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Honoring Your Father and Mother as an Adult

Get the Craig L. Blomberg Collection

New Testament specialist Craig Blomberg presents a sturdy shelf of works from Baker Academic and Brazos Press. In this collection, you’ll get a variety of theological, exegetical, and hermeneutical resources that center on the Bible’s timeless sufficiency and divine inspiration. Get the most out of your New Testament studies, whether you preach the New Testament’s message for conversion or teach the New Testament for the next generation of disciples.

Add the Baker Academic Craig L. Blomberg Collection to your library.

Master discourse analysis with Dr. Runge

In his discourse analysis courses, Dr. Runge explains linguistic devices—the building blocks of discourse analysis—and how understanding these devices can help us better understand the New Testament writers’ intentions. You’ll learn how to recognize these devices in the text, what they contribute to your exegesis, and how they can sharpen your exposition of the text. You’ll then put these methods into practice with Dr. Runge’s help as he guides you through Philippians.

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Get the Hermeneia and Continental Commentaries

The Hermeneia series is designed to be a critical and historical commentary to the Bible without arbitrary limits in size or scope. It will utilize the full range of philological and historical tools, including textual criticism (often slighted in modern commentaries), the methods of the history of tradition (including genre and prosodic analysis), and the history of religion. Great for the serious student of the Bible, it will make full use of ancient Semitic and classical languages; at the same time, English translations of all comparative materials—Greek, Latin, Canaanite, or Akkadian—will be supplied alongside the citation of the source in its original language. Insofar as possible, the aim is to provide the student or scholar with full critical discussion of each problem of interpretation and with the primary data upon which the discussion is based.

The editors of Hermeneia impose no systematic-theological perspective upon the series (directly, or indirectly by selection of authors). It is expected that authors will struggle to lay bare the ancient meaning of a biblical work or pericope. In this way the text’s human relevance should become transparent, as is always the case in competent historical discourse. However, the series eschews for itself homiletical translation of the Bible.

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What Biblical Preaching Looks Like | The Apostles’ Creed

Study biblical preaching with Dr. Edwards

Dr. J. Kent Edwards is professor of preaching and leadership at Talbot School of Theology at Biola University. He’s also the founding pastor of Oasis Community Church in California, and the founder and president of CrossTalk Global. With over 30 years of Christian leadership experience, Dr. Edwards has incredible insights to share about biblical preaching. In his course, Invitation to Biblical Preaching, Edwards answers the question, “Why preach?” and discusses what a biblical sermon looks like, what challenges you’ll face, and what you can do to overcome them.

Get Invitation to Biblical Preaching now.

Prefer to learn through reading?

Dr. Edwards wrote Effective First Person Biblical Preaching to help you discover a creative way to reach people who tune out traditional sermons. A large portion of the Bible is narrative. This fact, coupled with our culture’s fascination with story (as evidenced by its ever-increasing consumption of television, movies, and DVDs), presents the preacher with a tremendous opportunity to communicate powerful, life-changing truth in a way that is biblically honoring and culturally relevant.

In first-person biblical preaching, the preacher enters into the story via one of the characters, bringing the biblical text to life in the imaginations of the congregation. After making a case for this type of sermon, Kent Edwards takes the reader step-by-step through the process of crafting a dynamic first-person sermon that is faithful to the text. Along the way, he gives numerous examples, answers practical questions, and identifies pitfalls to avoid. He addresses both the exegetical task and the homiletical task as they relate to this approach.

Get Dr. Edwards’ book, Effective First-Person Biblical Preaching for $29.95.

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Did this episode look familiar? Our video team is in Israel with Dr. Craig Evans right now, so we’re re-airing some episodes you may have missed. Stay tuned to see some incredible footage from our travels in Israel with Dr. Evans.