When you read the story of Dorcas’ death and the miracle that follows it in Acts 9:36-42, please—for the love of Scripture—leave your assumptions about women and widows at the door. Instead, do this: Why? Because there are way too many assumptions about this passage The Expositor’s Commentary refers to the widows as “poor and…
They’ve published a Bible acknowledging the Babylonian story of Creation (Enuma Elish) and the Flood (Epic of Gilgamesh) with those articles on the same page as the Biblical account. This is rare and exactly what we need nowadays.
“Another study Bible? Seriously? Don’t we have enough already? What makes this one stand apart from all the others?” Sound familiar? This is the same way I opened my review of the Tony Evans Study Bible in the Fall 2019. In it, I offer a brief overview of the history of study Bibles. Now, here…
This week we discussed various topics related to the church in Antioch, Syria. We learned the first instance a disciple was called “Christian” was in Antioch. A prophet came down from Jerusalem and predicted a severe famine that would spread over the entire Roman Empire, and we were able to pinpoint almost exactly when this…
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This week we discussed a couple phases of Paul’s ministry in the thriving metropolis of Corinth. He was finally reunited with Silas and Timothy, his ministry partners who stayed in Berea when he left for Athens. By reading passages from Paul’s letters to the churches at Thessalonica, Philippi, and Corinth, we were able to piece…
For the first time in a LONG time, Paul left a city because he felt like it, not because he was being chased out (although we are left to wonder whether that meeting with the Areopagus Council wasn’t the catalyst to his decision to move on). Not many people in Athens were receptive to Paul’s…