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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...
Kenneth Berding — February 17, 2025
Here are nine things we wouldn’t know about Paul and his missionary team if Colossians 4 wasn’t in our Bibles. I’ll list them in the order they...
Kenneth Way — February 05, 2025
“It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins” (Heb. 10:4 NIV). This affirmation about the Old Covenant is true because only...
Titus Kennedy — January 10, 2025
The Israelites’ exodus from Egypt is a major narrative referenced throughout the Bible, and it’s known by millions around the world. But many...
Kenneth Way — January 08, 2025
In Hebrews 8:7-8 we read: “For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second. For He finds...
Kenneth Berding — December 27, 2024
I just finished reading Andrew Judd’s new book, Modern Genre Theory: An Introduction for Biblical Studies. Judd’s goal was to introduce advanced...
Gary Manning Jr — December 23, 2024
When the magi showed up in Bethlehem, they asked “Where is he who was born King of the Jews?” (Matt 2:2). Why did this question cause Herod to...
Kevin Lawson — November 08, 2024
My mouth will tell of your righteous acts, of your deeds of salvation all the day, for their number is past my knowledge. With the mighty deeds of...
Mi boca publicará tu justicia Y tus hechos de salvación todo el día, Aunque no sé su número. Vendré a los hechos poderosos de Jehová el Señor; ...
Kevin Lawson — October 25, 2024
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the...
Por esto, mis amados hermanos, todo hombre sea pronto para oír, tardo para hablar, tardo para airarse; porque la ira del hombre no obra la...
Kenneth Berding — October 18, 2024
What does the apostle Paul mean when he uses the word “veil” in 2 Corinthians 3:12-4:3? For years I didn’t really understand 2 Corinthians 3:12-4:3...
Kevin Lawson — October 11, 2024
Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in...
Esto, pues, digo y requiero en el Señor: que ya no andéis como los otros gentiles, que andan en la vanidad de su mente, teniendo el entendimiento...
Kenneth Berding — September 18, 2024
This morning I was reading in Exodus 30:11-16. (Yes, a passage that is sandwiched between instructions for the construction of the incense altar...
Kevin Lawson — September 13, 2024
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is...
Así que, hermanos, os ruego por las misericordias de Dios, que presentéis vuestros cuerpos en sacrificio vivo, santo, agradable a Dios, que es...
Kevin Lawson — August 30, 2024
And when a great crowd was gathering and people from town after town came to him, he said in a parable, “A sower went out to sow his seed. And as...