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Kenneth Berding — July 09, 2025
This morning, I spent time in Hebrews 12:18-24 during my morning reading in God鈥檚 Word.[1] I found myself particularly attuned to some things I had...
Kenneth Berding — June 13, 2025
Last year, I turned 60. I don鈥檛 know if I count as an old person yet. Granted, when I was twenty, I thought sixty was ancient, but I now realize...
Kenneth Berding — June 09, 2025
Most of you have probably heard of Josephus. An enormous amount of what we know about the history and culture of the Jewish people in and around...
Kevin Lawson — June 06, 2025
The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews...
Inmediatamente, los hermanos enviaron de noche a Pablo y a Silas hasta Berea. Y ellos, habiendo llegado, entraron en la sinagoga de los jud铆os. Y...
William Lane Craig — June 02, 2025
This is a Q&A blog post by our Visiting Scholar in Philosophy, William Lane Craig. Question When did certain believers in the New Testament...
Gary Manning Jr — May 05, 2025
The traditional English translation of John 3:16 begins with the well-known 鈥淔or God so loved the world, that he gave鈥︹ A few modern translations...
Charlie Trimm — April 30, 2025
In two previous posts, I looked at what Michael Heiser taught and which biblical texts he appealed to. In this post, I am reviewing other...
Gary Manning Jr — April 25, 2025
This article was first published at ChurchLeaders. After it was published, the author of the Christianity Today article, Daniel Sulliman, posted...
Kenneth Berding — February 17, 2025
Here are nine things we wouldn鈥檛 know about Paul and his missionary team if Colossians 4 wasn鈥檛 in our Bibles. I鈥檒l list them in the order they...
Kenneth Way — February 05, 2025
鈥淚t is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins鈥 (Heb. 10:4 NIV). This affirmation about the Old Covenant is true because only...
Titus Kennedy — January 10, 2025
The Israelites鈥 exodus from Egypt is a major narrative referenced throughout the Bible, and it鈥檚 known by millions around the world. But many...
Kenneth Way — January 08, 2025
In Hebrews 8:7-8 we read: 鈥淔or if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second. For He finds...
Kenneth Berding — December 27, 2024
I just finished reading Andrew Judd鈥檚 new book, Modern Genre Theory: An Introduction for Biblical Studies. Judd鈥檚 goal was to introduce advanced...
Gary Manning Jr — December 23, 2024
When the magi showed up in Bethlehem, they asked 鈥淲here is he who was born King of the Jews?鈥 (Matt 2:2). Why did this question cause Herod to...
Kevin Lawson — November 08, 2024
My mouth will tell of your righteous acts, of your deeds of salvation all the day, for their number is past my knowledge. With the mighty deeds of...
Mi boca publicar谩 tu justicia Y tus hechos de salvaci贸n todo el d铆a, Aunque no s茅 su n煤mero. Vendr茅 a los hechos poderosos de Jehov谩 el Se帽or; ...
Kevin Lawson — October 25, 2024
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the...
Por esto, mis amados hermanos, todo hombre sea pronto para o铆r, tardo para hablar, tardo para airarse; porque la ira del hombre no obra la...
Kenneth Berding — October 18, 2024
What does the apostle Paul mean when he uses the word 鈥渧eil鈥 in 2 Corinthians 3:12-4:3? For years I didn鈥檛 really understand 2 Corinthians 3:12-4:3...
Kevin Lawson — October 11, 2024
Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in...
Esto, pues, digo y requiero en el Se帽or: que ya no and茅is como los otros gentiles, que andan en la vanidad de su mente, teniendo el entendimiento...
Kenneth Berding — September 18, 2024
This morning I was reading in Exodus 30:11-16. (Yes, a passage that is sandwiched between instructions for the construction of the incense altar...
Kevin Lawson — September 13, 2024
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is...
As铆 que, hermanos, os ruego por las misericordias de Dios, que present茅is vuestros cuerpos en sacrificio vivo, santo, agradable a Dios, que es...