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August 2017

August 28, 2017

Why Did the Book of Revelation Outlast Other Early Christian Apocalypses?

Revelation's theology stood out from the crowd in a time when sloppy language about God...

December 2016

December 09, 2016

My 5 Favorite Books of 2016

I'm always willing to recommend a good book if it is, in fact, good. Here's...

September 2016

September 10, 2016

Answering Tough Texts of the Bible

Trevin Wax and I host a podcast called Word Matters, which seeks to help Christians...

August 2016

August 12, 2016

Did New Testament Writers Understand the Trinity?

A few ways in which NT writers wrestled with the Trinity, and how Scripture helped...

July 2016

July 28, 2016

A Brief Case for Reading Scripture with a Trinitarian Lens

The Trinity's presence and actions in Scripture, if nothing else, gives us a clear way...

June 2016

June 16, 2016

What the “Gospel of Jesus’s Wife” Teaches Us about Manuscript Evidence

Scientific methods can be unforgiving friends, but God's Word will never lie to us and...

June 11, 2016

What Happens to Us When We Read the Bible?

Our struggle with Bible reading is often not because of time or effort or ability,...

May 2016

May 31, 2016

Church Grammar: Theology as the Language of Christianity

Christians who deny the importance of good theology or pay no attention to it might...

April 2016

April 18, 2016

New Book — Rooted: Theology For Growing Christians

I wrote a theology book for people who have a hard time reading theology books.

December 2015

December 07, 2015

My 5 Favorite Books of 2015

The list you've all been waiting for.

April 2015

April 20, 2015

10 Ways to Understand Scripture in Light of Jesus

Any talk of the unity of the OT and the NT must center on Jesus.

April 14, 2015

Inerrancy Is Not a New Idea, Just Ask Irenaeus

The idea that Scripture is without error isn't something fundamentalists cooked up in a lab...

March 2015

March 23, 2015

Jesus Wasn’t Afraid of His Old Testament

Jesus was comfortable with suggesting that “the word of God cannot be broken," and perhaps...

March 10, 2015

3 Responses to Critiques of Inerrancy

Some observations on critiques of inerrancy and the idea that inerrancy "dies the death of...