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January 2022

January 07, 2022

sin drains one’s life blood | Solomon’s wisdom

At best, Solomon is referring to shedding the blood of animals in idolatry. At worst,...

December 2021

December 08, 2021

Ecclesiastes, pt. 14 | one is to invest and work, trusting God for increase

There are consequences to our decisions, one way or another. Koheleth offers wise counsel, and...

December 05, 2021

on suffering | AJ Mitchell, Jenn Johnson, & Brian Williams

How do people in the arts speak to suffering? This is a topic found in...

December 02, 2021

Ecclesiastes, pt. 13 | decisions of wise men and fools

A wise man’s heart is at his right hand, But a fool’s heart at his left. Eccl...

October 2021

October 31, 2021

happy hell-oween 2021

The term hell is actually a transliteration of the term gahenna. The term is often used...

September 2021

September 20, 2021

God’s hands hold all life

Koheleth seems to be an elder, reflecting on what is truly meaningful in this life. Life...

August 2021

August 22, 2021

Come on down here and study Pneumatology! :-)

Then there is Pneumatology. Pnuema is the Koine Greek word for breath, wind, and/or spirit...

July 2021

July 26, 2021

NEW publication & vlog series review

In this video I share a little bit about my most recent publication that you...

July 23, 2021

Advent in Revelation to Second Advent and beyond

This is the final piece, last in a series from the Hebrew Bible and Revelation....

July 15, 2021

Revelation 12 | story within a story

Revelation 12 is an intentional intercalation (story within a story). This is a writing device...

July 09, 2021

Was C.S. Lewis an Oxford Don?

When I talked to the other professor about why C.S. Lewis wouldn't be considered among...

July 07, 2021

here are other views on Revelation

Then here is my nemesis, my temptation... Some people believe they can reinterpret the Early...

July 01, 2021

the times from Revelation 4 onward

Well, I'm on a path today I wasn't expecting to be on. I was hoping...

June 2021

June 30, 2021

nothing new really on Revelation 1-3

Revelation is the only book of the Bible with a blessing like this. I...

June 16, 2021

covenant in retrospect, looking forward

Covenant and temple stories are closely related in ancient Near East (aNE) literature. You would...

June 09, 2021

2nd Temple Judaism, Black Panther, & Ezekiel’s Third Temple

There is a man who has built a model of Ezekiel's Third Temple. It's actually...

June 07, 2021

gleaning Last Days truths from the Tabernacle and Ark

Place inside the Ark the stone tablets inscribed with the terms of the covenant, which...

April 2021

April 21, 2021

Faith and Reason | in dialogue with Dr. Okello

FAITH AND REASON: EXPLORING SOFT RATIONALISM in partial fulfillment for the course PH 501 Philosophy...

March 2021

March 26, 2021

on incarnational ministry

“The gifts are incarnational. That is to say, God works through humans. Believers submit their...

March 18, 2021

on all the Gifts of the Spirit

Does the Holy Spirit operate the same way with all of us, or not? Scholars...

February 2021

February 11, 2021

spirits, tongues, and interpretation

Sometimes the discerning of spirits seems difficult to comprehend. One of the reasons is because the...

February 04, 2021

on the energetic working of the Spirit

What is the Holy Ghost working in our gathering in this moment? In a way,...

December 2020

December 22, 2020

Joseph Castleberry and others on the spoken word

Joseph Castleberry says about the Gift of faith, “The Holy Spirit reveals an alternative reality... "...

August 2020

August 12, 2020

Look to the Cross.iv

Do we look for a way to start the evangelistic conversation, or do we start...

July 2020

July 31, 2020

on economic teachings in Scripture

What do God’s commands and teachings - as seen in Scripture - reveal about the...

March 2020

March 23, 2020

Trinitarian Prayers | How then should we pray?

How then should we pray? Let's remember our collective focus in this season of the...

February 2020

February 23, 2020

Ephesians 6 | The Bondservant

Bondservants, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, not...

October 2019

October 31, 2019

Happy Reformation Day | Halloween for Reformers

Long before there were scads of costumed kids trick-or-treating, there was a Great Reformation. Our...

June 2019

June 07, 2019

imago Dei: on Dominion, Creativity, and Cyborgs?!

Every good scholar, a Theologian being no exception, takes time to engage a topic thoroughly. ...

May 2019

May 30, 2019

imago Dei: The Same Yet Different

The central question of this essay has plagued man ever since the fall.[1] What does...