I must say that I have found the number of words employed to describe the details of the most significant death in history to be...

Books on how to study the Bible are in no short supply. The word used to categorize this kind of book is “hermeneutics”, or more...

Teenager: “I don’t like going to church. I didn’t like it when I was young, so why should I go now?” I can think of a number of things I...

I am under the impression that some young people see the things laid out in Scripture as interesting, at best, but ideal and not very...

In Part One I introduced a caricature of God that makes him out to be more of a Genie in a lamp than the God depicted in Scripture. No...

I have a friend who suffered a number of consequential injustices. These injustices have driven her to reading her Bible. In reading her...

Tertullian asked the oft repeated question, “What hath Athens to do with Jerusalem?” I might ask, “What hath Rome to do with Jerusalem?”...

I recall reading a story in Augustine’s Confessions that I wanted to use in a sermon. I decided to read the book from the beginning....

A fascinating point that was brought to my attention over the past 10 years is the unspoken, but implied, conflict between the Caesars of...

Preachers assess their own sermons. We have almost unanimously agreed that we are rarely accurate at assessing the effectiveness of our...