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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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What is an “Accurate” translation? - Mondays with Mounce 294
A friend asked me this question the other day, and I thought I would take this opportunity to flesh out what I think the answer is.
The stan...
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It's Time to Stop Being a "Second-source Christian"
It is great to listen to pastors and student ministers. It is wonderful to hear what they think God’s Word is saying and that’s super benef...
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eBook Sale! Theology, Christian Living, Ministry Titles Starting at $2.99
This week only, find eBook deals starting at $2.99 on solid theology, vital Christian living, and sustainable ministry.
The sale includes t...
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How in the World are We Reading the Same Bible? - An Excerpt from The Blue Parakeet
Women in Leadership. Participation in war. Charismatic gifts. We can all agree that we don't always agree on topics such as these. How is i...
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[Common Places]: Reading Notes: Christological Anthropology
Trying to identify the most significant works on christological anthropology can be a little tricky. On the one hand, since incarnation and...
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What Does God Want Me to Do with My Life? Michael Horton Explains
'Tis the season for commencement speeches. On June 12, 2005, Steve Jobs gave one of the more memorable ones. His advice to the Stanford grad...
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Whose Wrath? (Romans 5:9) — Mondays with Mounce 293
No matter how word-for-word a translation tries to be, there will always be some confusing sentence that requires interpretation. Sometimes,...
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How to Share the Gospel Without Making It Awkward
Does this sound like you?
The Gospel is good news—I should be sharing it! But how?
I’m a pastor. Why do I struggle with sharing the Gospel...
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Can You Be Good without God? - An Excerpt from A Doubter's Guide to the Ten Commandments
The Ten Commandments are perhaps one of the most well-known and vexed verses of the whole Bible. They have found their way into our a...
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3 Keys to Help Doubters Make Sense of the Ten Commandments
The greatest cultural icon of the West isn’t American (Declaration of Independence). It isn’t British (Magna Carta) or French (The Social Co...
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Donald Miller and the Aorist (Mark 8:34) - Mondays with Mounce 292
Thankfully, the days are long gone when we think that an aorist verb automatically describes a punctiliar action. No more describing the aor...
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Did the Early Church Practice Infant Baptism or Full Immersion?
It’s not hard to determine how the early church celebrated baptism.
You can find several accounts in writings from the early church, includ...
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Is Church Unity Possible? - An Excerpt from Romans (The Story of God Bible Commentary Series)
The Story of God Bible Commentary explains and illuminates each passage of Scripture in light of the Bible’s grand story. It aims to set eac...
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[Common Places]: Ecce Homo: A Christ-Shaped Vision of Ourselves
With this post we begin a new series attending to Marc Cortez’s Christological Anthropology in Historical Perspective: Ancient and Contempo...
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Hebrew and You with Lee M. Fields - Swirling Tenses in Ps 2:1–3
The Forms and Translation
The NIV, as do all the most common versions, render all the verbs of Ps 2:1–3 with the English simple present. Th...
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“A Teacher” or “The Teacher”? (John 3:10) - Mondays with Mounce 291
What a difference an article can make! This is an example of one of those subtle uses of the article that can often be missed, and is also a...
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