One of Mariam Kamell-Kovalishyn’s students at Regent College made this cake, and I love it. Make sure you read the words on the cake!! Read more

Over at CT, Kevin Emmert has a piece on, Can You See Too Much Jesus in the Bible? referring to WTS-Philly’s decision to “retire” Doug Green because he found more Jesus in Ps 23 than the Westminster Board was comfortable with (assuming you don’t think the real reason was to poleaxe him because he was the last remaining friend of Peter Enns). Green told CT: Christians should interpret the Old Testament with the same stance as the New Testament writers,... Read more

Good quote from Robert Jewett’s Romans commentary (p. 642), where he notes that “the compelling power of the gospel resides not in its preachers but in Christ himself, who becomes present in the preached gospel for those who believe.” Read more

I’m please to announce the upcoming release of a Logos Mobile Education bundle featuring two courses by myself and David deSilva called Between the Testaments Bundle. David deSilva’s course is on the Old Testament Apocrypha. My course is a survey of the history and literature of the Jewish Second Temple period, the time between the Old and New Testaments.  Here’s the promo for the course. The description from the Logos website: The Judaism of Jesus and Paul looked drastically different than... Read more

I have to say that my favorite quote from The Gospel of the Lord is this one: [P]utting the heading “Gospel” on a document does not really determine its genre any more than inscribing “Recent Observations on Nocturnal and Hematophagic Humanoids” on the cover of a Twilight novel turns it into a scientific research paper.     Read more

After seeing all the crazy and ad hominem things in the comments section on my recent ABC article, I thought this picture was very apt.   HT: Jim West Read more

Scot concludes his review of Biblical Inerrancy: Five Views by offering his own assessment about inerrancy as a tradition and as a hermeneutic. He raises some big issues about whether inerrancy brings light or simply creates a fight. Is inerrancy as historical referential precision really going to hold up against a lot of historical and archaeological studies? Is it not better to look at the phenomenon of scripture – citing Matt 8:5-11/Luke 7:1-10 – to construct our view of biblical truthfulness?... Read more

Journalist Sam de Brito had a piece in the weekend’s Sydney Morning Herald called, God is with us, unfortunately, where he went on a tirade arguing that if we got rid of religion then we could get rid of all the violence and hardship troubling this world. Remove questions of God from Israel and Gaza and you’re left with two people who have more in common than they care to realise. Remove God from the rest of the Middle East, it wouldn’t... Read more

I continue to struggle with how to factor in the plurality of the four Gospels when presenting the story of Jesus. On the one hand, I am uncomfortable with the harmonizing and minimizing tendencies of my evangelical tradition when it comes to alleged contradictions in detail. Francis Watson I think is right when he recently wrote about alleged contradictions among the four Gospels: There are very many of them, and they often relate to issues at the heart of Christian faith and... Read more

I just realized that this  month it is 20 years since I became a follower of Jesus. So I’m a bit nostalgic at the moment. 20 years of following the Jesus who loved me and gave himself for me. 20 years of being part of the household of faith. 20 years since my adoption as a son of the king. 20 years of knowing God as a loving Father, the Spirit my comforter, and Christ my brother. 20 years of grace richer... Read more