In January, during Christmas Break, Inter-City Baptist Church was privileged to host over 200 college and seminary students for the Student Global Impact National Conference. Since 2000, every other year, this conference has provided an opportunity for college and...
I’m teaching a class on Paul this semester and this week we looked at 1–2 Thessalonians. One of the interesting things about these letters is that both appear to have been co-authored by Paul and two of his companions, Silas—you may know him as Silvanus—and Timothy...
DBTS will host a presentation of Logos Bible Software on Wednesday, February 1 at 11 a.m., upstairs in the chapel of the seminary building. The presentation will introduce the software and demonstrate some specific ways Logos takes Bible study to the next level. The...
It's flu and virus season, and if you're a public speaker, you probably worry at least occasionally about the possibility of losing your voice. Many years ago, I read some advice from Charles Spurgeon in pages 203-4 of his Lectures to My Students, and in a moment of...
Here’s some good news. According to Operation World, evangelical faith exploded in Africa during the 20th century. There are now approximately 182 million believers in Africa, a population nearly double the size of the evangelical community in the United States. This...
Each year DBTS hosts the William R. Rice Lecture Series, named for the Seminary's founder and first president. We are pleased to announce that the speaker for this year's event on March 14, 2012, will be Dr. Bryant G. Wood. His topic will be “Archaeology and the...
The DBTS 2012 summer school schedule is now available. Each class meets Tuesday through Friday from 8 AM to 12 noon for two weeks (no classes on Monday). There are three sessions of summer school: May 15-25, May 29-June 8, and June 12-22. Two different classes are...
Michael Medved seeks to answers the question in an article today in the Wall Street Journal.
DBTS will be sponsoring Seminary Days this spring on March 1-2 and March 8-9. Complete information on Seminary Days 2012, including a brochure and registration form, can be found on the Seminary website. Students will be able to attend classes, share meals with...
For all you Tebow fans, here is an interesting article about the most talked about player in the National Football League.
The premier Bible software for the Macintosh is Accordance. The tendency for most of us after installing a new software package is simply to plunge right in and start using the program. This works well for Accordance, which is very user-friendly. But a little...
One of the major “characters” in the Christmas story is—perhaps surprisingly—a star, one that some wise men follow from the East all the way to Bethlehem. The star makes a brief appearance in Matthew’s gospel (2:2, 7, 9, 10), before passing off the scene (and into...
Here are 12 useful tips for all you Facebook users from the New York Times.
C. S. Lewis warned us of chronological snobbery, the natural proclivity to see the newest book as inherently better. Lewis rightly saw that ancient authors often view the world differently than us. By reading their words, we may enter into the way they view the world,...
We are pleased to announce the release of the 2020 issue of the Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal, now in its 25thyear of publication. This year’s issue features the following articles: Kyle Dunham, “The Role of Biblical Creationism in Presuppositional Apologetics”...
DBTS is pleased to announce that you can participate live via video conferencing for two of our summer courses. You can take Marriage and Family Counseling for credit, or you can audit the course at the discounted rate of $200 for the course. You can also audit Ethics...
As we muddle through our Coronacrisis together, the Christian has a level of hopefulness that the unbeliever does not have. This is true on a great many levels: We know that if we die, we have a place prepared for us with Christ (Phil 1:23; John 14:1ff). We know that...
During this COVID-19 pandemic, many of us are faced with uncertainties of life perhaps more than ever before. Churches are not able to gather; families are separated from each other; many people are afraid of contracting this deadly virus; and many are concerned about...
Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary is pleased to announce that Jacob Elwart is officially joining the faculty of DBTS as Assistant Professor of Biblical Counseling after successfully defending his ministry research project for the Doctor of Educational Ministry in...
No doubt the readers of this blog have reached the saturation point on articles about the Coronavirus. Still, some angles of the issue are getting less attention, and I am hopeful that the following points, in no particular order, may be of some value. When the...
With increasing concerns over the spread of the coronavirus through travel and large gatherings, we have decided to adjust the format for the Rice Lectures this year from an in-person lecture to a webinar. Since we will not be meeting in person, the schedule has been...
Though I am not a pastor, I want to stay current with the literature written for pastors. So when I heard that this book won both the 2020 Christianity Today award for church and pastoral leadership and the 2019 Gospel Coalition ministry book of the year award, I...
Recently Dr. Kyle Dunham, Associate Professor of Old Testament at DBTS, published an article in the Bulletin for Biblical Research on the literary structure and theology of Proverbs. The article was entitled “Structure and Theology in Proverbs: Its Function as an...
Singing has evolved dramatically throughout Church history. And like many other cultural phenomena, it is evolving more quickly today. This gives our generation a unique opportunity to study that evolution as it happens. I’m not writing today about organs and pianos...
Dr. John Whitcomb, grand patriarch of biblical creationism and flood geology and long-time professor at Grace Theological Seminary, has passed from this life and into the presence of our Lord Christ. Dr. Whitcomb never taught a course at DBTS (though he did speak in...
Some of my favorite classes at DBTS are the seminars. They tend to be explorative, going deeper into a topic than any normal class would go. For instance, a few semesters ago we had a seminar on Advanced Greek. On one of the weeks we were able to seriously consider...
In my first post, I began to explore the notion of a “missionary mandate” for Israel in the Old Testament. Last time, I considered the background for this idea, namely, the theme of God’s concern for the nations in the Pentateuch. In this post, I survey the...
Coming in at exactly 100 small pages, Donald Whitney’s book is deceptive. Under such a small frame hides a powerful message and one that I have been able to see fruitfully applied in different contexts over the last few years. Around two years ago I was introduced to...
A persistent question concerns whether or not God intended ancient Israel to serve as an emissary proclaiming salvation to the nations. At the recent E3 Conference I considered this debate and surveyed the Old Testament contribution to a biblical theology of mission....
The NT Scriptures frequently mention the Christian’s need for “power” or “strength” from God to obey him, endure persecution, and bear witness for him (Phil 4:13; Col 1:11; 1 Pet 4:11; etc.). This is the case not primarily because of our finitude, but because of our...
The Th.M. program at Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary has as one of its goals the development of scholar-pastors in possession of the research and writing skills necessary to peer-reviewed publication. Recently one of our students, Mike Moses, published a paper...
In preparation for representing the seminary at a conference in Iowa, I have been reflecting on why go to seminary. Why should a future pastor pursue a seminary education? On occasion, I’ll come across a college graduate who suggests that seminary is not for him. When...
I am excited to announce the release today of the 24th volume of the Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal. Articles include: Andrew David Naselli, What the New Testament Teaches About Divorce and Remarriage Ryan E. Meyer, The Interpretation of Matthew 10:23b Timothy E....
Monday, June 17, 2019, Rolland D. McCune went to be with his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Dr. McCune served as professor of Systematic Theology at Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary from 1981 until 2009, during which he also served as President of the Seminary for...
When I was growing up, my Grandfather had a nervous habit of twiddling his thumbs. He was conscious of the habit and used to tell me that he did it because he had a “worry gene.” I don’t know if he was serious about that comment, but I got the sense that he at least...
Around Easter I contributed a post about Paul’s view of the necessity of Jesus' resurrection for salvation. The motivation for that post actually came from a Greek exegesis class as we considered 1 Peter. We were discussing 3:18, and we noted that Peter likewise...
Two years ago at the national meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, anticipation ran high about a scheduled plenary debate on the doctrine of the eternal generation of the Son. The debate fizzled rather spectacularly, however, when two of the three...
I first came across the phrase “overrealized eschatology” in a seminary class on the exegesis of 1 Corinthians. The idea had been suggested by the commentator C. K. Barrett to describe how, in his view, the Corinthian church had mistakenly come to believe that the end...
[This is the final post in the series. See part one, part two, and part three] The Spiritual Gifts for the Church In the spiritual gift lists in the New Testament, some gifts were miraculously endowed and immediately exercised (e.g., healing, tongues, prophesying) and...
[See part one, and part two] The Miracles of Jesus Christ John the Baptist (who did no miracle) was the new voice for God to Israel after the four sterile centuries between the testaments. His message concerned the Kingdom of God and the need to repent and make...
[See Part One Here] NEW TESTAMENT MIRACLES In the decades of the New Testament Gospels there was a huge break-out of miracles (e.g., Matt 4:23-24; 8:16; 9:35; 12:15; 15:30). (Interestingly John the Baptist performed no miracles--John l0:41.) These surrounded mainly...
On occasion through the years one reads or hears of a great revival somewhere in the world, a sudden outburst of the power of the Holy Spirit. It usually includes the testimony of many souls saved as well as miracles of all sorts that seem to parallel those of the...
It’s that time of year when grocery store clerks, kind-hearted relatives, and even complete strangers ask children what they want Santa Claus to bring them. And it’s also a time when Christian parents struggle to help their children answer such people in a way that is...
When Paul entered the Areopagus in Acts 17, he entered into a place where debates over the latest pagan ideas took center stage. It was the first-century equivalent of Facebook. But rather than answering the Athenian fools according to their folly and taking sides in...
Giving Tuesday may be over, but there’s another way you can help DBTS financially this Christmas season and all year round. And it won’t even cost you anything. When you shop on Amazon using the link below, the prices won’t be any different, but Amazon will give DBTS...
Jerome once compared studying the book of Job to grasping an eel. The more you squeeze, he opined, the sooner it escapes your grasp. Many interpreters have wondered similarly at the eloquence and challenge the book offers. While John Baker recognizes Job to be the...
We are often reminded that "there is none good, no not one." And that is true because of God's perfect standard of good. Nevertheless, God wants us to be good, and He is busy about transforming His people into good people. Years ago, the former pastor of our...
Three of our professors will be presenting papers at the Evangelical Theological Society in Denver, Colorado this week. Mark Snoeberger: "Did God Die on the Cross? A Proposal for Harmonizing Divine Impassibility with Christ's Passion" (Tuesday, 9:50–10:30 AM). Kyle...
God is graciously using DBTS to prepare His servants for global ministry. Through His help, we have graduates planting churches in a growing number of foreign fields. Most of these graduates are doing pioneer work in areas that are in desperate need of the gospel and...