Crazy Stories, Sane God By John Alan Turner
John Alan Turner has a way of taking something that you either didn’t know was in the Bible or wasn’t sure what in the world it had to do with your life and giving you insight to see your life more clearly through the lens of any given story (even the bizarre, wacky ones). I […]
Logos’ Baker Academic Biblical Greek Collection (6 vols) – A Great Resource for Learning or Refreshing Your Greek
Over the last few weeks I have been working through Logos‘ Baker Academic Biblical Greek Collection and it has been tremendously helpful in refreshing my Greek. This bundle is designed to give you a variety of beginner and intermediate level Greek resources to help you either learn Koine Greek or brush up on it if […]
Greek in the Pulpit – Being Honest With Limitations
I love this story from David Black and his book, “It’s Still Greek to Me” in warning ministers to not preach making points from the original languages, “When Harvard presented Andrew Jackson with an honorary doctorate in 1833, Jackson had a small problem. His schooling was meager, and the ceremony was in Latin. To express […]
Tips on Reading Scripture Contextually
Learning to read scripture in context is one of the biggest gifts you can give yourself in Bible study. When the books of the Bible were first written they had no chapters numbers, verses or nifty headings. Those three things were not inspired and, although helpful to get us all looking at the same words […]
Jesus in Context – One of the Most Helpful Biblical Background Books Around
I recently came across the most helpful resources on the historical backgrounds to the Gospels that I have ever seen. It is called Jesus in Context: Background Readings for Gospel Study by Darrell Bock. This book works through the synoptics and John and pulls just about any relevant extra-biblical text in full quotation to help you see […]
Review of Logos “How to Read the Bible” Collection – Part 4
The 4th and final review of Logos’ “How to Read the Bible” Collection is a review of “Out of Context: How to Avoid Misinterpreting the Bible” by Richard Schultz. This was the best book in the whole collection. There are a lot of books that cover similar content to this one but this one has […]
The Difference Between Eisegesis & Exegesis – Sounds Boring but It is Something Every Christian Should Understand
A crime has occurred. The investigator arrives on the scene. He sees the body, the weapon and the footprints leading away. This is nothing new. He has seen similar scenes a million times and knows exactly what has happened. Without any further questions he determines exactly what all of this means, exactly how it happened […]
CENI – The Good Side
After that last post about the limitations of CENI (Command, Example, and Necessary Inference) I want to point out some of the things I think are good about those three things. First, I appreciate people who have a zeal for scripture. Some of the people who hold most tightly to CENI know the Bible backwards […]
Greek and Hebrew Textual Study Tools Big List
There are all kinds of great tools on the web for studying the Greek New Testament and the Hebrew and Aramaic Old Testament (the text, textual variants/criticism, etc). I thought it might be nice to start a list of them so that when anyone needs them you can get them all in one spot. I […]
Help From You Guys With Accordance or Logos – What is the most common command in the Bible?
I had an email discussion yesterday with a buddy about what the most frequent command in scripture is. If you google it you will find “do not be afraid” comes out on top. That is at least the theory but I can’t find really any evidence that backs it up. They say it occurs 365 […]