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Joanne Jung — October 01, 2025
“Let’s start a movement!” is what I started my class session with one day in Fall 2025. To a room full of university students, their attention was...
Kyle Strobel — September 24, 2025
For those of you who don’t know, I have entered a new season in my academic life. When I posted the update about my new role as the Director of the...
Kenneth Berding — September 22, 2025
This morning, toward the end of my prayer walk, I waved at three people (all from the same family, I think) who were standing at the top of their...
Kyle Strobel — September 17, 2025
When talking about desert spirituality, John Cassian’s Conferences must be a key resource. In Cassian’s work, we find him and his friend Germanus...
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...
Kevin Lawson — September 12, 2025
But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. I fed you with milk, not solid food,...
De manera que yo, hermanos, no pude hablaros como a espirituales, sino como a carnales, como a niños en Cristo. Os di a beber leche, y no vianda;...
Kyle Strobel — August 22, 2025
When we talk about spiritual formation, the Christian life, or maybe even just growth, we all presuppose a paradigm for what we are talking about....
Kevin Lawson — August 15, 2025
Hear, O sons, a father’s instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight, for I give you good precepts; do not forsake my teaching. When...
Oíd, hijos, la enseñanza de un padre, Y estad atentos, para que conozcáis cordura. Porque os doy buena enseñanza; No desamparéis mi ley. Porque yo...
Kenneth Berding — August 04, 2025
My thoughts wandered this morning on my prayer walk. [1] I kept bringing my mind back to prayer, but my mind was wandering from my very first...
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...
Kenneth Berding — June 27, 2025
Everyone is not equally temptable. One person can be severely tempted by something that another person barely or is not-at-all tempted. Some...
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...
Kevin Lawson — May 30, 2025
In sacrifice and offering you have not delighted, but you have given me an open ear. Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required. Then I...
Sacrificio y ofrenda no te agrada; Has abierto mis oídos; Holocausto y expiación no has demandado. Entonces dije: He aquí, vengo; En el rollo del...
Kenneth Berding — May 27, 2025
What should you do when there is no time to pray? On the surface, this appears to be a simple question, but it turns out to be a bit more...
Kevin Lawson — May 23, 2025
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will...
« Un mandamiento nuevo os doy: Que os améis unos a otros; como yo os he amado, que también os améis unos a otros. En esto conocerán todos que sois...
Kenneth Berding — April 22, 2025
Last night before going to bed I asked my wife an unusual question, “Should I get up at my normal 6am time and take my regular prayer walk followed...
Kevin Lawson — March 28, 2025
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and...
Kevin Lawson — March 14, 2025
We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let each of us please his neighbor for...
Así que, los que somos fuertes debemos soportar las flaquezas de los débiles, y no agradarnos a nosotros mismos. Cada uno de nosotros agrade a su...
Eddie Byun — March 12, 2025
Open my eyes that I may see the wonderful things in Your Law. Psalm 119:18 There is a vital connection that prayer and Scripture have for each...
Joanne Jung — March 07, 2025
I have the privilege of teaching genre-based biblical interpretation at Biola. Here's something I put together that integrates biblical principles...