Welcome

Category: Bible Study

  • SHIFT 2019-2020 Starts Tonight @ UCF

    Tonight, we kick off another year of SHIFT at UCF. Since last semester, we have been able to meet in the Student Union on Monday nights. Typically, Monday is one of the more high traffic days on campus, and the Student Union is obviously a great centralized location to have a college Bible study on…

  • Reading Genesis Well: Navigating History, Poetry, Science, and Truth in Genesis 1-11

    While I was taking Hebrew classes, I stumbled upon an unusual commentary. It was only over 4 chapters, but it happened to be 4 chapters I was intently interested in understanding better. The book, by C. John Collins, was Genesis 1-4: A Linguistic, Literary, and Theological Commentary. You can read the fruits of that paradigm…

  • Christmas Book List: John Piper’s Trilogy

    John Piper is a gateway drug. Maybe less so in recent years, but when I was in college, he was many people’s first introduction to heavy theological lifting. One of my more formative experiences was reading both Desiring God and The Pleasures of God. But, one does not merely read John Piper books. Rather, one…

  • Genesis, Science, and Making Sense of It All

    I have a wide variety of reading interests. They mostly relate to classes I teach, but I also have some long standing research interests. And perhaps the longest standing is what to think about Genesis as a book of the Bible and its relation to modern scientific thought. From what I have read and studied,…

  • SHIFT @ UCF Ephesians Bible Study Starts Tonight!

    Just when you thought I might not blog again, I’m back. After spending June splitting the difference between work and rest (and so not doing either well), I took the better part of July off (minus auditing an RTS class, and then teacher training/orientation). I have been thinking through what re-booting the blog would look…

  • A Peculiar Glory: How the Christian Scriptures Reveal Their Complete Truthfulness

    Crossway let me get a hold of an eBook version of John Piper’s latest, A Peculiar Glory: How the Christian Scriptures Reveal Their Complete Truthfulness (see this sample). If you’ve ever read a book by John Piper, I’m not sure this much here that would surprise you. However, if you happen to be looking for an accessible…

  • What Are Biblical Commentaries? Some Recommended Reading

    As is my custom, several weeks back I started a series on book recommendations and then promptly abandoned it. I gave some recommended readings in Reformed theology, promised some on systematic and biblical theology, and well here we are. It would be pointless to promise when those posts will arrive, but most likely it will…

  • Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on The New Testament (Logos Ed.)

    Long ago, in many times and many ways, I spoke to you about the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament. As volume as have been released, I’ve posted about each one: James (ZECNT) Ephesians (ZECNT) Matthew (ZECNT) Galatians (ZECNT) Colossians/Philemon (ZECNT) 1 & 2 Thessalonians (ZECNT) Luke (ZECNT) Acts (ZECNT) 1, 2, 3 John (ZECNT)…

  • The New NIV Zondervan Study Bible

    I’m a big ESV guy. Or at least that’s been the case since the mid-2000’s. My first actual Bible was probably NIV. My first real study Bible was MacArthur Study Bible in NKJV that my mom got me during my first year of college. The next study Bible was a Reformation Study Bible in ESV,…

  • For The Love of God’s Word: An Introduction to Biblical Interpretation

    Because I spend a good bit of my time teaching the Bible, books on biblical interpretation always catch my eye. On my book review page, the “Hermeneutics” section gives you a good idea of volumes I’ve read in the past few years. One of those, Invitation to Biblical Interpretation, now has an abridged version. Although…