Posted on June 17th, 2008 by Dr. Brian Rapske
Other Categories: Christian Life • Discipleship • Heaven • New Testament
Tags: New Testament
Christians are called to live above the level of their culture. I’m OK with that. But living unreflectively can be as spiritually unhealthful as enthusiastically endorsing the culture.
Though I’ve had my share of childhood scraps and squabbles, I’ve never as an adult settled a dispute by resort to bloodshed. I feel good that I’m living [...]
Posted on May 1st, 2008 by Dr. Larry Perkins
Other Categories: Biblical Languages • New Testament
Tags: God • Gospel • Holy Spirit • Jesus • Seminary
The Psalmist declared “Since my youth, O God, you have taught me” (Psalm 71:17) and he desires that God continually would teach him to do his will (Psalm 143:10). His experience and expectation is that God does instruct him, with the result that he knows God and his ways. While this [...]
Posted on December 6th, 2007 by Dr. Larry Perkins
Other Categories: New TestamentTalk
Tags: Church • God • Gospel • Jesus • Leaders • New Testament
Considerable discussion is occurring about the appropriate way to define an "Evangelical". John Stackhouse (Church and Faith Trends volume 1, issue 1, EFC website) proposes a definition that includes the following elements: orthodox and orthoprax, crucicentric, biblicist, conversionist, missional, and transdenominational. There is much to commend such a definition, although personally I think it emphasizes [...]
Posted on September 19th, 2007 by Dr. Larry Perkins
Other Categories: Bible • Bible Study • Biblical Languages • Hermeneutics • Ministry • New TestamentTalk • Preaching • Theology • Translation Issues
Tags: Bible • God • Gospel • Jesus • Leaders • Ministry • New Testament • Theology • Translation
No, this is not an attack on any Bible translation. But it is a serious question — how do our translations of the Bible influence the forming of our Christian worldview? We believe that God intended his Word to be translated into every language. Yet as we make the transition from Greek or Hebrew text [...]