Six Essentials for Understanding Revelation
            Seeing the Lamb's victory, recognizing its literary artistry, holding its temporal tensions, grounding it in Scripture, and receiving its pastoral comfort
        
     
    
            
    
        
    
        Q&R: If Jesus is THE Revelation, What's the Bible Then?
            The Bible serves as Spirit-inspired testimony pointing us to the actual revelation: the person of Jesus Christ. The Bible isn't trying to be the revelation—it's trying to show us where to find it.
        
     
    
            
    
        
    
        Three-Dimensional Bible Reading
            Moving Beyond Surface-Level Interpretation
        
     
    
            
    
        
    
        Why didn't the Bible—and Paul specifically—make their calls for justice more obvious?
            Why didn't the Bible—and Paul specifically—make their calls for justice more obvious? Why doesn't
        
     
    
            
    
        
        
    
        Importance of Genre
            Let's pretend that I have a bookshelf with 100 books on it. The only pretending here is that
        
     
    
            
    
        
        
    
        Christians act like interpreting Scripture isn't hard
            Christians oftentimes act like interpreting Scripture isn't hard (which isn't true). I think this is because
        
     
    
            
    
        
        
    
        Elijah and the 450 Prophets
            Someone recently asked me:
I’m confused by Elijah killing 450 prophets...that just seems so cruel and excessive. Like,
        
     
    
            
    
        
        
    
        Good Online Resources for Studying Scripture
            Biblegateway.com
Bible Gateway is usually the first place I go on the internet to start researching a piece of
        
     
    
            
    
        
        
    
        Don't Read the Bible Alone
            Don't read the Bible alone