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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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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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The Faith of Abraham – An Excerpt From Genesis (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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There's Still Time: Software Sale on Illustrated Commentaries
For a short time (until 5/30/16), the Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentaries (Old and New Testaments) are on sale at the soft...
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[Common Places] In Memoriam John Webster
As we mourn the death of a leading figure in our discipline and dear friend to many, we invite those impacted by the life and writings of Jo...
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How Should Christians Relate to Governing Authorities? Michael Bird Clarifies
"Origen, who knew Roman brutality all to well, said: 'I am disturbed by Paul’s saying that the authority of this age and the judgment of the...
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The Holy Spirit by Christopher R. J. Holmes Receives Best Theology Book of the Year Award from Australian Theological Forum
The Holy Spirit by Christopher R. J. Holmes, published by Zondervan Academic, has received the 2015 Australian Theological Forum’s annual bo...
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The Power of a “So” (John 13:4) - Mondays with Mounce 290
It is a well-known fact that Greek sentences tend to be longer than English, and therefore a translator will regularly turn a long Greek sen...
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True Life Change - An Excerpt from Visual Theology
As Christians, merely not sinning isn’t enough. We are to pursue holiness.
The story of the prodigal son is the perfect example of what it m...
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Constantine's Conversion to Christianity: Was It Real? Does It Matter?
One of the major turning points in the history of the church was Constantine’s conversion to Christianity.
Some Christians consider Const...
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[Common Places]: Reading Notes: Theological Epistemology
One feature that will appear regularly this year will be a monthly series entitled Reading Notes. In these posts, editors and contributors w...
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John Walton: "This Course Can Change Your Life"
Have you ever read a chapter from the Old Testament and wondered, why did God put that in the Bible?
Everyone has.
Lots of people—even in t...
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