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>Did Jesus Wear a Dress?
>A few days ago, I wrote a post and made the following statement: According to Pastor Steve Anderson, Jesus wore pants because Deuteronomy 22:5 says that it is an abomination to God for a man to...
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>Using the Koran as a Path to Jesus
>The New York Times has an interesting article on the controversy among Baptists concerning the issue of using the Koran to introduce Muslims to Jesus. Below is an excerpt from the article: Ergun...
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>Jesus Will Return in 2050
>A recent poll conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press and Smithsonian Magazine reveals that 41% of Americans believe that Jesus’ Second Coming will occur in the next 40...
View ArticleAsaph, King of Judah – Part 1
“Abijah [was] the father of Asaph, and Asaph [was] the father of Jehoshaphat” (Matthew 1:7-8 NRSV). The gospel of Matthew begins with the genealogy of Jesus. Matthew’s genealogy presents Jesus as an...
View ArticleAsaph, King of Judah – Part 2
“Abijah [was] the father of Asaph, and Asaph [was] the father of Jehoshaphat” (Matthew 1:7-8 NRSV). Read Part 1 here. Nowhere in the Hebrew Bible is Asa called Asaph. Asaph was appointed by David to...
View ArticleAsaph, King of Judah – Part 3
“Abijah [was] the father of Asaph, and Asaph [was] the father of Jehoshaphat” (Matthew 1:7-8 NRSV). Today I conclude my study of the name “Asaph” as it appears in Matthew 1:7-8. To read Part 1, click...
View ArticleJohn’s Abiding Love – Part 1
Whenever we speak about John, we must think of the twelve apostles, that group of disciples whom Jesus called to follow him. His divine call had a divine purpose. The twelve disciples whom Jesus...
View ArticleJohn’s Abiding Love – Part 2
Read John’s Abiding Love – Part 1 John’s Call As a good Jew, John was brought up in a religious home, where the piety of his mother, which is seen in all the gospels, was a great influence in his life....
View ArticleThe God of the Old Testament and the God of the New Testament: Divine Warfare
Today’s post was written by Vanu Kantayya, one of my students at Northern Baptist Seminary. Vanu wrote a research paper for the course “Old Testament Theology: The God of the Old Testament,” in which...
View Article“The Lord said to my lord”
In a previous post I discussed the meaning of the words “adoni” and “Adonai” (see below). The word “adoni” means “lord” and refers to an individual who is superior to another. The word “Adonai” refers...
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Prayers to Yeshua, the Messiah of Israel
An article published by Israel Today presents a very interesting story of a Christian woman who credits her miraculous healing to prayers to Yeshua, the Messiah of Israel. Her story was so fascinating...
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The Son of God – The Movie
On February 28, 2014, 20th Century Fox will release the movie, “The Son of God.” The movie was produced by Mark Burnett and his wife, actress Roma Downey. They were the two people who produced “The...
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The Ethics of Jesus
Book Review: Scot McKnight, Sermon on the Mount. The Story of God Bible Commentary. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2013. ISBN 978-0-310-32713-4. Pp. 300. $29.99. My friend and colleague Scot McKnight has...
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The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife
Image: The Jesus’ Wife Papyrus For several months now, scholars have been debating whether the so-called “The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife” was genuine or a forgery. Now we know. Scientists from Harvard...
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Jesus’ Great-Grandmothers
Jesus’ genealogy appears in two places in the New Testament: Matthew 1:1-17 and Luke 3:23-38. In Matthew, Jesus’ genealogy is presented in a descending order: it goes from Abraham to Joseph. In Luke,...
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The Other Great-Grandmothers of Jesus
In a previous post I wrote about the four women who appear in Matthew’s genealogy of Jesus. These four foreign women were included in Matthew’s genealogy in order to emphasize the universal mission of...
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Jezebel, A Great-Grandmother of Jesus
In my studies of the great-grandmothers of Jesus, I wrote about the four women who appear in Matthew’s genealogy of Jesus. I also wrote about several other women whom Matthew did not mention but who...
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The Genealogy of Jesus According to His Great-Grandmothers
For the past several weeks I have been writing about the genealogy of Jesus in Matthew 1. Matthew’s genealogy includes four women, all of them non-Israelites by birth: Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, and...
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Feeding the 5,000
Christianity Today has a good article about the feeding of the multitude by Jesus and his disciples. Here is a short excerpt: The story is told in told in Matthew 14:13-21, Mark 6: 30-44, Luke 9:10-17...
View ArticleExplore God: “Can I Know God Personally?”
This is the seventh study on the Explore God Chicago 2019 series. The Explore God Chicago 2019 is a Community Outreach Initiative that seeks to answer seven important questions about God, faith, and...
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