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NTStudies · 4d ago

First Day: Israel

Just a brief post to say we have arrived in Israel.  Travel today is incredible.  Leaving Philadelphia for Tel Aviv, it only took ten hours and fifteen minutes to arrive.  Amazing. We are spending the first night in Netanya which is located along the Mediterranean coast just north of Tel Aviv.  Tomo
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NTStudies · 6d ago

To Israel

On Monday, May 21,  I will leave with thirty-seven folks for a study tour/pilgrimage to Israel.   This ten-day journey is sponsored by two theological institutions:  Central Baptist Theological Seminary and St. Paul School of Theology.  My good friend Mike Graves, the William K. McElvaney Professor
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NTStudies · 6d ago

To Israel

On Monday, May 21,  I will leave with thirty-seven folks for a study tour/pilgrimage to Israel.   This ten-day journey is sponsored by two theological institutions:  Central Baptist Theological Seminary and St. Paul School of Theology.  My good friend Mike Graves, the William K. McElvaney Professor
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NTStudies · 1M ago

Jesus and Universal Health Care

If you had been sitting with friends in a Jerusalem equivalent of a Starbucks circa 30 C.E. and were discussing Jesus’ identity, probably two answers would have emerged:  He was a healer and an exorcist.  While people might speculate about other aspects of his identity, king, Messiah, son of God, no
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NTStudies · 1M ago

Scratched Letters

Often one thinks that dry academic journals do not present any material for inspiration.  However, one just needs to realize that a story is behind every archaeological artifact uncovered.  Below is a devotion I gave to the Central Seminary faculty (7 February 2012) based on the article by Doron Ben
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NTStudies · 2M ago

Sample New Testament Tweets

The Modern Language Association has created a citation form for Tweets.  I could only remotely see where a Tweet might appear in a well-researched paper; however, it is nice to have a standardized form.  One can see the citation form on the MLA website:  Tweet Style Citation.  However, I have create
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NTStudies · 2M ago

C. H. Spurgeon Letter — Yours for a Price

If anyone has a few hundreds dollars laying around, here is quite the prize for a Baptist.  Up for auction, Lot No. 82, from Bonhams in England is a letter by C. H. Spurgeon.  Below is the description. SPURGEON (CHARLES HADDON) Autograph letter signed (“C.H. Spurgeon”), to “Dear Sir”, stating that “
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NTStudies · 3M ago

To the Holy Land in May (with May)

“The land is the Fifth Gospel.”  Cyril of Jerusalem, around A.D. 348 “After one has seen the old cities and landscapes, one reads the Bible with different eyes.”  Jerome, A.D. 400 Both of these quotes above capture some of the importance of experiencing the Bible within the context of the geographic
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NTStudies · 4M ago

Birth of Lewis Carroll

Today is the birthday of Charles Dodgson (Jan. 27, 1832) better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll.  He authored several books, many on mathematical topics as a Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford.  He is best known, however, for Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Dodgson ha
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NTStudies · 4M ago

A Tonic for Biblical Scurvy

Since I teach in Kansas, I pay attentions to issues that pop up in Kansas.  Here is an example of the abuse of the Bible and what I call the disease of biblical scurvy.  The Kansas House Speaker, Mike O’Neal, forwarded an email to his Republican colleagues related to a “Prayer for Obama” based on [.
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