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Kenneth Berding — February 17, 2025
Here are nine things we wouldn鈥檛 know about Paul and his missionary team if Colossians 4 wasn鈥檛 in our Bibles. I鈥檒l list them in the order they...
Kenneth Way — February 05, 2025
鈥淚t is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins鈥 (Heb. 10:4 NIV). This affirmation about the Old Covenant is true because only...
Kenneth Berding — January 22, 2025
There is a line in a well-known story of Jesus (Matt. 20:20-28) that often gets overlooked. James and John have just allowed their mommy to ask...
Kenneth Way — January 08, 2025
In Hebrews 8:7-8 we read: 鈥淔or if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second. For He finds...
Kevin Lawson — December 06, 2024
If you put these things before the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, being trained in the words of the faith and of the good...
Si esto ense帽as a los hermanos, ser谩s buen ministro de Jesucristo, nutrido con las palabras de la fe y de la buena doctrina que has seguido....
Kevin Lawson — October 25, 2024
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the...
Kenneth Berding — October 18, 2024
What does the apostle Paul mean when he uses the word 鈥渧eil鈥 in 2 Corinthians 3:12-4:3? For years I didn鈥檛 really understand 2 Corinthians 3:12-4:3...
Kevin Lawson — September 27, 2024
And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up...
Y 茅l mismo constituy贸 a unos, ap贸stoles; a otros, profetas; a otros, evangelistas; a otros, pastores y maestros, a fin de perfeccionar a los...
Kevin Lawson — September 13, 2024
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is...
As铆 que, hermanos, os ruego por las misericordias de Dios, que present茅is vuestros cuerpos en sacrificio vivo, santo, agradable a Dios, que es...
Kevin Lawson — August 30, 2024
And when a great crowd was gathering and people from town after town came to him, he said in a parable, 鈥淎 sower went out to sow his seed. And as...
Junt谩ndose una gran multitud, y los que de cada ciudad ven铆an a 茅l, les dijo por par谩bola: 芦 El sembrador sali贸 a sembrar su semilla; y mientras...
William Lane Craig — August 23, 2024
Why didn't Saul of Tarsus find the evidence for the Resurrection convincing?
Timothy Pickavance — August 05, 2024
We need to talk about the human heart. Confusion abounds. Perhaps we should start with the Scriptures. The Hebrew word rendered 鈥榟eart鈥 in English...
Kenneth Berding — July 31, 2024
When I first started to learn how to pray on my own, I thought that I had to kneel when I prayed. Most of the people I had read about who were...
Kenneth Berding — June 28, 2024
If you connect a few historical dots, you may (as I did) find yourself thinking that Paul was friends with the son of Simon of Cyrene, the man who...
Kenneth Berding — June 12, 2024
No. In the New Testament, prophecy is described as a revelation for a particular moment (1 Cor. 14:30). Preaching and teaching[1] is an exposition...
Timothy Pickavance — June 03, 2024
One privilege of teaching at Biola is watching students awaken to the power of loving God with their minds. Because our minds are part of our...
Kenneth Berding — January 24, 2024
When Jesus hung on the cross, did he forgive those who crucified him? Technically, no. Jesus prayed that the Father would forgive his persecutors....
Kenneth Berding — December 19, 2023
One popular but less-likely theory for why we celebrate Christmas on December 25 is that Christians piggy-backed their Christmas celebration on the...
Kenneth Berding — September 27, 2023
Was the Apostle Paul effective as a public speaker or not? Was Paul鈥檚 facility in rhetoric strong or weak? New Testament scholars disagree on how...
Kenneth Berding — August 23, 2023
There is a third way to interpret (and translate) Romans 8:28 than is found in most English translations, but most people don鈥檛 know it. Some...
Kenneth Berding — June 23, 2023
The topic of Paul鈥檚 thorn in the flesh (2 Cor. 12:7) is, on the one hand, like a puzzle to be solved 鈥 what could have caused Paul such agony? 鈥...