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The Contours of the Land in Israel's History
The Land of Palestine
The land of Palestine took its name from the Philistines (the Pelishtim in Hebrew) who settled along the Mediterranean coast from Joppa to Gaza about 1300–12...
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Wednesday Giveaway: Abridged New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology
Today's giveaway, the New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology, is an abridgment of Colin Brown's four volume se...
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Spring Rains, a response to a generous God.
Inspired by reading God So Loved, He Gave, Esther Ellis and Shelbe Knapke performed Spring Rains. Their song looks back to...
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Is the Sword the Spirit? - Eph 6:17 (Monday with Mounce 103)
In Eph 6:14-17 we have a series of genitives. We are to take up:
- the breastplate of righteousness (τὸν θώρακα τῆς δικαιοσύνης),
- the shi...
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Extra-Curricular Activities - 08/05/11
Mark Noll on A World Without the King James Version.
Can you tell the KJV from Aesop and Shakespeare? See on this quiz. 
Matt Chandle...
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Wednesday Giveaway: Is There a Meaning in This Text?
This week’s giveaway is a classic, a special tenth anniversary edition of Kevin Vanhoozer’s Is There a Meaning in This Text?. Featuring a n...
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Blog Tour - The Essential Bible Companion to the Psalms
This week we are featuring the blog tour for The Essential Bible Companion to the Psalms!
Written by Brian Webster and David Beach, this ...
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ZIBBCOT Wins 2011 Christian Book Award
Last night, the Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary: Old Testament (ZIBBCOT) was awarded the 2011 Christian Book Award in th...
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Here we go again (Monday With Mounce 102)
I heard some really discouraging and sobering news the other day, and I wanted to take a break from Greek instruction to share ...
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Extra-Curricular Activities - 01/05/11
Kevin DeYoung looks at Money and Possessions in Proverbs.
Allen Yeh on Jesus and the Poor.
Trevin Wax shares some Urban Legends we often he...
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Wednesday Giveaway: Why You Think The Way You Do
“People often talk about worldview when describing the philosophy that guides their lives. But how have we come by our worldviews, and what...
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Grant Osborne on the Resurrection
“The darkness that hung over the land for the last three hours of the crucifixion, symbolizing the death of hope, yielded to the the life o...
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Was Jesus’ Burial Cloth Folded or Rolled? - John 20:7 (Monday with Mounce 101)
Having heard the the resurrection story today at church, I reminded of the translation issues in this verse. Peter ran into the tomb and sa...
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Extra-Curricular Activities - 24/04/11
Scot McKnight shares The Lamb is the Lion who is Roaring, an excerpt from One.Life
James K.A. Smith reflects on the musical The Book of Morm...
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C. Marvin Pate on the background of Johannine literature
C. Marvin Pate (MA, Wheaton; PhD, Marquette University) taught for thirteen years at Moody Bible Institute. Now he is chair of the depar...
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Reviews of the Zondervan Illustrated Bible Dictionary
Over at Reading Acts, professor Phillip Long recently reviewed the Zondervan Illustrated Bible Dictionary. You can read excerpts of the re...
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Wednesday Giveaway: Four Portraits, One Jesus
“So was Jesus crucified for political reasons or religious reasons? Raising the question this way actually misrepresents first-century Juda...
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