Cast Your Bread Upon the Waters (Eccl 11:1): A Call to Bold Action
Recently in my work on the Ecclesiastes commentary, I came across the enigmatic proverb “Cast your bread upon the waters, for after... Read More
Confidence and Difficulty: Instilling Interpretive Confidence while Teaching on Difficult Passages
I knew I had a difficult task ahead of me. The next passage to teach in my Adult Bible Fellowship was 1... Read More
Start with the Mirror
“Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your... Read More
Dealing with a Difficult Passage: Samuel Speaks from the Dead in 1 Samuel 28
Dealing with difficult passages requires that we keep four hermeneutical principles in mind: Principle #1: Interpreting difficult passages starts with understanding what... Read More
The Gift of Singleness
The tendency among young men and women to delay marriage (or even to abandon it entirely) in contemporary Western society has... 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
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
The Devil (and God) is in the Details
This article is adapted from Bryan Murawski’s book, “Preaching Difficult Texts of the Old Testament” (Hendrickson, 2021). Someone once said, “The devil is in the... Read More
Dr. McCabe on Exodus 21:22-25 and Abortion
According to the World Heath Organization, over 42 million abortions were performed across the globe in 2020, making abortion the leading cause... Read More