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In my previous post, I discussed the nature of fittingness arguments. I recommended that we think in terms of fittingness in our reasoning about...

Suppose a murder has occurred. There is a body on the floor. In walk the detectives. What do they do? They make a lot of observations and pick up a...

The title of this post may seem silly. Reading is just the activity of decoding words and sentences as your eyes move down a page. As the shoe...

In biblical studies, one key way to advance scholarship is to publish a journal article in a respected journal. Journals publish cutting edge...

Three years ago, the world celebrated the 500 years of the beginning of what is known as the Protestant Reformation. On October 31, 1517, the...

How do we pray during a global pandemic?

Part 1 of this seriesintroduced the problem of why we are addicted to judging. Part 2 analyzed the actual troubles caused by both negative and...

Part 1 of this seriesintroduced the problem of why we are addicted to judging. This second portion analyzes the actual troubles caused by both...

I suppose that some judgments in some exceptional cases are more helpful than hurtful. Most people recognize that negative judgments are damaging,...

Here’s a thought experiment. Suppose that you possessed a magic ball from which dangled a tiny magic thread. Furthermore, suppose that when you...

How can you identify that you have a problem with pride? Following are 14 diagnostic questions that I recently adapted from a set of “rules”...

One of the topics I love to teach to my students is the geography of Israel. I have been to Israel many times and lived there for extended periods...

I recently edited and was one of six teachers in a DVD Bible study, The Gospel of John: Finding Identity and Purpose, along with teaching from...

Following is a little exercise I did while working on my new devotional book on union with Christ (what I refer to as inChristness in the book). I...

Some years ago, I was driving up I-95 in New Haven, CT, and I spotted a billboard that read “Shouldn’t your bank do more?” I was struck by two...

Suppose you go to Wal-Mart to buy a microwave oven. What is it that you want? You might think that you want an appliance that is inexpensive or...

I was walking across Biola’s eerily vacant campus a few weeks ago, when something subliminal surfaced in my thoughts. Nature unexpectedly felt “...

This post is also available in English. Tengo cincuenta y seis años y nunca he visto al mundo sufrir como ahora. Es horrible, y no quiero pasar...

This post is also available inEnglish. Estoy cansado. No me refiero a estar cansado físicamente por las actividades normales de la vida cotidiana...

The number of people experiencing mental illness in our country has increased significantly over the past 15 years. Although causation may not be...

This post will address two sets of questions: 1) What translation should I use when I memorize the Bible? and 2) What if I have already memorized a...