Guest AuthorPhotography by Tavis Bohlinger* Welcome to the first in a new series on the Logos Academic Blog (theLAB), in which we discuss everything but the actual content of a book. Design Showcase is a series of interviews with both publishers and designers...
This is a guest post by Lindsay John Kennedy. Although many popular misconceptions exist, the Bible tells us quite a bit about angels. It may not answer all our questions, but what it says, it says clearly. In this post, we draw from Michael...
It’s C.S. Lewis week here at Faithlife! We’re celebrating the scholar’s life and writings in the 30-volume C.S. Lewis Collection. This is a post from Ryan J. Pemberton (M.T.S., Duke Divinity School), minister for university engagement at First...
It’s C.S. Lewis week here at Faithlife! We’re celebrating the scholar’s life, writings, and the 30-volume C.S. Lewis Collection . This is a post from Revd. Dr. Tim Perry, Rector of the Church of the Epiphany (Anglican) in Sudbury, ON, and teacher in...
This is a post from Adam B. Shaeffer, PhD, Durham University, contemplating Lewis’ An Experiment in Criticism. I love C.S. Lewis. I have read and reread his works more times than I can count. Whenever someone asks me which of his books is my...
Tom Holland, Tom Wright and the Search for Truth: A Theological Evaluation (London: Apiary Publishing), 2017. Pp. 495. by Don Garlington This full-sized volume consists of thirteen chapters: (1) “Probing the Contours of Recent Research;” (2)...
This is a guest post by Paul Tripp, author and founder of the Parenting conference. It has been adapted from a blogpost and has been edited for readability. It was 11:00 p.m. on a Sunday night and I was pulling out of the grocery store parking lot...
Words by Justin Allison, Photos by Tavis Bohlinger* On June 18th and 19th, students, staff, and local attendees gathered in Durham for an international conference entitled “Closing the Gap: Best Practices for Integrating Historical and...
Why does apologetics matter? In this guest post, Bobby Conway, pastor of Life Fellowship Church and author of The One Minute Apologist, answers that question—and why the need for apologetics has never been greater. *** Like most people, the first...
With our ever-present sin, we must return continually to the ever-abundant grace of God in Christ Jesus. Sunday morning is one of the primary times to reflect upon grace and celebrate it together as a body. Here are five worship songs about grace...
“Death Was Arrested” was inspired by the epitaph of a tombstone found in a St. Mary’s, Georgia, cemetery. The inscription reads: Here rests what was mortal of Samuel Burr, age 42. In search of help far from home, death arrested his progress on...
Every person who steps into church is, to varying degrees, a sufferer. It’s part of the human condition. While it’s good that we sing songs about joy and victory in Christ, we misportray the Christian life if we never sing about suffering—and even...
“There was a man who had two sons . . .” “There once was a king who . . .” “In a certain town there was a judge . . .” When Jesus wanted to reveal what the kingdom of God was like, he often told stories—stories about widows and tax collectors...
Book Review David B. Capes, Rodney Reeves, and E. Randolph Richards, editors, IVP Academic, 2017. According to the Introduction, the work is intended as a student textbook that covers, in a manageable size, several aspects of Paul: his background...
by Vinh T. Nguyen In his recent post Four Reasons to Master Koine (and to Leave Attic Alone), Tavis Bohlinger made a plea to specifically focus on Koine in order to master “this particular type of Greek as thoroughly as possible.” This post...
Today’s post was written by David Swearingen, a longtime friend and colleague of Dr. Tony Ash. Dr. Anthony Lee “Tony” Ash, author and narrator of Walking With C.S. Lewis, a new Lexham Press video curriculum, died after a short illness on December 6...
Rarely are biblical scholars unanimous, but NT scholars pretty well all agree on one thing: the kingdom of God is the central theme of Jesus’ preaching. Some students of Scripture have argued that the kingdom of God is also the central theme of all...
This guest post by Elizabeth Vince is excerpted from Moment with God: A Devotional on Every Biblical Book. Childhood lessons about the consequences of bragging have stuck with me. As I learned about humility and modesty, I became afraid of being...
In 1905, Abraham Kuyper, the Dutch statesman and theologian, set forth on a journey around the Mediterranean Sea, visiting 80 sites and cities in 20 countries. His travels brought him to ancient lands and some of the most revered sites of...
Book Review Paula Fredriksen, Yale University Press, 2017, 336 pp. Widely recognized for her works on Augustine and Christian origins, in her latest book Paula Fredriksen turns her full attention to the apostle Paul. She impressively develops a...
This is a guest post from Paul Fleming, former pastor and president of ChurchINK.com. Sparkling lights. Wonderful smiles. Familiar smells. Family traditions. These are some of the things we think of when the Christmas season rolls around. But, for...
Robert J. Cara, Cracking the Foundation of The New Perspective on Paul: Covenantal Nomism Versus Reformed Theology. Reformed, Exegetical and Doctrinal Studies. London: Mentor (Christian Focus Publications), 2017. by Don Garlington This book is the...
This post is by Christy Tennant. It has been excerpted from Moment with God: A Devotional on Every Biblical Book. I must confess that sometimes I read about the forgetfulness of Bible characters and chide them in my mind. I think, “If God showed me...
This post answering the question “What do I do when it feels like God is asleep?” is by John Barry. It has been excerpted from Moment with God: A Devotional on Every Biblical Book. I say, “Help comes from God.” I tell people, “You’re not...
This post is adapted from the transcript to Dr. Daniel Block’s Mobile Ed course on Deuteronomy. To a lot of people, the only disease worse than Leviticus is Deuteronomy. We don’t like this book, we don’t understand this book, we don’t get the...
This post is adapted from the transcript of Dr. Mike Licona’s Mobile Ed course Philosophy of History (CS151). Toward the end of my graduate work, I started to have questions about my faith. It wasn’t because I’d heard some arguments...
Paul Overland (PhD, Brandeis University) is Professor of Old Testament and Semitic Languages at Ashland Theological Seminary. There is a huge problem in the way that biblical Hebrew is currently taught: it doesn’t stick. Polytetrafluoroethylene, or...
The following is a guest post by Paul Nitz, who teaches at the Lutheran Bible Institute, Lilongwe, Malawi. From Seminary to Africa I took the requisite four years of New Testament Greek at a ministerial college. After some more Greek at seminary, I...
Book Review Garwood P. Anderson (IVP Academic), 2016, 457 pp. What began as a promising breakthrough in Pauline studies just three decades ago — “the new perspective on Paul,” as James D.G. Dunn famously dubbed it in 1982 — seems in...
When we think about the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, we often do so with an image or a set of biblical passages and categories in mind. Much like the score in a movie, those categories help us make sense of Jesus’ death. For that is what...