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Kenneth Berding — July 20, 2022
鈥淚f only God showed me an extraordinary miracle, I would believe.鈥 Really? Are you sure that you would actually start believing in the existence of...
Mark Saucy — July 18, 2022
The following is the final post in a series of eight posts exploring the beauty of gender from a biblical perspective. Read the first post, The...
Kenneth Berding — June 15, 2022
Progressive Dispensationalism is a pattern of biblical interpretation that focuses 鈥 not entirely, but most particularly 鈥 on the question of how...
Kenneth Way — May 02, 2022
The wisdom literature of the Hebrew Bible is found in the five poetic books of Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs. This biblical...
Kenneth Berding — April 14, 2022
Every once in a while, I encounter a spiritually impacting paragraph while grading a term paper. Granted, this doesn鈥檛 happen often, but I really...
Kenneth Berding — April 11, 2022
One Christian book has spiritually helped me more than any other book during these past four months. God has used Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy , by...
Tom Finley — April 08, 2022
This is the third post in a series on who wrote the book of Daniel. Here you can find Part 1 and Part 2 . From history, we know that Nabonidus...
Gary Manning Jr — March 24, 2022
In a previous post, Did the Apostle Paul Use Profanity?, I debunked the claim that 蟽魏蠉尾伪位伪 (skubala, rubbish or waste), a word used by Paul in...
Kenneth Berding — March 15, 2022
How can James write: 鈥淏ut no one can tame the tongue鈥 (James 3:8 NAU) in one breath, and then in another write 鈥渢his ought not to be so鈥 (James...
Tom Finley — March 02, 2022
This is the second post in a series on who wrote the book of Daniel. Read the first post, Who Wrote the Book of Daniel? (Part 1) and the third...
Octavio Esqueda — January 24, 2022
Integrity is the essential distinctive for a follower of Christ. Our character defines, proclaims and demonstrates our faith in a holy God to all...
Carmen Imes — January 07, 2022
I'm excited to introduce a set of resources from GlossaHouse publishers that make language learning a lot more fun: The Illustrated Hebrew Bible...
Kenneth Berding — October 29, 2021
It has become increasingly popular in recent years for teachers of the Bible (myself included) to disparage people who apply Jeremiah 29:11-13 to...
Kenneth Berding — May 05, 2021
Paul boldly and famously asserts: 鈥渢he love of Christ controls us鈥 (2 Cor. 5:14). But what does he mean by 鈥渢he love of Christ鈥? If you鈥檙e willing...
Kenneth Berding — January 28, 2020
When you read the Bible, how do you connect what you read to practical life? When you preach or teach from the Bible, how do you move from a...
Octavio Esqueda — January 16, 2020
脷ltimamente he escuchado con bastante frecuencia a muchos l铆deres cristianos afirmar que la fe en Cristo es lo m谩s importante de todo y que todo lo...
Octavio Esqueda — December 16, 2019
La frase 鈥淛es煤s es el Se帽or鈥 puede considerarse como el fundamento principal del cristianismo. Estas palabras indican un reconocimiento sobre la...
Kenneth Berding — June 05, 2019
When I reach for a book from my reference shelf, which books do I reach for most often? Apart from biblical commentaries, here is a list of the 20...
Octavio Esqueda — April 15, 2019
This post stems from the Kern reading group on Faith, Work and Economics at Talbot, a small group comprised of Talbot and Crowell faculty that...
Octavio Esqueda — March 20, 2019
El c谩ntico de Mar铆a conocido como el Magnificat es uno de los salmos de alabanza m谩s bellos de las Sagradas Escrituras. Este c谩ntico tiene una...
Gary Manning Jr — January 02, 2019
When you are trying to make sense of a passage of Scripture 鈥 that is, a full scene or paragraph 鈥搚ou often need to decide between two competing...
Octavio Esqueda — December 20, 2018
Jos茅, es el personaje olvidado de la navidad. Obviamente en la navidad celebramos el nacimiento de Jes煤s, el Cristo o Mes铆as, quien vino a este...
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Octavio Esqueda — November 22, 2018
鈥溌縋api, me puedes ense帽ar la educaci贸n cristiana? 隆Quiero saber el doctorado en educaci贸n cristiana!鈥 Estas fueron las palabras que mi hija de seis...
John McKinley — October 29, 2018
Many Christians typically follow the model of directing prayer to 鈥渙ur Father鈥 but switch to the term 鈥淕od鈥 for conversation and theologizing. Why...
Octavio Esqueda — October 24, 2018
El t茅rmino 鈥渆vangelio鈥 es muy importante ya que resume el mensaje central del cristianismo. Esta palabra tiene su origen en el griego 蔚峤愇蔽澄澄晃刮课 [...