Shane Rosenthal provides an exhaustive summary of what the historical record says about Jesus in his latest blog post, “Outside the Gospels, What Can We Really Know About Jesus?” Not only do secular authors verify His existence, but historians also consider other parts of the New Testament to be historical …
Mitch Chase presents another helpful article, “Concealed and Then Revealed,” on the necessity of both the Old and New Testaments for Christians. The title reflects a quotation from Augustine, “The New is in the Old concealed; the Old is in the New revealed.” The Story of God’s redemptive plan is …
In his recent article, “Why do our Bibles contain these books and not others?” Tony Watkins provides an overview of how the Bible’s 66 books came to be included within its covers. We can be confident that these are the books God wanted to be preserved through the ages. The …
I wrote this essay, originally titled “The Jewish Testament?” on June 14, 2002, for the CGG Weekly. “But He answered and said, ‘It is written, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.”‘” —Matthew 4:4 The Random Bible Verse comment …
On the other end of the link is an enlightening blog post, “Parchments,” by Mike Wittmer, giving us some idea how much it cost Paul, the church, or some patron to write and copy each of the epistles we now have in our New Testament. Doing God’s work, even then, was …
