Occasionally, some well-meaning Baptists have asserted that belief in both the active and passive obedience of Christ as the ground of our justification is something foreign to Baptist life—perhaps something... Read More The post The Active Obedience of Christ: An Intrusion into Baptist Life? appeared first on Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary ..read more

The Fall 2024 semester here at DBTS will begin next Thursday the 29th. The schedule for this fall with links to course descriptions and textbooks, can be found here. While... Read More The post Have You Considered Auditing a Course at DBTS this Fall? appeared first on Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary ..read more

This past April, Andrew Naselli’s new volume, How to Read a Book: Advice for Christian Readers, was released by Canon Press. Over the past few months, six of my kids... Read More The post Review of How to Read a Book by Andrew Naselli appeared first on Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary ..read more

Recently, I came across a Reddit thread with a provocative title: “The Bible’s God-inspired book of Proverbs is plagiarized from the Egyptian Teachings of Amenemope.” The thread was of interest... Read More The post Does Proverbs Plagiarize from Egyptian Wisdom? appeared first on Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary ..read more

In this post I resume my series of blogposts on historically/theologically freighted phrases/clauses/mantras that have become cliché in contemporary Christian-speak—lines that are intrinsically innocuous (i.e., the words themselves are unobjectionable) but sometimes... Read More The post Theologically Loaded Catch-Lines, Part 2: What Does It Mean for God to “Be with Us”? appeared first on Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary ..read more

In this post I resume my series of blogposts on historically/theologically freighted phrases/clauses/mantras that have become cliché in contemporary Christian-speak—lines that are intrinsically innocuous (i.e., the words themselves are unobjectionable) but sometimes... Read More The post Theologically Loaded Catch-Lines, Episode 2: What Does It Mean for God to “Be with Us”? appeared first on Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary ..read more

This post continues (see Part 1 here) a review of the new, two-volume commentary in the ICC series by Travis Williams and David Horrell. In this post on Volume 2,... Read More The post Review of 1 Peter (ICC) by Williams and Horrell (Part 2) appeared first on Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary ..read more

I’ve decided to start a mini-series of blogposts on historically freighted phrases/clauses/mantras that have been detached from their moorings and have become cliché in contemporary Christian-speak. Most of the time... Read More The post Theologically Loaded Catch-Lines, Episode 1: What Does It Mean to “Cease Striving”? appeared first on Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary ..read more

Travis B. Williams and David G. Horrell have recently produced an expansive two-volume commentary on 1 Peter. Both volumes together stretch to just over 1,600 pages, covering 105 verses. The... Read More The post Review of 1 Peter (ICC) by Williams and Horrell appeared first on Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary ..read more

This series has been looking at nine arguments made by John Hart in Evidence for the Rapture for a pre-tribulation rapture in Matthew 24. So far, in Part 1, we have... Read More The post Does Matthew 24 Describe the Rapture of the Church (Part 5)? appeared first on Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary ..read more