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For forty-two years, they have camped around the world. The exploits of Gary and Monika Westcott have been captured on their Turtle Expedition blog. For someone who grew up loving to go camping, I think this may be one of … Continue reading →

Contributors: Robert N. Wilkin, Thomas R. Schreiner, James D. G. Dunn, and Michael P. Barber. Alan P. Stanley, general editor. Stanley N. Gundry, Counterpoints series editor. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2013. 234 pages.   What will be the basis of my … Continue reading →

By John A. Beck. Baker Books. 2013. Pastors and teachers can never have enough resources to illuminate the Scripture for themselves and to enliven sermons and lessons for their hearers. John Beck’s Everyday Life in Bible Times represents one more … Continue reading →

It’s been two months since I’ve been back from a whirlwind, six-day, border-to-border excursion to the country of Jordan, and I can’t get it out of my mind, or, I should say, my heart. Yes, it was hard travel; no, … Continue reading →

One degree. Seems so little. Yet, as many small plane pilots can tell you, one degree can make all the difference. For every sixty miles pilots fly off one degree, they miss their destination by a mile. If you left … Continue reading →

The debate over how the first two chapters of Genesis should be interpreted continues to rage within evangelicalism to this day, and will likely continue until Jesus snatches us into His presence and settles the argument. This debate is essentially … Continue reading →

Wild Angels Sometimes fly to Eden, rest their wings on the ground, lay their faces on the soil, rich and sweet as milky baby’s breath. They throw handfuls of gold rings, into rivers, watch the light flicker and shine, and … Continue reading →

As a boy growing up in a fundamentalist church, I was taught that God created the heavens and earth some six thousand years ago. I took at face value the “B.C. 4004” marginal heading to Genesis 1:1 in my Scofield … Continue reading →

I did not want to write this article.  Rather, I wish the need for me to write this article did not exist.  As far as I am concerned, my life was going on just fine, albeit extremely busy.  Having said … Continue reading →

In the beginning there was dust:  an ocean of it.  The dust lacked form, lacked life.  This grieved God, who then cried amidst the dust until there was mud below, and mud above: a wobbling firmament of mud.  God brooded … Continue reading →

I was sitting on my couch at home with my earbuds in place watching a YouTube video of Dr. Nord. I had missed Corban’s first chapel of the semester and wanted to hear the message from our new President. Dr. … Continue reading →

In the movie, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, after USAF Tech Sergeant Epps sees the Autobot Optimus Prime transform, he muses, “You gotta wonder: if God made us in His image, who made him?”[1]  Whether or not we answer Epps’s … Continue reading →