Kirk E. MillerSome describe the Gospels as accounts of Jesus’s death with really long introductions. Statements like this can downplay the bulk of the Gospels’ narratives, as though Jesus’s death were the only point of importance and everything else is just...
Mitch ChaseYou cannot tell the whole story of the Bible without talking about marriage. In the beginning, God created a man and a woman and put them in a covenant relationship with each other.
Michael Azad HaykinBaptists comprise one of the largest denominational bodies in the Christian world. But what do Baptists believe? In this article, we’ll seek to answer that question, first, by exploring Baptist origins in the renewal movement of Puritanism...
JoAnna HoytMarriage is beautiful. It is complex and wonderful. We talk, preach, and teach about marriage frequently. And rightly so! Marriage has a valued place in God’s kingdom. But does the value of marriage negate the value of singleness? After all...
Matt BarriosOur team has been cooking up some new improvements over the last few weeks. We’re thrilled to share them with you today and hope they help you go deeper into the Word! Some of these updates are available to everyone. Others are just for those...
Steven WedgeworthDoes God plan everything ahead of time? If so, does that mean humans lack free will, that we are like robots? Such topics lead to questions about salvation: Does God save only those he’s chosen in advance? And, if so, how is that fair? These are the...
Joshua JippAs the late and esteemed Larry Hurtado asked, Why on earth did anyone become a Christian in the first three centuries? The familial, economic, and social costs of turning from the worship of the traditional pagan gods and converting to the Way (the...
John DyerAs AI enables more devices to become more capable, I'm led to reconsider another favorite question that I often ask Christian audiences: What technology do you think will—or won’t—be in heaven? More specifically, why (or why not) would there be...
Michael F. BirdIs Christianity a servile and womanish religion? It is somewhat ironic that today people sometimes dismiss Christianity as too patriarchal, whereas the ancient Romans reviled the churches as too womanish. They accused Christianity of being for the...
Sandra GlahnIn Acts 19:35, the Ephesus city clerk refers to an image that fell from heaven. What was this image that fell from heaven?
Wyatt GrahamWhy does so much evil exist in the world? Why do men murder? Why do countries go to war? Why do people exploit others? Why do we live in a world marked by human evil? Foundational to answering these questions is the doctrine of original sin...
Logos StaffRecently, Kristen Tetteh sat down with Bill McCarthy, our new CEO, to interview him about his life, work experience, and what drew him to Logos. Watch or read the short interview below! Kristen Tetteh: So, who is Bill McCarthy? Bill McCarthy: Oh...
Joel BiermannAdmittedly, this is not one of the first questions people ask. Much more common is the question, Why do bad things happen to good people? For Christians, though, an equally disturbing question is: Why do good people do bad things? It is a...
Joseph DodsonI recently heard about a hiker who came across another hiker with her two dogs. As they chatted, the dog owner unleashed her pets so that they could frolic among the flowers and the trees. The dogs could not contain their excitement as they felt...
Matthew StanleyBy the numbers, Christianity has been a predominantly Catholic and European religion for over a millennium, but the future of Christianity has come to look increasingly Protestant and African. The Center for the Study of Global Christianity...
Jeffrey Wiesner“Am I sinning?” This is an inevitable question those in ministry will be asked. Christians want to know whether or not particular thoughts, words, and deeds are sinful. A glance at recent Google monthly search metrics reveals how anxious people are...
Here at Logos, we’re always looking to improve—from little bug fixes to big improvements and new features, too. Over the last few weeks, our team built, refined, and shipped these updates with care. We hope you enjoy them and that they empower...
Watching a professing Christian apostatize a great tragedy to witness. The details aren’t always the same in each case, but the outcome is the same: a forsaken faith. As the The Eerdmans Bible Dictionary explains, apostasy is a term designating the...
Chapter after chapter in the book of Exodus relays in painstaking detail the tabernacle’s plan and construction. The entire last half of Exodus narrates the building of the tabernacle (Exod 25–40). Following this, the setting for the entire book of...
Jamey BennettWhat is the Orthodox Church? And how do Orthodox Christians approach the study of Scripture? For many believers outside of Orthodoxy, Orthodox Christianity seems exotic and foreign. But for believers inside her communion, she is sometimes called the...
Our Western world is Christian enough to grasp that words like sin, repentance, and redemption are technical Christian terms. But it is post-Christian enough to not understand what those words mean within the storyline of Scripture or within a...
Brett McCrackenRecent advances in highly sophisticated, generative AI technologies have made headlines and sparked countless hot takes. These headlines and hot takes—on the novelty of ChatGPT, AI-generated deepfakes, and so forth—will appear antiquated in just a...
James HamiltonI offer a controversial claim: Baptizing babies by sprinkling or pouring does not comport with the typological function of the floodwaters of God’s judgment in the Old Testament. Rather, I contend that, by understanding typology and this...
We asked a few of your favorite Word by Word writers what they're looking forward to reading this summer, and they did not disappoint. It's a well-rounded mix. We debated only sharing the items we carry in our store, but the fact that our writers...
What do we see when we read the book of Job? Several things, no doubt. We see a man undergoing terrible emotional and physical suffering. We find the surprise of a spouse who tells him to turn from God. We encounter friends who counsel him with...
Daniel R. HydeWhat does it mean to be Reformed? What even is Reformed theology? Spend any amount of time in Christian spaces on social media, and you'll soon see that confusion and caricatures abound. Many who presume to speak authoritatively about Reformed...
Portia CollinsI vividly remember the days of my youth living in Mississippi. On bright summers days, my friends and I spent a lot of time outside. We’d compare our shadows as the blazing sun hit our backs. We’d run, jump, and flail our arms, watching our shadows...
Alastair RobertsTo read any book well, we need a “read” upon the sort of text that the book is. For example, while both could be purchased in the typical bookstore, a recipe book must be “read” very differently from a Shakespearean play. The recipe book invites its...
Mark BriansMany are familiar with the stories of multiplication in Scripture. For instance, God takes the very small stores of the widow of Zarephath and multiplies them, making them last miraculously until the end of the drought.
Trevor LaurenceIf we are to learn to read the Bible well, we must learn the language in which it speaks. I don’t specifically mean Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek—though those may be helpful, to be sure. I mean that we must familiarize ourselves with the...