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…
Did Jesus Sit in the Seat of Sinners?[1]
I knew a man who returned to Christ after decades of drugs and dealing, trafficking girls, violence, theft, and homelessness. Raised in church, he came back on fire for Jesus,…
Chatty God
Galileo said, “Mathematics is the language with which God wrote the Universe.” In Genesis 1:3ff, God said, “Let there be… and there was…” Psalm 19:1-4 praises, “The heavens declare the…
The Divine Gift of Enduring Shame
When I was growing up, if you said “trigger” everyone thought about guns or Roy Roger’s horse… maybe shooting guns while riding Roy Roger’s horse. Today if you say “trigger”…
Shamefully Shaming Shame
Shame is bad… right?! Our whole society today cries how terrible it is. Only people who shame others should be made to feel shame. So shame must be bad, right?!!…
Can I Get a Witness: The Call to Be Salt and Light in a Dark and Rotten World
As a teenager I worked in a grocery store doing anything that needed doing, whether bagging, cashiering, stocking produce, or even painting the kick spaces on the shelves. How many…
Take My Daughters, Please, Part 2 (Video)
In this video, we conclude our discussion of Lot’s supposed offer of his daughters to save two male strangers. Things are not as they appear to a modern reader. …
Weird Things Like Revelation & The Second Coming
It shouldn’t be too long into joining a church that you hear something that strikes you as rather peculiar—The Second Coming of Jesus Christ… not to mention whispers of an…
My Review of Interpreting The Wisdom Books by Edward M. Curtis
Shared with Permission from Criswell Theological Review Interpreting The Wisdom Books: An Exegetical Handbook by Edward M. Curtis as part of the Handbooks for Old Testament Exegesis series edited by…
My Review of Luke-Acts in Modern Interpretation edited by Stanley E. Porter and Ron C. Fay
Shared with Permission from Criswell Theological Review. Luke-Acts in Modern Interpretation in the Milestones in New Testament Scholarship series. Edited by Stanley E. Porter and Ron C. Fay. Kregal Academic,…
My Review of The Art of Bible Translation by Robert Alter
Shared with permission from Criswell Theological Review The Art of Bible Translation. By Robert Alter. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019, 129 pp., $24.95, Hardback In The Art of Bible Translation,…
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,…