Posts by Joanne Jung

Joanne Jung

Joanne Jung's interests lie in hermeneutics and spiritual formation. Her research of the English Puritans, specifically their spiritual practices and community, continues to fuel Jung's passion to nurture her students' growth in their knowledge of the Bible and seeing that knowledge impact their spiritual transformation. This passion to see others grow in Christ extends beyond her students, serving those within her local church and community.

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Our Mission in this Moment: Message by Ed Stetzer
Joanne Jung, Ed Stetzer — October 25, 2023
Talbot School of Theology’s new dean, Dr. Ed Stetzer, preached at Biola University’s annual faculty conference that took place in August of 2023. Listen to it here.
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Jesus Was a Follower
Joanne Jung, Rick Langer — June 06, 2023
The New Testament leaves no doubt as to the deity of Christ. He is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. He is the creator of all...
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Leading as a Yokemate
Joanne Jung, Rick Langer — March 03, 2023
In our previous post, “It’s Lonely at the Top,” we addressed the external and internal challenges of leadership: anxiety and imposter syndrome. The...
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It’s Lonely at the Top
Joanne Jung, Rick Langer — March 01, 2023
I (Joanne) was recently writing a follow-up piece on Rick Langer’s and my book, The Call to Follow that addressed the importance of leading as a...
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The Unfair Advantage or a Messed-Up Life
Joanne Jung — December 28, 2022
As the fall 2022 semester was coming to an end, I reflected on what my students learned over the past 14 weeks in our Biblical Interpretation and...
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The Strange Tale of How Nicholas Herman Found Meaning in Life
Joanne Jung, Rick Langer — October 31, 2022
In our previous posts we have talked about what following really means and why it really matters. But sometimes, a worked example is worth a thousand words. So, consider the story of Nicholas Herman.
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When The Following Gets Tough
Joanne Jung, Rick Langer — October 28, 2022
At this point, faithful following may suddenly sound both daunting and difficult. Biblically, it appears to be both.
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Was Jesus a follower?
Joanne Jung, Rick Langer — October 26, 2022
As we began to study leading and following in the New Testament, we were startled by how much language there is about following, modeling and imitation, and how comparatively rarely leadership terms appear. Even more startling are Jesus' own statements about himself in the Gospel of John.
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A Book on Followership, Really?
Joanne Jung, Rick Langer — October 24, 2022
“I’m writing a book on followership?” “You are writing a book on what???” We can hardly count the number of times each of us have had this conversation in the past two years.
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The Right-Side-Up Kingdom
Joanne Jung, Eric Oldenburg — September 09, 2022
How We Think and Talk About the Kingdom of God Jesus did not come to turn the world upside down. How does that statement strike you? Does it...
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#howtostophate: Praying through Psalm 139
Joanne Jung — May 07, 2021
The following is the fifth post in a series on how to stop hate from a biblical perspective. Join The Good Book Blog and Professor of Biblical and...
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#howtostophate: “To Move Forward, Forgive”
Joanne Jung — April 30, 2021
The following is the fourth post in a series on how to stop hate from a biblical perspective. Read The Good Book Blog series written by Professor...
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#howtostophate: “Extending friendship to a stranger”
Joanne Jung — April 23, 2021
The following is the third post in a series on how to stop hate from a biblical perspective. Join The Good Book Blog and Professor of Biblical and...
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#howtostophate: “Using the Caption: ‘Made in the Image of God’”
Joanne Jung — April 16, 2021
The following is the second post in a series on how to stop hate from a biblical perspective. Join The Good Book Blog and Professor of Biblical...
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#howtostophate: Identifying Counterfeit Control
Joanne Jung — April 09, 2021
The following is the first post in a series on how to stop hate from a biblical perspective. Join The Good Book Blog and Professor of Biblical and...
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Talbot’s Virtual New Student Welcome
Joanne Jung — September 02, 2020
On the evening of August 27 at 7 p.m. PT,Talbot School of Theology held its first virtual New Student Welcome. Dr Daniel Kim emceed the Zoom event,...
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Lightbulb moment
Joanne Jung — May 12, 2020
One of the greatest rewards as a professor is seeing lightbulbs come on in a student’s mind. When a question is so pressing and the student feels...
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Spring 2020 Baccalaureate Ceremony on Facebook Live
Joanne Jung — May 12, 2020
Spring 2020 was unlike any other in the history of Biola University and Talbot School of Theology. COVID–19 disrupted many of the much-anticipated...
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A Refreshed Outlook and a Refashioned Course
Three Philosophical Shifts Helped Me Design a Better Learning Experience
Joanne Jung — April 20, 2020
From its debut in 2017, Didaktikos* has included an article on pedagogy in every issue. I enjoyed contributing an article on pedagogy for online...
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Pencil or Pen?
Joanne Jung — March 09, 2020
A fascinating series of events that started with an email from my former colleague, Mickey Klink, led to doing an episode on the Doctrine and...
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Do you have binah? Understanding discernment.
Joanne Jung — May 15, 2019
A student sat in my office last week. It was the week before finals. The conversation started with concerns over the grades and should have only...
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The Not-so-Simple ABCs
Joanne Jung — April 08, 2019
After reading a work by William Perkins, “A Garden of Spiritual Flowers” on Sabbath exercises and noting the “Threefold Alphabet of Rules...
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Secretly Recorded Prayers of a Puritan Pastor
Joanne Jung — April 03, 2019
You are invited to step into this semester’s Puritan theology class. This particular course is taught in a hybrid format where students complete...
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Calvin Meets Haiku
Joanne Jung — February 28, 2019
You are invited to step into this semester’s Puritan theology class. We explore the theological roots of Protestant spiritual formation by first...
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Hunger for Sacred Community, Part 3: The Deepest Longings of Our Souls
Joanne Jung — December 05, 2017
We are made in the image of God, an image that is tarnished yet has survived the fall. Who we are is intrinsically connected to who God is. Our spiritual depth, our being able to know ourselves, is linked to knowing God and who He is. This is where God’s word comes into the equation, because the Bible is one of the primary ways God discloses himself—what He’s done, what He’s doing, and what He promises to do. Spiritual depth is far more than how much you know the Scriptures or even how well you know it. It is knowing the Word of God and the God of the Word, the book and its author. We come away with a better, more thought-filled understanding of what He is like, what He says, what He expects of those who bear His image, and why, and how He empowers those who follow His son Jesus ...