Category Archives: Bible Study

10 Principles for Reading the Bible (a link)… and a note on Everett Fox’s Hebrew Bible translations more generally

Posted on September 16, 2020 by Joe Ginder

Everett Fox has a really, really excellent set of principles for Bible readers. He calls it For First Time Readers of Bible Stories. I would add that I find them generally useful even if you have read the stories in … Continue reading →

Posted in Bible Study, References | Comments Off

The Lost Letters of Pergamum

Posted on July 1, 2020 by Joe Ginder

On my day off this week I read The Lost Letters of Pergamum by Bruce W. Longenecker as an audiobook. I appreciated it quite a lot. It’s one of those books I’ve had on my list to read for at … Continue reading →

Posted in Bible Study, Reviews | Comments Off

N.T. Wright amplifies James on “being true to oneself”

Posted on February 22, 2020 by Joe Ginder

“None of us starts off with a pure internal ‘kit’ of impulses, hopes and fears. If you are true to ‘yourself’, you will end up a complete mess. The challenge is to take the ‘self’ you find within, and to … Continue reading →

Posted in Bible Study, Guidance, Quotes | Tagged impulses, James, N.T. Wright, quote | Comments Off

On Women in the Church and in Marriage

Posted on January 25, 2020 by Joe Ginder

In the past I wrote a series of posts considering biblical teaching on women in the church and in marriage. Several people have asked me about this recently so I thought I’d make the posts easy to find by adding … Continue reading →

Posted in Bible Study, Christian Living, Contemporary Issues, Family, Friends Theology, Women in Ministry | Comments Off

What is Sabbath? – a video (and podcast) by The Bible Project

Posted on January 8, 2020 by Joe Ginder

I love the Bible Project. I listened to Tim and Jon discuss Sabbath in the podcast series leading up to this video; it was a fantastic, thought-provoking, learning experience! And now the video is out. Watch it. Several times! It’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Bible Study, References, Theology | Tagged Bible Project, podcast, sabbath, video | Comments Off

Resources on Origins and Christian Faith

Posted on May 4, 2019 by Joe Ginder

Do you know a student who is trying to work out how to reconcile the latest science on human origins with their Christian faith and biblical teaching? Allow me to recommend that you refer them to works by John Walton, … Continue reading →

Posted in Bible Study, Contemporary Issues, Questions, References, Reviews | Leave a comment

Design Patterns in the Bible

Posted on April 11, 2018 by Joe Ginder

Tim Mackie of The Bible Project explains design patterns in the Bible in two episodes of the Bible Project podcast. You can listen to them here (part 1) and here (part 2). The idea of design patterns is quite familiar … Continue reading →

Posted in Bible Study | Leave a comment

Revelation Study Resources

Posted on February 4, 2017 by Joe Ginder

These are the books specifically on the Revelation of Jesus Christ that I have been using lately. I always use Logos Bible software with general resources like interlinears and Greek lexicons and word study. But these are the books specifically … Continue reading →

Posted in Bible Study, References | Leave a comment

The Bible Project

Posted on February 3, 2017 by Joe Ginder

The Bible Project is a project that brings me great encouragement. It is high quality, crowd-funded and unencumbered for re-use. It is just an all-around great general resource for followers of Jesus who want to learn and help others learn … Continue reading →

Posted in Bible Study, References | Leave a comment

Miracle or Sign?

Posted on March 20, 2015 by Joe Ginder

Paraphrasing a question from Susan Ramos: In Luke 23:8, Herod is hoping Jesus will do something impressive so he can see it. Sometimes this is translated that he wanted Jesus to do a “sign” and other times that he wanted … Continue reading →

Posted in Bible Study, Prayer, Questions, Theology | Leave a comment