A Pilgrim's Progress

Some Christians struggle to interpret the bible correctly but wish they could do so. Others don't interpret it correctly and don...

You may have departed from the institutional church framework because the bible shows something far different. However, would it bring ...

How many times have you had Hebrews 10:24-25 used against you? For review, these two verses say, "And let us consider how to s...

Each Sunday morning our family gathers with some fellow believers in our home. As part of these meetings we've recently been studyin...

Understanding the bible correctly is neither particularly easy nor difficult. Rather, the task falls somewhere in between. The body of Ch...

This is the final post in the series Church, Bible, and Interpretation - It's Not So Simple . The bible is not an end in and of itself...

As we seek to understand the bible correctly we must remember that it was originally penned in Hebrew and Greek (and a little bit of Aram...

Keeping with the theme of description and prescription, I'm linking to an excellent post that Guy Muse wrote a few years ago entitled s...

Another challenging aspect of Biblical interpretation is determining what to do with narrative accounts. Do they simply describe what occu...

The Bible is a book. This means it is literature. It is also true, but it is literature nonetheless. Because of this we must take genre ...

This is post number six in my ten-part series entitled Church, Bible, and Interpretation - It's Not So Simple . The scriptures are a ...

This post is the fifth in my blog series entitled Church, Bible, and Interpretation - It's Not So Simple . All sorts of people toda...

As a runner I see Philippians 4:13 at almost every race. This is because somebody invariably has "I can do all things through him w...

This is the third post in my blog series entitled Church, Bible, and Interpretation - It's Not So Simple . Postmodernism has swep...

The Bible contains various types of genre (teaching, poetry, apocalypse, history, prophecy, etc.). Despite these differences, the writer...

This post is the first of a ten-part series on Biblical interpretation. The Bible is a book. This is painfully obvious. It is a book ...

If interpreting the Bible correctly was a simple process, then the church would likely have far fewer arguments. Let me be clear: the...

A few days ago Russell Moore penned an excellent piece entitled 2 Chronicles 7:14 Isn’t About American Politics . It is one of the best a...