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Don Sunukjian — February 22, 2023
Woody Hayes, legendary coach at Ohio State (1951-1978), ran an offense which the sportswriters dubbed “three yards and a cloud of dust.” When...
Mick Boersma — February 13, 2023
We here in California have enjoyed a wonderful December-January rain pattern not seen in these parts for 20 years. Our snowpack locally and in the...
Charlie Trimm — February 10, 2023
Many in theological education are calling for more diversity in publishing and research. However, one of the major problems with employing diverse...
Carmen Imes — January 13, 2023
The world's oldest tattoo shop is situated in the Christian Quarter of the Old City in Jerusalem. That in itself may come as a surprise to those...
Betsy Barber — January 09, 2023
It sounded like there was a monstrous beast in the brush behind me, it really did. There I was, sitting on the deck in the balmy Oregon morning,...
Kent Dunnington — November 04, 2022
Based on research over the past two decades, we know much about the virtue of gratitude to other people. Some scholars think that the models...
Scott Rae — October 17, 2022
We live in an unusual mix of both secular and religious cultures in the U.S., unlike the rest of the Western world, which is largely secular and...
Markus Zehnder — October 07, 2022
A Plea Against the Overreach of Civil Government and its Support Through a Submissive Church
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...
Kenneth Way — August 26, 2022
On this day three years ago, I blogged about Psalm 23 from the perspective of ancient Near Eastern studies and my personal battle with the enemy of...
Mark Saucy — July 18, 2022
The following is the final post in a series of eight posts exploring the beauty of gender from a biblical perspective. Read the first post, The...
Kenneth Berding — July 15, 2022
Do you remember the “just say no to drugs” campaign waged a number of years ago? (The slogan “just say no” continues to be used in schools across...
Kenneth Way — July 11, 2022
In this post I want to revisit a topic from my previous post “Faithful Wisdom for Significance and Suffering” by expanding on the message of...
Mark Saucy — June 22, 2022
The following is the fourth post in a series of eight posts exploring the beauty of gender from a biblical perspective. Read the first post, ...
Kenneth Way — May 02, 2022
The wisdom literature of the Hebrew Bible is found in the five poetic books of Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs. This biblical...
Kenneth Berding — April 26, 2022
Four-Views books — or Three-Views or Five-Views — are now so popular that it’s difficult to remember a time when they didn’t exist. Dozens of such...
The Good Book Blog — March 29, 2022
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 — March 28, 2022
I am writing this post with one sort of person in mind: the student who has just discovered the depth and wonders of theology, including Reformed...
Gary Manning Jr — March 24, 2022
In a previous post, Did the Apostle Paul Use Profanity?, I debunked the claim that σκύβαλα (skubala, rubbish or waste), a word used by Paul in...
Erik Thoennes — March 16, 2022
My good friend Jon Lunde does a lot of counseling with people who are going through many kinds of challenges. Through the years, he has learned...
Kenneth Berding — March 15, 2022
How can James write: “But no one can tame the tongue” (James 3:8 NAU) in one breath, and then in another write “this ought not to be so” (James...
John McKinley — February 18, 2022
The normal order of a sentence is 1) subject of an action, 2) action, 3) object of an action. Christians construct many sentences about our...
Kenneth Berding — January 26, 2022
“Which qualifications for leadership have you observed are the least-emphasized when church leaders are appointed to their offices?” This is a...
Carmen Imes — January 07, 2022
I'm excited to introduce a set of resources from GlossaHouse publishers that make language learning a lot more fun: The Illustrated Hebrew Bible...
Gary Manning Jr — December 20, 2021
Luke tells us that Mary “gave birth to her first-born son and wrapped him in swaddling clothes” (Luke 2:7). Later, the angel told the shepherds...