Lessons from a Penitentiary 

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I like to study history. Recently, I had the opportunity to study it at a unique place: the old State Penitentiary of Idaho. It housed prisoners from the closing years of the 19th century until around 1970. When it executed people, it did so through hanging. As you might expect, there were various photos of
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Do You Know What a Biblical Type Is? 

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When people go to Bible college or seminary, they learn the meaning of words that the general public often doesn’t know. When taking Biblical Greek, my classmates and I commented that we learned English grammar while we were learning Greek grammar. The word type is well-known to theologians. Merriam-Webster says that one meaning of type
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Wamura’s Wall 

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In the 1960’s, a man named Kotoko Wamura governed the Japanese town of Fudai. During his years as mayor, he commissioned the construction of a seawall. Due to tsunamis in the region, many coastal towns like Fudai have seawalls, but Wamura’s wall was considered an overreaction, towering over fifty feet tall. It was the largest
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Regional Conference in Idaho 

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On Mar 9-10, GES conducted a regional conference in Boise, ID at Lake Hazel Bible Church. The topic was Jesus’ parables. We tried to pick parables that are either difficult to interpret or that are often misunderstood. In addition, I did a session on the basics of Free Grace Theology in case there were some
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A Reminder (Psalm 103:15-16) 

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Meach and Jake. For many years those two names would bring a smile to my face. I attended a military academy and had a number of different roommates. Meach and Jake were two of them. These were not their real names, but nicknames. Formal proper names didn’t fare well in that environment, and they surely
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