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War in the Bible: an Examination of Biblical Conflict and Violence
The Bible doesn’t flinch at portraying the world’s violence, especially during wartime. And while there is no such thing as a kind and gentle war, you might be surprised to learn t...
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2 Crucial Lessons the Western Church Can Learn from African Christianity
Meet Francinah Baloyi.
Francinah was born into a family of traditional spiritual healers of African traditional religion who were strongly o...
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Is the Bible “Patriarchal”? Yes and No - An Excerpt from Gender Roles and the People of God
Patriarchy—literally, “the rule of the father,” from the Greek patriarkhēs—is any systemic structure in which men or the eldest male hold th...
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What’s the Point? (James 1:18) - Mondays with Mounce 293
One of the things I am sensitive to is the difference between an indicative and a non-indicative form. English style often blurs the distinc...
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Hypocrisy is Keeping People from the Church - An Excerpt from The Problem of God
God doesn’t exist. Christianity has a violent history. The Bible can’t be trusted. We hear phrases like this more and more from those who ar...
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eBook Flash Sale: How to Lead When You're Not in Charge
For a brief time you can save 36% on the eBook edition of Clay Scroggins' new book How to Lead When You’re Not in Charge: Leveraging Influen...
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Know what your small group will read this fall? Here are some reliable choices. (eBook Sale)
Want to go deep with your small group this fall? We've discounted a handful of eBooks for you, with prices starting at $2.99--so you save up...
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What Are the Top 10 Problems People Have with God?
We are living in one of the most skeptical eras ever.
Whether because of #FakeNews or post-modern relativism, our post-truth world posses a ...
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Christ Alone & Catholic Sacramental Theology: A Reformation Response
In order to understand the nature of the Reformers' disagreement with Rome, you have to understand the nature of two intertwining ideas that...
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Are Metaphors Inspired? - Mondays with Mounce 292
I have been thinking a lot about some of the general issues of translation, and one of the points that keeps coming up is the issue of metap...
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Nobody Talks Like That! (Ps 102:12) - Mondays with Mounce 291
You know you have been talking too much about translation when your spouse throws your own words back in your face. Robin was reading Ps 102...
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Unexpected Ally: Thomas Aquinas – An Excerpt from Grace Alone
In today's excerpt from Grace Alone--Salvation as a Gift of God, Carl Trueman, professor of Historical Theology and Church History at Westmi...
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Something to Brag About: Jeremiah 9:22–23 (Part 3: Articles, Particles, and Verbals, Oh My!) - Hebrew and You with Lee M. Fields
This month’s post concludes a post begun June 2017; please see that post for an explanation of versification. As mentioned there, this post...
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What Are the Fruits of the Spirit and the Works of the Flesh?
Jesus wanted his disciples to understand that there were some who would seek to distort the gospel. He called them “false prophets,” and h...
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The Case of the Missing Object (Matt 5:25) - Mondays with Mounce 290
I have been enjoying reading the CSB, the new version of the former HCSB. Tom Schreiner and his group of translators have done an excellent ...
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What Can We Learn About Walking in the Spirit from Galatians 5?
Due to the influence of law-heavy teaching, the Galatians struggled to understand how to mature as Christians. Did they become righteous by...
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What Is the False Gospel in Galatians?
It doesn’t take too long for Paul to get to the heart of the issue in his letter to the Galatians. He’s concerned that they’re abandoning ...
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