The Household Motif in the Letters to Timothy and Titus In recent years, I’ve wrestled with various questions related to men and women in ministry and other church-related topics. As I’ve done so, I’ve increasingly come to realize that ecclesiology is often where it’s at. That is, as I try to adjudicate a question or… Read More
Community and Mission
As we read at the beginning of the book of Acts, the early church was devoted to fellowship, koinōnia (sharing things in common; koinon = common): “And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. … And all who believed were together and had all things in common” (Acts 2:42). The… Read More
Heaven and Hell: The Only Options? A Critique of Conditional Immortality
With the possible exception of money, there is no other subject on which Jesus taught more than heaven and hell. Yet preachers today often shrink back from touching these delicate subjects, perhaps in part out of fear that they might offend their audience. For a broadcast with Janet Parshall, I was asked to comment on… Read More
Best Books in Biblical Studies 2014
I am grateful for the publication of several volumes in 2014 that will equip serious exegetes and preachers to study and proclaim God’s word with greater accuracy and authority. This pertains particularly to the study of Acts, Galatians, 1-2 Thessalonians, and 1 Peter. Other important books pertain to the divinity of Jesus, church leadership, and… Read More
Who Is Jesus?
With the publication of Bart Ehrman’s book How Jesus Became God and the response How God Became Jesus by a team of scholars, Jesus is in the news again. That’s a very good thing. It’s also terrific that scholars are rising to the challenge of responding to the skeptical questions raised by the likes of Ehrman…. Read More
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