with age.” — Randy McCracken, author and professor Like BDAG...
By Elisabeth Elliot When I came to the realization that my husband was missing, not knowing for another five days that he was dead, the words that God brought to me then were from Isaiah the 43rd chapter, “When thou passest through the waters I will...
Guest AuthorI have already offered thoughts for the preaching scholar concerning first things and meditation, as well as my suggested exegetical resources for preaching (including exegetical commentaries). Here I want to pass on my favorite theological...
There’s no better way to grow in your faith than to get God’s Word into each day—or rather, to let God’s Word get into you. To gain a truly deep understanding of the Bible, you have to learn to study it inductively—to suspend judgment about a text’s...
Creating your media presentations with Proclaim is even faster with our latest feature update: Suggested Media. Proclaim can now automatically suggest media to add to your presentation based on the season. Here’s a step-by-step guide to using the...
by Chris Porter Coming to biblical studies from prior research in the social sciences I am often asked what makes for good interdisciplinary research. While a valid question, I think the more interesting question is what makes a good...
For Christians, everything hinges on the resurrection. But without Jesus’ death to pay for our sins (atonement), there would be no resurrection. Here are 10 recommendations to learn more about these two most important events in history, the...
Just as Son of David implies far more than that Jesus is merely David’s descendant, so Son of Abraham implies far more than that Jesus is merely born of Abraham’s line. The title Son of David indicates that Jesus is the fulfillment of God’s...
Jake MailhotWhat is marriage? It’s a question the Bible holds the keys to because God created marriage and revealed it in Scripture. Given the confusion in our culture and in our churches, agreeing upon the basic meaning of marriage is no longer a “given.” The...
Grant OsborneThis post is adapted from Acts Verse by Verse by Grant Osborne (Lexham Press, 2019). Most ancient books trace the “acts” of heroes like Odysseus, Alexander the Great, or Julius Caesar. Luke’s is unique because these are the “acts” of a movement. As...
by Daniel K. Eng Last week, I gave a talk for an undergraduate course, Introduction to the New Testament, at The King’s College, New York City, per the invitation of my friend Benjamin G. White. In the lecture, I offered an overview of the epistle...
The final days of Jesus’ earthly ministry are surrounded in truth and eternal significance from which we’ll never stop learning. In his devotional And the Angels Were Silent from the Chronicles of the Cross Collection, Max Lucado presents an Easter...
Karen EngleThirty-three miles east of the Mediterranean Sea on a limestone plateau in the Judaean Hills rests one of the oldest cities in the world: Jerusalem. Jerusalem is mentioned 660 times in the Old Testament and 141 in the New—more if you count all its...
By Timothy Keller What is this “gospel” for which Paul is willing to glory in being a slave? What gospel would make Paul happy to lose everything in order to share it? First, it is worth reflecting on the word itself. “Gospel”—euangeloi—is literally...
Michael S. HeiserDan Brown’s bestselling conspiratorial thriller The Da Vinci Code seems like ancient history now. At its peak of popularity, the novel set records both for sales and for irritating scholars with its view that Jesus and the 12 apostles held to...
Bonhoeffer "most clearly points to the Christ as God’s Word for us, not simply to us, but emphatically on our behalf."
By Lucas O’Neill, author of Preaching to Be Heard Many sermons are like meals from typical fast-food chains—flavor at the expense of nutrition. It’s easy, fast, cheap, and tastes addictively good. Your We begin with the text and we surrender the...
Nijay GuptaWe have offered some preliminary comments on preaching, its purposes and the mindset of the preacher. Now I want to offer some guidance on Bible study and exegetical resources. Now, it would be easy for me to go on and on with book recommendations...
DidaktikosI put some questions recently to John Meade and Peter Gurry regarding their newly launched Text and Canon Institute, based at Phoenix Seminary. In this interview, they discuss the impetus behind the Institute, the significance of textual criticism...
by Adam Winn | University of Mary Hardin-Baylor Rome and Rome’s empire have always been recognized as significant pieces of the New Testament’s background. It was a Roman governor who sentenced Jesus to die on a Roman cross. It was a Roman...
Jennifer GrishamThe ECPA just released its 2019 Christian Book Award finalists, and we’re excited to share that two Lexham Press titles are finalists! Let’s meet our finalists: The Lexham Geographic Commentary on the Gospels is a finalist in the Bible Reference...