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Saturday, January 31, 2026

No King in Israel (44)

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English translations of the Bible call the tribe made up of the children of Benjamin either Benjamites or Benjaminites. Literally, the Heb...
Friday, January 30, 2026

Too Hot to Handle: Virtual Fellowship

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In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. A few days ago, I watched a popular YouTube video ...
Thursday, January 29, 2026

Don’t Forget What You Never Knew

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“Now I want to remind you , although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed...
Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Death Stopped with Moses and Other Strange Interpretations

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Romans 5 is a fine example of the importance of following a writer’s thought flow when interpreting the Bible. Say you do your morning r...
Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Christ Formed in You

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“… my little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you !” Context is key to discovering t...
Monday, January 26, 2026

Anonymous Asks (390)

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“Are religious icons idols?” For readers with limited exposure to “high church” traditions, an icon is an artistic depiction of Bible pe...
Sunday, January 25, 2026

The Commentariat Speaks (36)

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We’ve done a few posts over the last couple of years about how the systematic theology we adopt (or uncritically absorb) affects not only ...
Saturday, January 24, 2026

No King in Israel (43)

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Years ago, my aunt appeared at her mother’s door only a few days into her honeymoon, wailing about her “impossible” new husband. My grandm...
Friday, January 23, 2026

Too Hot to Handle: Beatles Buddhism

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In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. Over the last 20 years we’ve seen all kinds of pon...
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Thursday, January 22, 2026

True Revolutionaries

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Welcome back to our two-part treatment of the (post-)modern attitude to truth. Last week , we were observing that the concept of an act...
Wednesday, January 21, 2026

In the Wilderness of Judah

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Well over two-thirds of the Bible’s 150 psalms have titles or introductory notes that scholars refer to as superscriptions . These provide...
Tuesday, January 20, 2026

On Authorship

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In the course of studying and writing my way through more than fourteen different books of the Bible chapter by chapter and verse by verse...
Monday, January 19, 2026

Anonymous Asks (389)

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“When did the Church begin?” Two answers to this question are common among evangelicals. The Dispensational answer is “At Pentecost in t...
Sunday, January 18, 2026

A Quick-and-Dirty Theology of Sleep

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For over a decade, I have lived with a sleep disorder that usually limits me to between two-and-a-half and four hours of uninterrupted res...
Saturday, January 17, 2026

No King in Israel (42)

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One of the more interesting features of this final, very unsavory episode in Judges is that while it gives us both the spiritual nadir and...
Friday, January 16, 2026

Too Hot to Handle: The Christian Nation

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In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. In America is not a Christian nation : The dark ca...
Thursday, January 15, 2026

The Trouble with the Truth

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Some years ago I picked up a volume compiled by Walter Truett Anderson entitled The Truth About the Truth . It was a collection of essays,...
Wednesday, January 14, 2026

The Commentariat Speaks (35)

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The Google Books Ngram Viewer is a great little online tool for discovering when any word or phrase began to appear in the 22 million Engl...
Tuesday, January 13, 2026

The Good Portion

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The vast majority of people Jesus healed went home to family and friends to tell the tale, though the Lord would often instruct them not t...
Monday, January 12, 2026

Anonymous Asks (388)

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“What is the Synoptic Problem?” The word ‘synoptic’ refers to the gospels written by Matthew, Mark and Luke, coming from the Latin synop...