Volume 23, Number 3 Preaching to the Choir Biblically Illiterate In March 2018, The Wall Street Journal had to issue a correction. The previous day, a journalist had quoted Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu as ...
Jump to: Exegetical Systematic Historical Practical Exegetical Theology: Three Passion Predictions from Zechariah: The One They Have Pierced In this series of articles, we are looking at the Old Testament context of Passion Predictions from ...
In Sunday’s gospel (Matthew 3:13-17), it’s not hard to grasp why John would have sought to change Jesus’ mind about who would baptize whom. John had just finished confessing that he was not worthy to ...
Gregory B. Graybill is senior pastor at First United Presbyterian Church of Moline, Illinois. He earned a DPhil at the University of Oxford and is author of Evangelical Free Will: Philipp Melanchthon’s Doctrinal Journey on ...
Jump to: Exegetical Systematic Historical Practical Exegetical Theology: Three Passion Predictions from Zechariah - Thirty Pieces of Silver The prophet Zechariah is quoted a number of times in the Passion Narratives in the Gospels. In ...
Sunday’s gospel (Matthew 11:2-11) seems a strange choice for the Sunday historically known as Gaudete (Rejoice). As the curtain opens on Matthew 11, the scene before us is John languishing in Herod’s dungeon. Gaudete? Rejoice? ...
Michael Kruger is a professor at and the president of Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina. Overview There are a number of very good books which cover the topic of the New Testament canon, ...
Michael Eschelbach is an LC-MS professor of theology and philosophy at Concordia University, Irvine, California. His CV is here. Eschelbach has taught New Testament Introduction at Concordia Chicago and Concordia Irvine. The syllabus includes: “Students ...
Jump to: Exegetical Systematic Historical Practical Exegetical Theology: Prominence Indicators - Tense-forms in Narratives We continue to look at different ways speakers/writers indicate prominence, as in, relatively speaking, what are the main points and what ...
When it comes to our hope of eternal life, which is more dangerous: to say too little or to say too much? To say less than Scripture says or to say more? Or, to use ...
