A Reason to Learn Biblical Greek (1): Emphatic Negations
There is a way to negate something in Greek that rarely gets translated into English in such a way as allow most of us to feel the full force of it.
A Moment on the Scriptures: The Theology of Christmas (10)
Although we’re quite different in many aspects from the person of Jesus, there remains something between us that we share: our humanity.
What is Faith?
I was watching a movie the other day and, in it, there was a scene with a Catholic priest preaching about knowledge and faith.
Who said that?
In the Book of Hebrews, there comes an interesting section (Heb. 3:7-4:7) where the writer (or perhaps, preacher) references a section of the Psalms (Ps. 95:7-11) and attributes that section to three “people”.
Exegetical Meditations (41)
In Hebrews we’re told that our high priest (Jesus) is able to know what we’re going through when it comes to temptation and sin because he went through it. We’re told that he was tempted in every way we are with one stark difference—he did not sin.
Exegetical Meditations (11)
How we talk about Jesus matters. It matters because our speech about him is a reflection of what we believe to be true about him, and what we believe to be true about him directly shapes the relationship we’re in with him. If we believe Jesus to be less than what he’s revealed to be in Scripture then we could in danger of worshipping someone who is no real Jesus at all.