2022 Faculty Recommended Booklist
For the past thirty years the faculty of Detroit Baptist Seminary have regularly released a list of recommended commentaries for each book... Read More
The Two Trees, Part 2: The Tree of Life
Having suggested in my previous post that there was nothing magical or supernatural about the tree of the knowledge of good and... Read More
The Two Trees, Part 1: The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
Among the many trees in the Garden of Eden, Scripture tells us, stood two trees of great significance: the tree of the... Read More
“Christ in All the Scriptures”?
The fact that all truth is interconnected and sourced in the Triune God means that God in Christ may be rightly connected... Read More
The Resurrection: More than a Giant Exclamation Point
The death and Resurrection of Christ together represent the pivotal event of the Christian Scriptures. In these two paired incidents are contained... Read More
Newsflash: Personal Discipline Is Not Legalism
I attended Bible College in the 1980s and seminary in the 1990s. The time I spent earning my Master of Divinity at... Read More
The Church and the Keys to the Kingdom
In 1964, George Eldon Ladd argued that the Church functions as “Custodian of the Kingdom” (Presence of the Future, 276). For many,... Read More
Some Thoughts about Heaven
“The Christian does not desire going to heaven; they desire to go to Christ, and wherever He is, there is heaven.” The... Read More
On Originalist Hermeneutics
A few years back I made a proposal that we replace the label “literal translation” with a better one—originalism—a term that has... Read More
When Your Authority Becomes Your Enemy
Post-Christian society is full of deniers—Christians unwilling to cede the loss of Christian influence and often unaware that this loss has irreparably... Read More