Dan Wallace on his blog, The Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts, reviewed the excellent book by Craig Blomberg, Can We Still Believe the Bible. In his book Blomberg was addressing Bart Ehrman’s comments on various textual readings… Read More ›
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Salvation and suffering: Both a gift from God?
I am preaching through Paul’s epistle to the Philippians and this past Sunday we looked at 1:27-30. Paul is writing from prison (1:7, 13, 17) and the Philippians had sent a love offering to support Paul and the gospel ministry… Read More ›
Recapturing our first love: An examination of πρῶτος
The church at Ephesus was commended by the Lord Jesus in Revelation 2:2-3 for four things. He commends them for their faithful service (2:2a), for rejecting evil men (2:2b), for exposing false apostles (2:2c), and for their steadfast endurance (2:3)…. Read More ›
Dragged to salvation? An examination of John 6:44
One of the most prevalent examples of a Greek word study gone wrong is what James Barr called, “illegitimate totality transfer.” In this example, the entire semantic range of a term is applied in the use of that term in… Read More ›
Timely advice when tempted
This morning’s Morning and Evening by Charles H. Spurgeon is so practical and yet so simple. But when we are tempted we can often lose our minds and be swept up and carried away to such a degree that we… Read More ›
“If we confess our sins…” – A fresh look at ὁμολογέω in 1 John 1:9
One of the most comforting verses for the Christian is the promise found in 1 John 1:9 where we read, “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all… Read More ›
The church: a called out people? or ἐκκλησία: a case study in root fallacy
The Greek term translated into English as “church” is ἐκκλησία. It is used 114 times in the New Testament and fives uses refer to something other than the church of Jesus Christ. There has been some debate about the etymology… Read More ›
Tyndale Fellowship Conference 2018
Every summer Tyndale House holds this conference. I can’t wait till next summer when I will be able to attend. Check out the seminars, papers, and who will be presenting! https://sites.google.com/view/tyndalefellowship
The wisdom of Mr. Spock
In the original Star Trek Series, Spock is driven to return to Vulcan to take a wife, a woman named T’Pring who was promised to him from boyhood. When he arrives, he finds that she is not what he thought… Read More ›
Raised saints at the cross or Sunday morning? Matthew 27:50-53
Matthew 27 contains one of the strangest events in the New Testament. As Jesus Christ hung on the cross, he “cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up his spirit” (27:50). And as he died, several startling events… Read More ›
God Incarnate 