23
Aug
2024
Have You Considered Auditing a Course at DBTS this Fall?
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The Fall 2024 semester here at DBTS will begin next Thursday the 29th. The schedule for this fall with links to course descriptions and textbooks, can be found here. While it’s not too late to apply for a degree program, you could also consider auditing a course, receiving the same great content and the opportunity... Read More
19
Aug
2024
Review of How to Read a Book by Andrew Naselli
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This past April, Andrew Naselli’s new volume, How to Read a Book: Advice for Christian Readers, was released by Canon Press. Over the past few months, six of my kids have read it. Most of them had already read Adler’s book with a similar title.[1] They thought Naselli’s book was an extremely helpful resource and,... Read More
12
Aug
2024
Does Proverbs Plagiarize from Egyptian Wisdom?
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Recently, I came across a Reddit thread with a provocative title: “The Bible’s God-inspired book of Proverbs is plagiarized from the Egyptian Teachings of Amenemope.” The thread was of interest because I had recently finished working through the section that allegedly borrows from The Instruction of Amenemope in my work for a forthcoming Proverbs commentary... Read More
5
Aug
2024
Theologically Loaded Catch-Lines, Part 2: What Does It Mean for God to “Be with Us”?
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In this post I resume my series of blogposts on historically/theologically freighted phrases/clauses/mantras that have become cliché in contemporary Christian-speak—lines that are intrinsically innocuous (i.e., the words themselves are unobjectionable) but sometimes mask ideas that are not. The second of these catch-lines is the request for God to be “with us.” This line pops up routinely in... Read More
29
Jul
2024
What to Do After Graduation? Why Not Go Back to Your Home Church
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This post was originally published here on January 21, 2014. Many college and seminary students are either preparing for another semester of school to start or have already begun working on classes. For some, this will be their final semester before graduation. Though some may have already determined the next step, others are still weighing... Read More
8
Jul
2024
Review of 1 Peter (ICC) by Williams and Horrell (Part 2)
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This post continues (see Part 1 here) a review of the new, two-volume commentary in the ICC series by Travis Williams and David Horrell. In this post on Volume 2, we will examine the exegesis of a few debated passages in chapters 3–5, the chapters covered in this volume. We will first explore the authors’... Read More
1
Jul
2024
Theologically Loaded Catch-Lines, Episode 1: What Does It Mean to “Cease Striving”?
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I’ve decided to start a mini-series of blogposts on historically freighted phrases/clauses/mantras that have been detached from their moorings and have become cliché in contemporary Christian-speak. Most of the time these lines are intrinsically innocuous (i.e., the words themselves are unobjectionable), but the ideas they represent are not always so. The goal in this series is... Read More
24
Jun
2024
Review of 1 Peter (ICC) by Williams and Horrell (Part 1)
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Travis B. Williams and David G. Horrell have recently produced an expansive two-volume commentary on 1 Peter. Both volumes together stretch to just over 1,600 pages, covering 105 verses. The introduction alone is over 300 pages. It is one of the most well-researched commentaries currently available on 1 Peter. The bibliography at the end of... Read More
17
Jun
2024
Does Matthew 24 Describe the Rapture of the Church (Part 5)?
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This series has been looking at nine arguments made by John Hart in Evidence for the Rapture for a pre-tribulation rapture in Matthew 24. So far, in Part 1, we have seen that there is a switch at 24:36 from a gathering of believers that comes after signs (vv. 29–31) to a gathering that comes suddenly... Read More
10
Jun
2024
Church Leadership in the First Century
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What did church leadership look like in the first century? Below are a few observations. In a passage penned in the mid-first century, James addressed the question of what to do when one is facing serious illness. He wrote, “Is anyone among you sick? Let him call the elders of the church, and let them... Read More