The Way of Balaam
Introduction In obedience to the great commission, the formative Church in Asia Minor was developing through missions, evangelism, and discipleship. As people recently in the faith of our Lord Jesus, there were numerous people in …
The Lens of Inerrancy
Too often, while professors, scholars, and students claim inerrancy of Scripture, they will advocate that it says something else other than Biblical authors intended. Where there is a denial to recognize what Scripture says, they …
Exegetical Rules of Engagement
This posting is about the rules of engagement concerning Biblical exegesis according to the four levels of theological study. To go about conducting research and forming our presuppositions and convictions to articulate a purpose or …
The Sequence of Articulation
A method of ordered thought more suitable toward study, inquiry, and objections concerning Scriptural truth follows the four-tiered model of biblical studies introduced earlier. Whereas biblical languages, bible backgrounds, and hermeneutics together support competent exegesis …
Points of Order
Introduction As a sequence of increasing levels of study, there are four tiers of learning development and theological understanding. For many decades, this model has existed to support a linear learning path for Bible students, …
Imagine Heaven
I just finished reading “Imagine Heaven” by John Burke. While there were numerous Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) reported from clinical studies, the author does well at recounting some of them in explicit detail. The unique stories …
The Road to Ruin
We are given clear specifics about why it is highly important to be mature and thoughtful people committed to Scripture as necessary to serve the Church and love its people well. The framework we are …
The Lens of Perspicuity
We are entrusted with the legacy of truth. To reclaim our position and function as Christian thinkers and pastor-theologians. To defend the faith. To encourge us and challenge us. To proclaim the unique and exclusive …
The Cardinal Antitheses
There are often pronounced and significant differences between the external impressions of success, spiritual maturity, purity, and Godly living as compared to the inward condition of the heart. We see that in what Jesus had …
The Sheep & The Goats
Introduction Jesus speaks a message of hope and warning about the coming judgment of believers and unbelievers, both righteous and unrighteous among the nations. This is a meticulous verse by verse walk-through of Matthew 25:31-46 …
The Apostolic Triangulation
Book Review The book entitled “The Hermeneutics of Biblical Writers” details the notion that Prophets and Apostles from both the New and Old Testaments saturated themselves in Scripture. Specifically, that they had a hermeneutical method …
Sea of Confusion
When a biblical author writes about a specific matter or topic and conveys meaning in a real or strict sense as given by terminology, background, grammar, and context, it is that literal hermeneutic or meaning …
Words Cherished & Spoken
What would it look like if every command that Jesus spoke was isolated and identified in Scripture among their separate and individual verses? To get at Jesus’s words cherished and spoken in this way for …
Becoming Born Again
If you would like to begin fresh with renewal, purpose, and eternal security, you can invite God into your life. When God takes up residence within you, that is what it is to become born …
Theological Criteria of Meaning
Seeker-sensitive individuals can, at times, accept what is imagined among people when reading the biblical text. If imaginations, both creative and wild, reach too far to form false ideas of theological relevance, the outcome can …
