Category Archives: Bible

Love, Jesus, and the Bible

Posted on August 17, 2022 by Richard Heyduck

I saw this cartoon on Facebook this morning and found it stimulating. First thought: Who are the people in the picture? Reading left to right, as we do in English, we see five people who are dressed in modern western … Continue reading →

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Tremper Longman – Confronting Old Testament Controversies

Posted on May 1, 2019 by Richard Heyduck

Note: A free copy of this book was sent to me by Baker Book Bloggers for purposes of review. It doesn’t take more than a few minutes with the Old Testament to discover that it comes from a cultural perspective … Continue reading →

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Taking Time for the Bible

Posted on July 25, 2017 by Richard Heyduck

One of the key moves made during the Enlightenment that paved the way for modern historical critical study of the Bible was the decision to treat it as if it were just an ordinary book. If it is only an … Continue reading →

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Reading Isaianic Prophecies

Posted on November 27, 2016 by Richard Heyduck

In church this morning we looked at a few texts that Christians have traditionally taken to be prophecies of the coming Messiah, prophecies of Jesus. Most Christians, upon reading Isaiah 52:13 – 53:  see the text as descriptive of Jesus. … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Greek for Everyone

Posted on November 21, 2016 by Richard Heyduck

I just finished reading A. Chadwick Thornhill’s, Greek for Everyone: Introductory Greek for Bible Study and Application published by Baker Books (Note: My copy of the book was provided to me by the publisher for purposes of review.) I minored in … Continue reading →

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“If a brother sins (against you)…”

Posted on August 2, 2016 by Richard Heyduck

This Sunday I’ll be looking at Matthew 18, spiraling outward from v. 20. If you look at v. 15, chances are your Bible, assuming it’s a modern translation, likely has a footnote about a textual variant. What’s a textual variant, … Continue reading →

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Christian Politics

Posted on March 12, 2016 by Richard Heyduck

We’re in a season where American Christians are thinking about politics. Well, maybe not. Maybe it’s truer to say we’re in a season where the politics of the current American polarizations have colonized Christian minds. Candidates and their flunkies are assuring … Continue reading →

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Jesus’ Stories

Posted on February 20, 2016 by Richard Heyduck

Jesus told stories to (a) show people what the Kingdom of God was like, and (b) move that Kingdom forward. Following his lead, we commonly call these stories parables. Each parable tells us something important about the Kingdom. That is pretty … Continue reading →

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Approaching Scripture

Posted on April 18, 2015 by Richard Heyduck

Since I’m a commuter (to both my jobs), I have plenty of time to listen as I drive. A few weeks ago I was listening again to one of Robert Jenson’s 2009 Burns Lectures at the University of Otago in … Continue reading →

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Scot McKnight’s The Kingdom Conspiracy

Posted on January 27, 2015 by Richard Heyduck

In his latest book, The Kingdom Conspiracy, Scot McKnight cuts across the grain of both recent scholarship and contemporary ministry practice. Biblical and theological scholarship for some time now has insisted that kingdom and church are two different things, generally … Continue reading →

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