What is Scripture? Is it divine ... Jesus is the central message—God participating in human life, coming near to us, bringing his good news, expressing God’s love for us, dying as our substitute, ...
How To Read Scripture Like Jesus And The Apostles
or at Paul's. Scripture does not describe Jesus whipping out a grammar book on the road to Emmaus. We don't need to be ancient language scholars in order to read Scripture as Jesus and the apostles ...
How Do We Trust the Authority of Scripture?
When we talk about the authority of Scripture, we are saying more than just, "it's an important book." To say Scripture has authority is to state it is a uniquely-inspired book that affects our lives ...
What happens when the good news of therapy and the good news of Scripture conflict?
Washing hands to rid oneself of the fear of germs is the one we’ve all heard of, but these rituals also could look like saying a mantra of “good” words after a curse word pops up in one’s brain or ...
Thoughts on the inspiration of scripture
Someone else might say “a rather simplistic way.” So, I thought it might be an item of interest to explore with you the inspiration of the scriptures in order to address more fully the last two of the ...
Seeing the Big Picture in Scripture
In other words, history viewed through Scripture is really God's story ("His story ... The serpent has sown doubt about the purpose of God's law is it for our good or is it a limitation set up by a ...
What Does the Bible Say About Being Single?
Then the Lord God said, ‘It is not good that the man should be alone.’” We are not told how long Adam lived as a single. However, there are several hints in the narrative. Verse 20 explains how Adam ...
Tuesday: The Nature of Scripture
I think that’s a good way of putting what the Christian life is all about ... One passage, 2 Timothy 3:16-17, perhaps more than any other in the Bible, makes this point: “All Scripture is God-breathed ...
What language does scripture use about the Holy Spirit?
It is quite common for people to make observations about the role or meaning of the Holy Spirit based on aspects of the language Scripture uses ... able to proclaim ‘good news to the poor’ and ‘the ...
Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
A leading biblical scholar's landmark work challenges the historical realism that ... His provocative and ambitious book demonstrates how theology and scripture can remain vital in the twenty-first ...
Paul and Scripture: Extending the Conversation
This book, which grew out of the Society of Biblical Literature’s Paul and Scripture Seminar, explores some of the methodological problems that have arisen during the last few decades of scholarly ...
Friday: Allegiance to Scripture
In this week’s lessons, we see what Jesus’ view of Scripture ... How can we profess to be followers of Jesus Christ and not hold to the same view of Scripture as he did? I have done a good bit of work ...