Michael F. BirdJoan Osborne’s 1995 pop hit What If God Was One of Us? asked an excellent question. Another song, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing—a famous hymn of Charles Wesley and George Whitefield—gives the correct answer. The ancient world had many deities, even...
Mary JahnkeWho is God? What’s he like? Ask a hundred people, and you might just get a hundred answers. So let’s find out the truth of who he is—from Scriptures. They’re his Word to us, a gift that allows us to get to know him directly. As...
Tobin Perry“Attributes of God” sounds like a stuffy theological phrase that barely relates to how we live our Christian lives. In fact, most of us (me included) have to sit with a dictionary in hand to understand the $100 words some theologians use...
Michael S. HeiserDoes the Bible talk about sea monsters? Are they literal? In this excerpt about sea monsters in the Bible from his book I Dare You Not to Bore Me with the Bible, Dr. Michael Heiser explores the mention of “sea monsters,”...
Chris Date“What does God say about hell?” asks Kris Brossett, kicking off his two-article series on the topic. Brossett proceeds to survey the three historic Christian views of hell—eternal torment, conditional immortality, and universalism—and commendably...
Guest Author"There are just enough gaps in the story to make it a dangerous one, as the interpreter is tempted to retell it with commentary on Jonah’s psychology."
Tavis BohlingerI realize these are widely held views, and that I am going up against some of the titans of biblical scholarship in the 20th century.
I recently had the privilege of sitting down (virtually) with the three editors of a large collection of essays by leading biblical scholars and theologians engaging with the highly esteemed and highly controversial N.T. Wright. That volume is God...
Mark WardIf you want to start a fight, meddle with people’s religion and their grammar at the same time. Here goes. I think it’s time to no longer capitalize deity pronouns in Christian writing and in (most) Bible translations. Shall we take this out back? I...
Ray Deck IIIIn Matthew 7:13, Jesus describes the Christian life—the path to spiritual freedom—as being a narrow road that’s difficult to find and follow. He said that most people take a different road—a road that is wide and flat, a road that is easy to...
OUR wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. But as these are connected together by many ties, it is not easy to determine which of the two...
seth-rossHave you ever taken a trip? Did it go just like you had planned? Chances are, if you’ve traveled much at all, at some point you’ve found yourself dealing with unexpected delays, detail changes or maybe even a complete cancellation of...
Ryan BurnsSo, I haven’t written a personal post in a while, so I thought I’d catch you up to speed. HOWEVER, before I do, I have to express my amazement at the underwhelming response to the iPod giveaway. I thought for sure that we’d get a...
Ok friends, not giving any advice in this post… Just thinking out loud here… So, if you know about me then you know I am not currently attending seminary. I’ve been taking seminary classes virtually and was planning on transferring...
So, as part of this blog I’ll be chronicling my journey to and in seminary. So, to catch you up to speed we need to go back… way back… I’d say it was in middle school (about 18 years ago) that I first felt a...
So, one of the books that helped me the most in finally making the decision to attend seminary was Bruce K. Waltke’s book, Finding the Will of God: A Pagan Notion? In his book Waltke masterfully addresses an issue that is all too common in the...