As Teachers of the Bible, When Should We Be Confident and What Should We Do with more Controversial Passages?
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Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates take up a question about a Bible teacher’s disposition. Can a teacher of Scripture teach with confidence most of the time? Is it really a healthy idea for a teacher of Scripture, in order to guard from arrogance, always to insert a dose of skepticism even when a passage is clear? Is it ever okay to speculate about things the Scripture does not say clearly? Listen to this Grace in Focus episode. We are looking forward to your company!

Sola Feels

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The Babylon Bee, a Christian humor site, recently published an article lampooning progressive Evangelicals for rejecting Sola Scriptura in favor of the doctrine of Sola Feels. From the article: “Quite simply, ‘Sola Feels’ means that all spiritual truths only become true once they’re filtered through and accepted by our feels—all the feels,” popular author and
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Dramatic Irony in Job

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Have you ever seen a performance of Romeo and Juliet? Near the end of the play, Juliet takes a drug that induces a temporary, but deathlike, sleep, to avoid marrying a man she does not love. To add to the drama, her body is placed in a tomb. To all appearance she seems dead. But
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Be like the Bereans

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by Bob Wilkin, excerpted from an article originally published in the November 2007 edition of Grace in Focus The Principle Stated After a short ministry in Thessalonica, Paul moved on to Berea due to Jewish opposition. Again he went to the synagogues of the Jews. This time he was warmly received: “These [Jewish unbelievers in
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Are We Being Unfair to Blomberg on Inerrancy?

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The battle for the Bible is far from over. In his book, Can We Still Believe the Bible?: An Evangelical Engagement with Contemporary Question, professor Craig L. Blomberg makes some extraordinary (and controversial) claims about what counts as believing in inerrancy, especially in chapters 5 and 6. Earlier this month, our Editor, Bob Wilkin, wrote
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