Two Fundamental Questions in Abortion Debate
The abortion debate in the public square often goes awry by delving into details that are irrelevant to the debate, bypassing the... Read More
“Read the Eternities”: A Brief Review of Jeffrey Bilbro’s “Reading the Times: A Literary and Theological Inquiry into the News”
The quotation in the title of this blog post comes from Henry David Thoreau, who more broadly warns that “We should treat... Read More
The Pastor’s Guide to Time Blocking
Perhaps you (like me) have had grand plans of working steadily on projects or sermons only to find that it is Saturday... Read More
The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence at the Intersection of Original Writing
The other day Pastor Doran, Kyle Dunham, and I were discussing the advent of AI technology. Of course, AI has been around... Read More
Joseph as a Pattern of Rejected, Royal Rule and Its Implications for Dispensational Interpretation
Lately, as a result of three factors I’ve been thinking a fair bit about the potential role Joseph plays in biblical typology.... 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 Trouble with Being Reformed and Baptist
The words Reformed and Baptist mean something and they are and always have been mutually exclusive. So begins one of Scott Clark’s several diatribes on the paradox of... Read More
Bible Faculty Summit 2022
DBTS just hosted the Bible Faculty Summit, a meeting of faculty from various theological institutions. This year, we had multiple faculty members... 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
Purposeful Suffering
We can endure the worst kinds of pain when there is a meaningful purpose. A cadet can endure strenuous labor and exhaustion... Read More