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Kenneth Berding — November 19, 2025
Not long ago, I helped a group of young adults memorize the famous verses below using hand motions. Perhaps you can do the same. (Adapt to...
Kenneth Berding — November 03, 2025
How can I grow to love God’s Word more than I currently do? One night recently, I had trouble falling asleep. So I got up and spent three hours in...
The Good Book Blog — October 31, 2025
The following blog post is a meditation by former Talbot School of Theology adjunct professor Joy Mosbarger, initially published in October 2012....
Kyle Strobel — October 29, 2025
I will often use the language of “true self” and “false self,” because I think it gets at something important. The problem is that others use this...
Kevin Lawson — October 10, 2025
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and...
Si yo hablase lenguas humanas y angélicas, y no tengo amor, vengo a ser como metal que resuena, o címbalo que retiñe. Y si tuviese profecía, y...
Gary Manning Jr — October 08, 2025
In season 2 of the popular television series The Chosen, the apostle Simon the Zealot is depicted as a former assassin from the Zealot party — with...
Kenneth Berding — October 03, 2025
How many times have I heard someone say, “That’s just wrong!” when the action being discussed isn’t wrong in a moral sense, but is simply unwise...
William Lane Craig — September 29, 2025
This is a Q&A blog post by Talbot School of Theology’s Visiting Scholar in Philosophy, William Lane Craig. Question I'm not a Christian...
Kenneth Berding — September 15, 2025
Did you know that the Bible tells us that there are certain things we shouldn’t even talk about? The apostle Paul writes in Ephesians 5: “But...
Kenneth Berding — September 05, 2025
This morning, while reading in 1 Timothy 4:11-16 (in Greek), I was drawn to a surprising cluster of intense verbs that the apostle Paul uses to...
Kenneth Way — August 08, 2025
In our previous post, we discussed faith in Gideon’s story. Here in Part Two, we discuss the remaining three individuals from Judges who are...
Kenneth Way — August 06, 2025
Hebrews 11:32-34 mentions four infamous individuals from the book of Judges (ordered Gideon, Barak, Samson, and Jephthah). [1] But these four are...
Gary Manning Jr — July 30, 2025
In John 4:9, the Samaritan woman is surprised that Jesus asked her for water from the well. The reason for her surprise is that “Jews do not ____...
Kenneth Berding — July 21, 2025
God trains us through waiting. On the day I started writing this post, I was waiting for God to answer a prayer. You see, Trudi and I have been...
Kevin Lawson — July 18, 2025
I will extol you, my God and King, and bless your name forever and ever. Every day I will bless you and praise your name forever and ever. Great...
Kenneth Berding — July 09, 2025
This morning, I spent time in Hebrews 12:18-24 during my morning reading in God’s Word.[1] I found myself particularly attuned to some things I had...
Kenneth Berding — June 13, 2025
Last year, I turned 60. I don’t know if I count as an old person yet. Granted, when I was twenty, I thought sixty was ancient, but I now realize...
Kenneth Berding — June 09, 2025
Most of you have probably heard of Josephus. An enormous amount of what we know about the history and culture of the Jewish people in and around...
Kevin Lawson — June 06, 2025
The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews...
Inmediatamente, los hermanos enviaron de noche a Pablo y a Silas hasta Berea. Y ellos, habiendo llegado, entraron en la sinagoga de los judíos. Y...
William Lane Craig — June 02, 2025
This is a Q&A blog post by our Visiting Scholar in Philosophy, William Lane Craig. Question When did certain believers in the New Testament...
Gary Manning Jr — May 05, 2025
The traditional English translation of John 3:16 begins with the well-known “For God so loved the world, that he gave…” A few modern translations...
Charlie Trimm — April 30, 2025
In two previous posts, I looked at what Michael Heiser taught and which biblical texts he appealed to. In this post, I am reviewing other...
Gary Manning Jr — April 25, 2025
This article was first published at ChurchLeaders. After it was published, the author of the Christianity Today article, Daniel Sulliman, posted...