Take My Daughters, Please, Part 2 (Video)
This lesson concludes the discussion of Lot's supposed offer of his daughters to save two male strangers. Things are not what they appear to a modern reader.
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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 equally peculiar book for which this events takes center stage—Revelation. For pagans, who dominated the globe from earliest...
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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 David M. Howard, Jr. Grand Rapids: Kregel Academic, 2017, 204 pp., $21.99 Paperback. In Interpreting The Wisdom Books:...
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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, 2021, 398 pp., $31.99, Hardcover In Luke-Acts in Modern Interpretation,( 2021, Kregle Academic) Stanley E. Porter (PhD, University...
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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, Robert Alter (PhD Harvard University, 1962), Professor of the Graduate School and emeritus professor of Hebrew and comparative...
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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, 283 pp., $24.00, Paperback In The Good Shepherd: A Thousand Year Journey from Psalm 23 to the New...
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My Review of Biblical Critical Theory by Christopher Watkin
Shared with Permission from Criswell Theological Review Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible’s Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture. By Christopher Watkin. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Academic, 2022, 648 pp., $39.99, Hardcover In Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible’s Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life...
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My Review of A Ransom for Many by John J. R. Lee, and Daniel Brueske
Shared with Permission from Criswell Theological Review A Ransom for Many: Mark 10:45 As Key to the Gospel. By John J. R. Lee and Daniel Brueske.Bellingham: Lexham Press, 2023, 203 pp., $24.99, PaperbackIn A Ransom for Many: Mark 10:45 As Key to the Gospel, John J. R. Lee...
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Zipporah’s Raw Deal (Video)
It is common to portray Zipporah as a difficult and angry woman. I believe this is because of a rather poor understanding of the circumcision scene in Exodus 4. An equally poor translation has Zipporah disgusted with the fact that she has to step in to save Moses...
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Christians Hope in the Face of Death
Today we have a guest blogger. Amy Roberts Kinder has Master of Arts in Biblical Studies with a concentration in the Old Testament from Ashland Theological Seminary, and is a graduate of Northpoint Bible College presently located in Haverhill, MA. She is presently She has blessed us with...
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Weird Thoughts about the Holy Spirit
This article is for inclusion in a one month devotional for new believers called, “So You’ve Accepted Jesus.” It is almost finished. A Tip for Reading: You may want to read through at first just taking it all in, without looking everything up. Then it would be beneficial...
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A Still Small Voice in the Cool of the Day Part 2 of 2 (Video)
In part two of A Still Small Voice in the Cool of the Day we conclude our discussion on two often overlook storm theophanies, one in Genesis 3 and the other in 1 Kings 19. (FYI: I highly recommend the works of Gregory Beale. I studied with him...
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A Still Small Voice in the Cool of the Day Part 1 of 2 (Video)
In this video, I begin a discussion about two overlooked storm theophanies in the Bible, one in Genesis 3 when God comes on in judgement against Adam and Eve, and the serpent, and the other in 1 Kings 19 when God comes to appoint Elijah as judge in...
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I’d Like to Sucker Punch Genesis 1-11
I’ve found myself in a bit of a quandary when trying to help other believers see Genesis the way that I have come to see it after years of studying culturally relevant Ancient Near Eastern creation and flood stories, culminating in my Doctoral Dissertation on the subject. You see,...
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I Hate Father’s Day—a Tribute to Fathers
I was at a low place one Father’s Day when I’d first begun my PhD. I did not know it at the time, but I was six months down my four year road with sleep apnea, which came on suddenly after a severe illness and ended just as...
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Without a Vision People are Sure to Misinterpret Proverbs 29:18 (Video)
Proverbs 29:18 is a two part proverb, but few quote the whole thing... thus they misunderstand it meaning completely.
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Jesus as Foreigner at the Well (Part 2) [Video]
In this lesson we turn to a detailed analysis of how the Scriptures develop the well story in the lives of Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Ruth, and Saul. We also consider specifically how these stories inform our reading of John 4.
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Jesus as Foreigner at the Well (Part One) [Video]
There are six “Well Stories” in Scripture. These are variations on a romantic tale where the will of God is worked out through His saints. The five Well Stories in the Old Testament provide the literary background for properly reading John 4 where Jesus encounters the woman at...
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The Gospel & Loving Hurting & Confused Individual Weapons of Mass Destruction
[This is an article in flux, email response are appreciated. I don’t present a perfect solution, but try to describe a perfect tension.] 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...
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The Whole of the Holy, Part 4 (Video)
God is holy in His essence as true God. When we meet Him as He intends us to do, we become holy to Him, isolated to His service. There are practical rules for belonging to the holy and when those rules are imbibed into our souls we begin...
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