A Dive into Galatians (Part 5: Galatians 5:13-6:10—The Flesh vs. The Spirit)
A Brief Recap (Again)Here in Part 5 of my look at Paul’s letter to the Galatians, we now come to the “big finale” of the letter. But again, like I did in my pre...
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Getting Interviewed About my Blue-Collar Bible Scholar’s Readers Guide to the New Testament
Today I was interviewed about my book, The Blue-Collar Bible Scholar’s Reader’s Guide to the New Testament. We mainly focused on the New Testament&#...
A Dive into Galatians (Part 4: Galatians 3:21-5:12—Sons or Slaves?)
A Brief Recap Thus FarBefore we move on to the next major section of Paul’s letter to the Galatians, perhaps it would be good to pause and provide a brief recap...
A Dive into Galatians (Part 3: Galatians 2:15-3:20—Faith or Torah?)
The argument in Galatians actually begins in 2:15. Everything up to this point is basically historical prologue that illustrates the theological point Paul is g...
A Dive into Galatians (Part 2: Galatians 1:1-2:14)
The Greeting (1:1-5)If you are like me (or like me when I was in high school), if and when you ever read one of Paul’s letters, you tend to skim through those i...
A Blue-Collar Bible Scholar’s Dive into Galatians (Part 1)
Back in the mid-90s, when I was a graduate student at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia, I had the extreme good fortune of being able to take numero...
“God’s Monsters” by Esther Hamori: A Book Analysis Series–Part 6: Leviathans, Shades, Giants, and God the Ultimate Monster
Welcome to Part 6 of my book analysis series of Esther Hamori’s new book, God’s Monsters. In this post, we are going to do a sprint through as much of the next ...
“God’s Monsters” by Esther Hamori–A Book Analysis Series (Part 5: Demons and Spirits of Falsehood at God’s Beckoned Call)
Welcome to Part 5 of my book analysis series of Esther Hamori’s new book, God’s Monsters. In this post, we are going to look at Hamori’s take on DEMONS and DECE...
“God’s Monsters” by Esther Hamori–A New Book Analysis Series: Part 4–Those Nasty Destroying Angels
Welcome to Part 4 of my book analysis series of Esther Hamori’s new book, God’s Monsters. In this post, we are going to look at Hamori’s take on angels in the B...
“God’s Monsters” by Esther Hamori: A New Book Analysis Series (Part 3: SATAN!)
Welcome to Part 3 of my book analysis series of Esther Hamori’s new book, God’s Monsters. In this post, we are going to look at Hamori’s take on “The Adversary”...