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March 2019

March 22, 2019

Christianity without the Bible

The New York Times has published a discussion of the anti-semitism of Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment...

March 19, 2019

My Article on Art for an Israeli Christian Journal

Those who keep up with me on this blog know that I've been doing...

March 14, 2019

The Slave Bible

I'm in the D.C. area attending a board meeting of Patrick Henry College, where I...

February 2019

February 11, 2019

“He Stands Before Us in Every Purpose”

Concordia Publishing House has a good blog going, with sections titled worship, read, study, teach,...

January 2019

January 02, 2019

The Holy Innocents & the Abortionists

I missed Holy Innocents Day on December 28, which commemorates King Herod's slaughter of the...

December 2018

December 14, 2018

World’s Favorite Verses from Digital Bibles

The Bible has always worked well with new information technology, from the printing press--which took...

November 2018

November 14, 2018

The Widow and Her Bad Investment

One of the speakers at the Rural and Small Town Ministry conference I attended was...

November 08, 2018

African Christianity & the Bible

The Church is growing so rapidly in Africa, Asia, and Latin America that by 2050...

October 2018

October 31, 2018

Reformation Then and Now

The Church is discredited: plagued by corruption, including sex scandals. Trusting human leaders whose failures...

October 16, 2018

The Hermeneutic of Harm

Some churches teach that gay marriage, abortion, and other violations of traditional morality are not...

October 02, 2018

Born Again & Born from Above

In the course of our excellent Bible study of Job--I never realized how evangelical, how...

September 2018

September 13, 2018

The Double Fall

“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your...

August 2018

August 30, 2018

Australia Lutherans Debate Women’s Ordination

The Lutheran Church of Australia (LCA) is debating the ordination of women to the pastoral...

August 08, 2018

How Long Does It Take to Read the Bible?

My post about the One Hour Bible, an edition of highlights designed to be read...

August 07, 2018

Changing Church Teaching on Capital Punishment

Pope Francis has changed the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church on capital punishment. The...

July 2018

July 27, 2018

The One Hour Bible

The Bible is a really good book, most people would agree, but who has...

June 2018

June 20, 2018

“Bearing” the Name of the God Who “Takes” Our Sin

“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain" (Exodus 20:7). I've heard...

June 14, 2018

The Christian’s Identity

In this era of "identity politics," we would do well to read what the Bible...

June 14, 2018

Reading as Miracle

One of the superpowers most of us have but often take for granted is reading. ...

May 2018

May 31, 2018

Communal Reading in the Ancient World & the Early Church

In the ancient world, people read out loud, even when they were by themselves. Thus,...

May 28, 2018

“The Anticipated Davidic Figure” in the Psalms

My son-in-law Adam Hensley, Old Testament Lecturer at Australian Lutheran College, has just published his book Covenant...

May 11, 2018

“Now He Is Very Near”: Luther on the Ascension

More on the Ascension of Christ. . . .I keep reading on evangelical sites that...

May 10, 2018

“The Assumption of the Humanity into God”

The resurrected Jesus was with His disciples for 40 days, and then He returned to...

April 2018

April 25, 2018

Google Bans Concordia Publishing House Ads for Mentioning “Jesus” and the “Bible”

Google has banned remarketing ads from Concordia Publishing House, the publishing company of the Lutheran...

April 09, 2018

Not the Empty Tomb, but the Risen Christ

The true sign of the Resurrection is not the Empty Tomb, as we often say. ...

April 04, 2018

Bach and His Bible

Is Bach Lutheran? The question is like, "Is the Pope Catholic?" OK, there may now...

April 02, 2018

Good Advice vs. Good News

The essence of Christianity is not good advice, but good news. And there is a...

March 2018

March 30, 2018

Our Power Struggle with God

I just got back from our Good Friday service. Here in Australia we're a day...

March 30, 2018

The First Image of Christ on the Cross: The Staurogram

Just as some liberal Bible scholars have claimed that belief in Christ's divinity "evolved" over...

March 14, 2018

Why The Protestant Bible Has Fewer Books than the Catholic Bible

If a Protestant Christians gets into a discussion with a Roman Catholic and brings up...