Bible & Tech
While the tide is slowly turning, many modern scholars and pastors still reject what the late Michael S. Heiser popularized as the divine council worldview (DCW). But it’s not entirely clear to me which claims they find controversial or difficult to accept, since it’s often accepted or rejected wholesale as a set of interconnected ideas. [ ]
Many Christians read their Old Testament and see in it mostly the story of God the Father, perhaps with occasional pre-incarnate appearances of the Son and the rare glimmer of the Holy Spirit. They think that human history can be broadly divided up into three continuous phases: In other words, the Father was the primary [ ]
Leading product at Logos in the Christian tech space, I’m involved in frequent discussion about AI. I’ll highlight two recent examples, specific to Christian higher education, hoping they can help to stimulate your own thinking and discussions on this important topic. “AI in Your Theological Research and Spiritual Study” Last month I had the chance [ ]
In Psalm 82, the psalmist describes the rebellious sons of God ruling unjustly over the nations (Ps 82:2–4) that Yahweh had allotted to them at Babel (Gen 10–11), which we read about in Deuteronomy 32:8 in the DSS and LXX. When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided all mankind, he [ ]
Today marks a significant milestone in the history of Bible study software—and Bible study more broadly. Keep reading for the historical context or jump straight to the exciting news. One of the most fundamental aspects of Bible study is searching—finding multiple occurrences of a word, phrase, or lexical pattern to illuminate the meaning of a [ ]
Common Good magazine interviewed me a couple of months ago on Logos’s use of AI for Bible study and published a revised transcript as “AI within Your Theological Library.” If you’re interested to better understand how Logos’s theology of technology works itself out practically as we carefully apply advances in information technology in the form [ ]
The team at Logos asked me to write some thoughts on technology and how we at Logos think about the role of technology in the mission of the church and our for-profit business that exists to “use technology to equip the church to grow in the light of the Bible.” Many have angst about this [ ]
It seems like an elementary question with a simple answer. Almost every Sunday school child at gospel-preaching churches knows that the gospel is the good news about Jesus dying on the cross to save sinners through faith so they can be forgiven and have eternal life. While there’s a beautiful simplicity to the gospel that [ ]
Our church is studying Titus on Sunday mornings, and our family happens to be working through Titus right now in our regular Bible time together, too. We’ve be making our way through the New Testament over the last few years, slowly reading through a portion of Scripture and looking for patterns and major themes and [ ]
The Gospel of John (2003) is my all-time favorite Bible movie. It’s a 3-hour dramatic presentation of the text of John’s Gospel almost verbatim1 from the Good News Bible (also known as the Good New Translation and Today’s English Version). It’s unusually high quality for Christian cinematic productions, and you can’t get much more faithful [ ]
One of the most common ways people relate to Jesus is by seeing him as an example to follow. This idea is captured in the popular modern phrase “What would Jesus do?” or in the acronym WWJD. Even many non-Christians recognize Jesus as a positive moral example. While it’s not the primary way we should [ ]
The Bible is full of commands to love God and love others. Jesus called these the two greatest commands. “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” 37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first [ ]
What is the New Testament all about? If I were to ask this question to my three-year-old son during our family Bible time, he’d answer, “God,” followed by “Jesus.” He’s usually right! And he wouldn’t be wrong in this case, either. There are many good candidates for the central idea of the New Testament. God, [ ]
Every Sunday school child knows the story of Israel’s Exodus from Egypt. It contains all the elements that make a good flannelgraph or picture-book story—or even a Hollywood movie. It’s one of the most powerful and dramatic stories in the Bible. But it’s much more than a children’s story. It’s central in the Bible’s storyline, [ ]
Does the Bible present the Holy Spirit as a person, distinct from the Father and the Son? Yes. Did John use the masculine demonstrative pronoun ἐκεῖνος (instead of the neuter ἐκεῖνο) in John 14:26, 15:26, and 16:13–14 to make that point? An impressive list of people answers yes. But Andy Naselli and I argue they re wrong in “Prooftexting [ ]