‘Til Passions Cool Do Us Part? Arranged-Marriage vs. Love-Marriage
Here is an article I never figured I’d write. I’m a Caucasian American of Scottish and Irish Descent raised in New England by a Southern mother. I am a romantic…
Hermione Granger, Violence, & Basic Sense
Actress Emma Watson, who earned her rights to shape public opinion and policy through her arduous educational endeavors playing a smarty pants witch, named Herione Granger, in the Harry Potter…
Who Put the “Should” in Proverbs 22:6, Part 2 (Video)
In this lesson we finish our discussion of the possible renderings of Proverbs 22:6 with a particular emphasis of the true nature of proverbs. They are NOT divine promises, but…
Who Put the “Should” in Proverbs 22:6? Part 1
In this first installment of “Who Put the “Should” in Proverbs 22:6? I begin to engage the danger of messing with texts that so many use as an anchor of…
The Unforgivable Sin: Have You Committed It? Part 2 (Video)
In part 2 of this lesson, we move to consider people who either did or may have committed the unforgivable sin, often paying for it with their lives. The New…
The Unforgivable Sin: Have You Committed it? Part 1 (Video)
This is an important lesson, if I may judge by the reactions I get to this content whenever I present it. So many are afraid because they do not have…
A Lot Worse Than Lot, Part 2 (Video)
In this lesson, we conclude our analysis of the horrific concubine story in Judges 19. We ask ourselves the question, “Who pushed the Girl out?” & “Why was she chopped…
A Lot Worse Than Lot, Part 1 (Video)
The story of the murdered concubine in Judges 19 is a horror. Nothing that I say about it will change that. What I can offer, however, is a corrective to…
Reading Genesis Like a Pagan, Part 6: I Want to Sucker-punch Genesis (Video)
This is the final of six lessons I’ve done on Reading Genesis like a pagan… which means reading Genesis not with a modern scientific lens, but with an understanding that…
Reading Genesis Like a Pagan, Part 5 (Video)
In this lesson we discuss the details of what a scientific vs. Ancient Near Eastern Reading of Genesis 1-11 means with a particular focus on Genesis 1:1-3. We consider three…
Reading Genesis Like a Pagan Part 4 (Video)
In this session we unpack the importance of Kingdom Establishment paradigms from the Ancient Near East, as well as a subset of that pattern that I have labeled Helderkampf (Hero…
My Review of Inductive Bible Study by Richard Alan Fuhr Jr. and Andreas J. Köstenberger
Shared with Permission from Criswell Theological Review Inductive Bible Study by Richard Alan Fuhr Jr. and Andreas J. Köstenberger. Nashville: B&H Academic, 2016, 371 pp., $34.00, Hardbound In Inductive Bible…
Reading Genesis Like a Pagan, Part 3 (Video)
We continue our discussion on the importance of Reading Genesis for what it is… a worldview document of the creation of the order of the world. It is curtailed to…
Reading Genesis Like a Pagan, Part 2 (Video)
In this lesson we continue our discussion on the importance of reading Genesis as a message to those struggling within a world drowning in Pagan worldview. Its imagery is borrowed…
In a World Where You Can Be Anything, Be a Donkey
In 1987, when I was 20 years old, 175 lbs of tight muscle with a full head of hair and a lot less sense, I was sent to a phone…
Reading Genesis Like a Pagan, Part 1 (Video)
In this video we begin to unpack what I regard as a better way to read Genesis than we typically find in Christian circles. Genesis was written to accomplish many…
My Review of The Good Shepherd: The Thousand Year Journey from Psalm 23 to the New Testament
Shared with Permission from Criswell Theological Review The Good Shepherd: A Thousand Year Journey from Psalm 23 to the New Testament. By Kenneth E. Bailey. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2014,…
The Gospel & Loving Hurting & Confused Individual Weapons of Mass Destruction
Christians today stand at the collision point of a big picture perspective of gospel and church and an individual personal perspective of winning the lost to Christ.…
What is a GOD Anyway?
One of the first pieces of advice I give to people who are interested in engaging the original languages of the Bible is, “Never forget, it’s not just a different…
What in the Name of all Things Holy is a Triune God?
Can we all just stop pretending and admit that the very idea of the Trinity is weird? We describe the God of the Bible as a Triune God. This comes…