Month: December 2014
12 posts
Using Church Fathers to interpret the Bible?
Some writers have expressed the conviction that any legitimate interpretation of a passage should already appear in the…
Does Christmas or Easter matter more? theologians debate
Theology sometimes looks different on a popular level.
Preaching from Jesus’s genealogy
Appropriate for Christmas season: have you ever preached from Matthew’s genealogy of Jesus? Or heard someone preach from…
When new data forces us to change our eschatology
(Because Craig’s cartoons each take only a few seconds to read, they are not meant to compete with…
The first Christmas
In this five-minute video, Craig talks about the first Christmas in Luke 2:1-7 and how it contrasts the…
Gospels as biographies–what are the implications?
This 13-minute video was the introductory part of a lecture that Craig gave regarding the Gospels at B.…
Did God love the Egyptians?
Some almost indispensable parts of the Moses-movie tradition are unlikely: for example, most Pharaohs had scores of children,…
Jesus’s Mission—Luke 4:18-19
Jesus declares that one of several aspects of his mission is to preach good news to the poor.…
Josephus about Jesus
The first-century historian Josephus reports that Jesus was a sage who performed wonders. This is a non-Christian source…
Funeral Oration for Craig Keener
This may sound like a harsh way to start an obituary, but: Craig Keener (d. 1975) was exceptionally…
Can any good thing come from Nazareth?–John 1:46
Nathanael’s question about Nazareth performs a special function in its context in John’s Gospel. The reader of John’s…