Family Shepherds
How do we encourage Christian fathers and husbands to be leaders at home? How do we empower Christian fathers to see their primary calling is not to put food on the table, but to ...
How God Became Jesus
The lengthy subtitle for How God Became Jesus reveals the purpose of this book: The Real Origins of Belief in Jesus’ Divine Nature – A Response to Bart Ehrman. This book is really a ...
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 ...
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 ...