Moving From Contemplating the Biblical Navel to Real Application

I am guilty of writing a bunch of thoughts, opinions, and various and sundry other ways of contemplating the biblical navel and end the discussion gaining little more than having thought about something a little more or with a slight nuance. How many of you feel your life has never been the same since reading [...]

Improve Your Hebrew With Hebrew Boardgames

See this ebay online store for some Hebrew boardgames. What better way to improve your Hebrew?

Gospel of John - Starting a New Class

We are going to start studying the Gospel of John in our 20s & 30s class starting tomorrow. I will probably end up posting a few things on it as we go. There are a couple of things that stand out from the very beginning. The biggest thing, of course, is the differences between John [...]

How Archaeology Helps Us Understand Scripture

Archaeology plays a major role in how we understand the Bible. It is more than Indiana Jones style trips to far away lands in search of lost treasures or the holy grail. In a practical way, archaeology illuminates scripture as we come to understand the culture and language of the time in more precise ways. [...]

Rediscovering God - Hearing it Again for the First Time

Philip Yancey wrote, “Strangely, rediscovery may strike a deeper chord than discovery.” (What’s So Amazing About Grace, 52). There are fewer books in the Bible that is more true of than the Psalms. Written over half a century and read now for three thousand years the psalms are valuable in the process of rediscovering God. [...]

Knowledge + Service

Bible knowledge has sometimes been stressed over service but the two go hand in hand. One without the other is dead. You can know all about God but no matter how much you study, memorize, or even teach you don’t really know God [...]

Familiarizing Ourselves with Biblical Culture

The following quote is from Peter C. Craigie in Ugarit and the Old Testament,

“The Bible in not a difficult [book] to read…It was written for the ordinary person. But the modern reader faces a problem unknown to the original readers and hearers of the biblical message: the passage of time has imposed the gulf of [...]

The Resurgence Greek Project (aka - zhubert)

I wanted to mention an outstanding resource on the web. Zhubert, now called The Resurgence Greek Project is like having a powerful piece of Bible language software free on the web. He has laid out the entire new testament in greek with lots of nice roll over functions including individual word parsing, literal translation, etc. [...]

Another Must See Bible Resource

Rob Bradshaw has done it again. Rob has done a lot of work putting the table of contents with links to the full texts of the Bible Translator online. If you do any translating you need to have a look here (See the post - Bible Translator’s Table of Contents) and here. Thanks Rob!
Here is [...]

Neutic, Herman (500 B.C. - 2007 A.D.)

Herman Neutic was born amidst the Greek philosophers and Jewish rabbis in the centuries prior to the birth of Christ. While publicly very quiet and reserved, much was written about him in the two millennia since his birth. He has been surrounded by much controversy in the last two hundred years that ultimately resulted in [...]