Apparently 2020 is the Year of the Bible
2020 has the honor of being “The Year of the Bible,” at least according to Bible 2020, a global Evangelical organization, including the National Association of Evangelicals, World Evangelical Alliance,...
View ArticleYear of the Bible: What is the Word of God?
The Bible is often called the “word of God,” which means, among other things, that it has final authority over the life of the Christian. The following passage from the anonymous book of Hebrews seems...
View ArticleHow to Respect Scripture
Back in 2016, Al Mohler wrote about “The Scandal of Biblical Illiteracy” and some of the statistics he cites are difficult to swallow. For instance, a survey of “graduating high school seniors revealed...
View ArticleWhat the Bible Says About Right & Wrong
On the podcast we are constantly exploring these two questions: what is the Bible and what do we do with it? Well, in the past few years, these questions have caused me to examine this question: what...
View ArticleEngaging the Bible as If God Were Out Ahead of Us
Do not say, “Why were the former days better than these?” For it is not from wisdom that you ask this. ~ Ecclesiastes 7:10 Thus says the ancient, postexilic, author who went by the penname Qoheleth....
View ArticleDoes the Bible Give Us Access to Absolute Truth?
No. Thanks everyone for coming to my TED talk. Alright fine, I’ll say a little more. Ever since my book came out Love Matters More, there has been some pushback. Most of it has been from young white...
View ArticleDealing With the Bible: A Conversation Between Then and Now.
So, here’s my point. There is virtually nothing in the Bible that doesn’t look very similar to what we know from other cultures and religions of the ancient world. Not “exactly the same,” but the...
View ArticleThe Bible Really Isn’t About “History,” Really
So, here’s the thing. When we read any piece of literature that deals with the past, we are actually dealing with two kinds of pasts: the past of the event and the past of the author. Keep reading....
View ArticleRelationship Status with the Rules in the Bible: It’s Complicated
I find so many Christians who have a complicated and inconsistent relationship with moral rules. I have found that’s partly because we also have a complicated and inconsistent relationship with the...
View ArticleReading the Bible with a Jesus-Centered Approach
Recently, I wrote about the challenge we face when we are taught to “do what the Bible says,” as though it is a rulebook. Specifically, I wrote about the challenges of genre, context, and authority. I...
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