Tavis BohlingerThe new habitus of the Christian community "is always patterned around the death and resurrection of Jesus."
Matthew BoffeyToday news is breaking of Warren Wiersbe’s passing. He went home to be with the Lord yesterday, two weeks shy of his ninetieth birthday. Dr. Warren Wiersbe (May 16, 1929–May 2, 2019) was a beloved Bible teacher and author of over 150 books. Often...
Logos Staffatheism [ ey-thee-iz-uhm ] Also called: Godlessness Disbelief in God. Top Bible Verses about Atheism Psalm 14:1 The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They do abominable deeds. There is none who does good...
By Kevin Vanhoozer One of the key prophetic tasks of theology is to free the church, a holy nation, from idols. This includes false ideologies and metaphors and stories that guide and govern a people’s way of life. That’s the negative task of...
Lexham PressThis post is adapted from God of All Comfort: A Trinitarian Response to the Horrors of This World by Scott Harrower.
Today marks the beginning of the Days of Remembrance, the United States’ annual commemoration of the Holocaust. Between 1933 and 1945, the Nazi regime systematically persecuted and murdered an estimated six million Jews, as well as millions of...
Today is the National Day of Prayer in the United States, a day when millions of Christians join together to pray for our country. This stirring reflection from A.W. Tozer challenges Christians to consider whether their desires in prayer are sincere...
May 2 is national Days of Remembrance, an annual day to remember the six million Jews murdered by the Nazi regime and its collaborators in the Holocaust. The Ten Boom family of Haarlem, Netherlands, hid, fed, and cared for Jews during World War 2 in...
We’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...
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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...
Last 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...