The opening chapters of Matthew and Luke introduce us to Jesus as the long-awaited Messiah, conceived by the Holy Spirit and ...

Understanding Matthew’s use of prophecy Matthew’s Gospel frequently draws on Old Testament Scriptures to demonstrate that ...

by using rabbinic methods of interpretation to show that the scribal interpretation led to Christ as the key to the “Scriptures”. For the authors and founders of the New Testament, the Old ...

The Christmas season invites Christians to reflect on Jesus Christ's birth and its significance. Key Bible verses illuminate ...

Consider just a few examples this Christmas season. Writing about 700 B.C., Micah the prophet stated: "But you, O Bethlehem ...

The influential scholar who taught the narrative unity of Scripture and changed his mind about the morality of homosexuality ...

The Bible is made up of two main sections: the Old Testament and the New Testament ... Related: Renew Your Strength in the ...

So far, we have learned that “Pattern Words and Phrases” in the Bible can give us a more accurate interpretation of the scriptures. We need an accurate interpretation of the word of God in order to ...

In his teaching, Jesus often quoted the Jewish Scriptures; after his death ... call the Hebrew Bible - and Christians call the Old Testament - developed over roughly a millennium; the oldest ...

Advent symbolizes the church’s present situation in these “last days,” according to scripture, as God’s people wait for the return of Christ. During the holiday, the church looks back upon ...

My last column was about young theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the German church facing the rise of Nazism before and ...