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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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3 Responses to John Dickson's Invitation for Women to Preach — An Excerpt from "Hearing Her Voice"
On Tuesday I engaged a new book by John Dickson that considers the "gender roles in ministry" discussion from a new angle. H...
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"Five Views on Biblical Inerrancy" Will Benefit You In 5 Ways
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Several years ago Stephen M. Garrett and James Merrick noticed a problem in evangelicalism:...
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Hebrew and You with Lee M. Fields — Would You Name Your Son Lucifer?
I thank you for reading the blog and for the kind comments you have sent and your own thinking on the matters presented here. Let’s have a l...
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My Advice to Students — Stephen Garrett Says "Connect with a Local Church"
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A few weeks before I started my M.Div. program seven years ago I asked a friend, “What’s the one p...
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Teaching vs. Sermoning: The Case for Women Giving Sermons
“The question of women delivering sermons in church is a touchy one for many evangelical Christians,” writes John Dickson. “For some it is ...
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What’s a Kandake? (Acts 8:27) — Mondays with Mounce 233
In Acts 8:27 (NIV), Luke writes that Philip “started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, an important official in charge of all...
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Extracurricular Activities 6.28.14 — False Teachers, Anselm & the Chinese, and Why Pastors Quit
Russell Moore Asks, "Could the Persecuted Church Rescue American Christianity?"
It would be easy to assume that American evangeli...
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John Franke on Inerrancy: "The Bible Contains a Plurality of Truth"
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For evangelicals, inerrancy has been a hotbed issue for some time. With the release of Five Views ...
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Is Women in Ministry a Justice Issue? Yes, But Not Like You Might Think — An Excerpt from "Jesus, Justice, and Gender Roles"
For nearly half a century Kathy Keller, co-founder of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, has heard the impassioned cry that gend...
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My Advice to Students — John Franke Says, "Be Open" and "Never Forget Christianity 101"
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Graduate academic work is fraught with many challenges, not least of which is how we engage new id...
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Paul the Misogynist, Contextualist, Culturalist? Kathy Keller Says Not So Fast!
Kathy Keller, co-founder of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, believes God gave us a good gift when He created complementary ge...
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When Words Mean What They Don’t Mean — Mondays with Mounce 232
Every once in a while I come across a verse that is simply impossible to translate. No matter what you do, you over- or under-translate, or...
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Extracurricular Activities 6.21.14 — Hell, Ministry Burnout, and the Call to Priesthood
Fred Sander's Theses on the Revelation of the Trinity
As I’ve been working on a large writing project on the doctrine of the Trinity (T...
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Filling the Gaps for Readers of John: Karen Jobes’ Commentary on 1, 2, 3 John (ZECNT)
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Recently, Karen Jobes, NT professor at Wheaton, launched a new commentary on 1, 2, 3 John (ZECNT) ...
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Reading Paul Might Cause “Meltdown”—An Excerpt from Michael Bird's “Bourgeois Babes, Bossy Wives, and Bobby Haircuts”
Reading Paul carefully may cause a “meltdown”? This is especially true of long-held assumptions about women and ministry, so says Michael Bi...
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My Advice to Students—Karen Jobes Says, “Don’t Lose Your Love for the Word of God”
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It’s been said, “If we’re going to do the Lord’s work, we have to learn to do it in the Lord’s way...
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