Category Archives: hermeneutics

Where Seldom is Heard; ERLC Waffle Fest; Truth and Time

This week’s Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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Grace Reformed; Pride Religion; First Fleece; Me & My Needs

This week’s Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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Gifts & Callings; Climate Change Liars, Sarah’s Grave & More

This week’s Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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The Hard Book

There are at least two different kinds of hard sayings in the Bible. On the one hand, there are texts that are just plain terribly hard to understand— texts to which we respond, “What in the world could that mean?” … Continue reading

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This week’s study on Romans 11. Don’t be left behind.

This week’s study

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A Sound Principle

Good exegesis will tell us that bad conclusions do not burst forth de novo from bad exegesis. It is valuable, important, even potent for us to have a good grasp of sound hermeneutical principles, to be on our guard against … Continue reading

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What’s our biggest weakness in understanding the Bible?

Logic, or a lack thereof. There are plenty of other weaknesses we have. We not only don’t come to the Bible as first century Jews but we do come as twenty-first century Americans. We are largely ignorant of the geography, … Continue reading

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This week’s Romans Study

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Black and White and Red All Over

What would you do, my father once wisely asked, if Jesus Christ Himself were to speak to you and make this promise- “I promise that nothing bad will ever happen to you again.”? Can you imagine? What would that do … Continue reading

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Legislating Morality

“You can’t legislate morality” is yet another cultural aphorism that both makes a sound point and makes no sense. The sound point is this. While laws, and attendant criminal penalties for breaking said laws might be something of a restraint … Continue reading

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