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June 2022

June 19, 2022
Jesus’s parable about the return of seven spirits is situated after Matthew’s version of blaspheming...

May 2022

May 30, 2022
One of the Apostle Paul’s repeated sayings is for believers to walk in the Spirit:...
May 22, 2022
I was recently asked this question, which is apparently still a live one. There are...

April 2022

April 30, 2022
How does a person experience personal spiritual renewal? Nehemiah 8–9 gives us some good biblical...
April 14, 2022
Worship, renewal, and revivals are not without controversies. Ever since the Great Awakening, and likely...
April 03, 2022
The Apostle Paul’s letters contain a number of vice lists. These lists specify vices (sins)...

March 2022

March 26, 2022
The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the treat of a nuclear holocaust has sparked on...
March 11, 2022
A couple of million people have now fled Ukraine due to the Russian invasion. This...

February 2022

February 27, 2022
We often read into the Bible our own assumptions. This means that we may have...
February 16, 2022
From Moses parting the Red Sea, to Jesus healing lepers, to the Lady Fatima making...

January 2022

January 30, 2022
In 2 Corinthians 12:7–8 Paul speaks of receiving a “thorn in the flesh.” This problem...
January 16, 2022
Second Corinthians is one of Paul’s most complex letters. Biblical interpreters may need to consult...
January 11, 2022
Christians are not the only ones who value faith. The Romans considered faith—fides in Latin—to...
January 01, 2022
I start this post while watching Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve and seeing a...

December 2021

December 12, 2021
The new Spider-Man movie, No Way Home, has come upon us. This film opens up the...
December 11, 2021
We already read about five misconceptions in 1 Corinthians from my earlier post. Here are...
December 02, 2021
We often hear Paul’s second largest letter, 1 Corinthians, read at wedding ceremonies. Its famous...

November 2021

November 21, 2021
In 2 Corinthians 4:4 the apostle Paul says: The “god of this age” has blinded...
November 01, 2021
What do I mean by reading the Bible intertextually? And what is intertextuality? The term...

October 2021

October 15, 2021
I had the recent privilege of interviewing Dr. Robert A. Mullins, Professor and Chair of...
October 02, 2021
Apart from standing firm against malicious forces, we must also put on the armor of...

September 2021

September 17, 2021
Four different voices that give us insight on fate and freewill are Boethius, John of...
September 08, 2021
In Ephesians, the community in Christ is to engage in a spiritual battle and put...

August 2021

August 27, 2021
The great 13th century Dominican philosopher Thomas Aquinas writes about Jacob’s election over Esau prior...
August 14, 2021
Apart from his celebrated works, Confessions and The City of God, Saint Augustine of Hippo...
August 01, 2021
Does Romans 9 teach that God chooses individuals irrespective of their faith? Or is it...

July 2021

July 25, 2021
A long-standing debate regarding Roman 9 continues among informed laity, church denominations, theologians, and scholars...
July 11, 2021
I had the privilege of recently interviewing biblical scholar and friend, Craig Keener,* on his...

June 2021

June 25, 2021
I am privileged to conduct an interview with Dr. Scott Hafemann. We met fairly recently...
June 13, 2021
As I currently do research on Paul’s epistle to the Romans, I would like to...
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