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Category: Christian Education

  • Joanne Jung — 

    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...

  • Joanne Jung, Rick Langer — 

    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.

  • The Good Book Blog — 

    There is a growing discussion around the need for “Pastor Theologians,” those shepherds who want to be moored deeply to Christianity’s theological...

  • Kenneth Berding — 

    I know that quite a few teachers read this blog, so let me offer a suggestion for one way to stay fresh as a teacher. Here is my suggestion: Make...

  • Octavio Esqueda — 

    El cristianismo tiene a la verdad como el eje central de su mensaje y práctica. La verdad para los cristianos es mucho más que aseveraciones...

  • Octavio Esqueda — 

    Últimamente he escuchado con bastante frecuencia a muchos líderes cristianos afirmar que la fe en Cristo es lo más importante de todo y que todo lo...

  • Octavio Esqueda — 

    La frase “Jesús es el Señor” puede considerarse como el fundamento principal del cristianismo. Estas palabras indican un reconocimiento sobre la...

  • Octavio Esqueda — 

    Hay experiencias que nos cambian la perspectiva de la vida y otras que son memorables por ser únicas o especiales. En mi caso, una de estas...

  • Octavio Esqueda — 

    El amor a Dios y al prójimo es el cimiento esencial del cristianismo. Es imposible ser un verdadero seguidor de Cristo si el amor a Dios y a los...

  • Octavio Esqueda — 

    El Dr. Leroy Ford (1922-2012) fue uno de los educadores más importantes del siglo pasado. Tuvo un ministerio muy productivo como pastor, escritor y...

  • Octavio Esqueda — 

    El poder es siempre el común denominador en cualquier situación de abuso ya sea físico, verbal o emocional. Todos los abusadores actúan de esa...

  • Octavio Esqueda — 

    El cántico de María conocido como el Magnificat es uno de los salmos de alabanza más bellos de las Sagradas Escrituras. Este cántico tiene una...

  • Octavio Esqueda — 

    José, es el personaje olvidado de la navidad. Obviamente en la navidad celebramos el nacimiento de Jesús, el Cristo o Mesías, quien vino a este...

  • Amar a Dios y a las personas

    Love God and people

    Octavio Esqueda — 

    “¿Papi, me puedes enseñar la educación cristiana? ¡Quiero saber el doctorado en educación cristiana!” Estas fueron las palabras que mi hija de seis...

  • David Talley — 

    David Talley reflects on the life of his friend and prayer warrior, Min Ja Yun.

  • Octavio Esqueda — 

    La integridad es el fundamento esencial de un seguidor de Cristo. Nuestro carácter define, proclama y representa nuestra fe en un Dios santo a...

  • Kenneth Berding — 

    Can you chant by memory through all of beginning Greek grammar in 75 seconds?[1] Everyone in my Greek classes can do it in 90 seconds, but...

  • Life of Jesus, Part One

    Overview of "Life of Jesus" DVD

    Matthew Williams — 

    The “Life of Jesus” in the Deeper Connections Bible study series is the fourth DVD and participant’s guide to be released by Rose/Hendrickson...

  • Kevin Lawson — 

    Baptism, Communion, and Confirmation in the Reformation Movement: Impact on Ministry with Children in Churches Today [i] , Part II As I shared...

  • Baptism, Communion, and Confirmation in the Reformation Movement

    Impact on Ministry with Children in Churches Today, Part I

    Kevin Lawson — 

    Baptism, Communion, and Confirmation in the Reformation Movement: Impact on Ministry with Children in Churches Today [i] , Part I As most of you...

  • The Good Book Blog — 

    Dr. Kevin Lawson (Professor of Educational Studies at Talbot School of Theology) recently co-edited and published Infants and Children in the Church: Five Views on Theology and Ministry in partnership with Dr. Adam Harwood (Associate Professor of Theology at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary). We wanted to learn more about this book, so we had Dr. Lawson respond to some questions ...

  • Edik Borysov — 

    Christian Megapolis is conducting a project, which considers the following two issues: (1) the nature of doctoral education and (2) actual national Ukrainian doctors and doctoral students as living, interesting personalities. To this end we invite you to enjoy this interview of Eduard Borysov by Rostislav Tkachenko ...

  • Gary McIntosh — 

    A while ago, I received an email from Ed Stetzer asking if I knew when spiritual gifts inventories first became prevalent. I gave him a quick reflection based on what I remembered at that time, but his question created a curiosity that sent me on a longer investigation. While this is certainly not the final word on the question, it may serve as a beginning point for other researchers. Here is what I have discovered ...

  • Karin Stetina — 

    About half the world is made up of women. Books such as Half the Sky (Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn) and Half the Church (Carolyn Custis James) highlight how important it is for the Evangelical church to consider God’s vision both locally and globally for women. In the light of the Gospel, the church during the Reformation also wrestled with women’s place, in the church, marriage, and society. While the Protestant Reformers did not set out to define women’s roles, as they fleshed out their theological convictions of sola Scriptura and the priesthood of all believers, they were faced with addressing the question of how women are to participate in the church and the world as both receivers and conveyors of the Gospel. Did the Reformers’ responses result in “constraining” women by moving their ministry from the convent to the home (as Jane Dempsey Douglass argues), or did it provide them with “new dignity” (as Stephen Nichols suggests)? The answer to that question is complicated ...

  • Kenneth Berding — 

    About ten years ago, some of my fellow professors and I began to observe a trend among undergraduate Biblical & Theological Studies majors at Biola. We noticed that freshman students arrived on campus eager and ready to learn, but at some point during their sophomore year, these Biblical Studies majors became aware that on average they generally knew more theology than did the average Biola student ...