Lutheran Education
Dr. Korcok served as pastor of a church in rural Ontario, Canada, which was in the process of establishing a Lutheran elementary school. This led him to ask questions, such as, “Why should the ...
Personal Speech-Ethics
This book is a PhD dissertation submitted to the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and published in the series Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament (WUNT). Baker demonstrates that “speech-ethics is a major concern in the ...
Questioning Evangelism
Have you ever noticed that very often Jesus answered a question with a question? A rich young man came to Jesus and asked, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” (Mark ...
Preach the Word – January/February 2016
Volume 19, Number 3. Matt Ewart seeks to tackle one of the biggest cultural problems we face as preachers: the declining rate of biblical literacy. How do we approach this issue in the proper way? ...
The Glory of God’s Gracious Love for Us…in Small Things!
Dear Brothers, If the goal of Jesus’ first miracle was to create some buzz, then Jesus should have fired his publicist. The location of the miracle was in a town so small that John feels ...
Genesis 37-50
This book is in a series from Baylor University Press— Baylor Handbook on the Hebrew Bible. Their aim: “Rather than devote space to the type of theological and exegetical comments found in most commentaries, this ...
Gospel of Matthew
This commentary was originally published in 1999 under the title, A Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew. It was updated and republished in 2009 as part of Ben Witherington’s socio-rhetorical commentary series. Socio-rhetorical analysis ...
Bioethics and the Christian Life
As I write this review, stories fill the news about whether Planned Parenthood harvested and sold organs from aborted babies. We live in a world of complex, difficult, and often horrifying bioethical choices. The ...
The American Muhammad
All false doctrine is the same under the skin. Once you delve into what makes a particular system of heresy tick, you can note similarities with other false teachers and other false teachings, and ...