What if we spent as much time and money on Bible study as we do our hobbies?
The call to faith and the act of salvation comes entirely from God; faith commitment is both active and passive. Our part is the surrender of the will, the open acceptance of what God has done. It is...
Indeed, the Bible has been cast adrift from its moorings and left to float on a sea of modern relativity. The play of meanings in the stories is seen to be open-ended, and modern readers must construc...
Our task is to decipher the meaning of the historical-theological text in biblical narrative, not to reconstruct the original event.
God’s justice transcends human frailty, and our duty is to await his answers. Rather than assume the right to determine the laws of God’s created order (Crenshaw calls this Titanism), we must humbly s...
Imprecatory psalms. Imprecatory psalms (Ps 12; 35; 52; 57—59; 69; 70; 83; 109; 137; 140) are usually lament psalms where the writer’s bitterness and desire for vindication are especially predominant....
In AD 57 in the city of Corinth, the Apostle Paul wrote the greatest book ever penned in human history: his letter to the Roman church.
They have been fulfilled in Christ, so we must determine their theological purposes and apply them to current situations. We need holiness and a proper relationship with God just as they did, and the...
We produce nothing but our act of faith.
The deep meaning of any text is a buried treasure; all the riches are waiting under the surface. If we learned there was gold deep under our backyard, nothing would stop us from getting the tools we n...
The right hand in Scripture symbolizes power and authority
God created the world in the way that he saw fit, and humans should not question the divinely appointed order. All wisdom literature, not just Job, develops this theme (e.g., Is 40:28- 29). Human bein...
Jesus said, Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them (Mt 5:17). Yet Paul could say, Christ is the end of the law (Rom 10:4)...