Bible Study Essentials

  • What’s on Kyle Hughes’s Bookshelf? 15 Recommendations
    by Logos Staff on April 11, 2024

    Kyle R. Hughes (PhD, Radboud University, Nijmegen) is the author of three books, including How the Spirit Became God: The Mosaic of Early Christian Pneumatology and Teaching for Spiritual Formation: A Patristic Approach to Christian Education in a Convulsed Age, as well as several peer-reviewed journal articles on patristic theology and on Christian education. His current book project, Scripting the Son, explores the intersection of Old Testament interpretation and the development of Christology in the second and third centuries.

  • Every Exorcism Is Eschatological: The Words of Demons in the Presence of Jesus
    by Mitch Chase on April 10, 2024

    People are afraid of demons. What are demons afraid of? Have you ever wondered? Maybe you would think it strange to imagine demons being afraid of anything. The accounts of demonic possession in the Gospels, and the attempts to represent such possession in films, can give even the bravest image-bearer pause as we consider the

  • The Church Calendar: How It Helps Us Remember Our Story
    by Kelley Mathews on April 9, 2024

    Shuffling along the dusty paths of ancient Israel, travelers and residents would inevitably stumble upon piles of rocks. A particular pile near Gilgal, however, showed evidence of being constructed with purpose.  The mighty warrior Joshua had commissioned the creation of that rock pile after the people of Israel had arrived back in their promised land:

  • What Is a Reformed Baptist? Beliefs, History & Key Leaders to Know
    by Nick Kennicott on April 8, 2024

    The name Reformed Baptist raises numbers of eyebrows. Some Christians believe the moniker is a contradiction in terms. Others think it simply refers to Baptists who are Calvinists. Nevertheless, despite the understandable confusion, Reformed Baptists have a rich history with well-defined characteristics. The first congregation of Reformed Baptists (then called Particular Baptists) assembled in London

  • What Will It Be Like? Imagining the New Heavens & New Earth
    by Elyse Fitzpatrick on April 5, 2024

    “Imagine” is my least favorite Lennon song. Sadly, Lennon isn’t a dreamer at all in this song, though he claims that he is. He’s living without real imagination or hope, foolishly thinking that the answer to death and war, greed and hunger, is to be found in a world with nothing below it or above it. Lennon couldn’t be more wrong.

  • Logos Live: Dr. Bryan Chapell
    by Jason Stone on April 2, 2024

    What you’ll see in this Logos Live episode In this engaging interview, we sit down with esteemed author and theologian Bryan Chapell to discuss his latest work, Are We Living in the Last Days?: Four Views of the Hope We Share about Revelation and Christ’s Return. Bryan Chapell, a respected figure in the Christian community,

  • Holy Saturday: What Happened after Jesus Died?
    by Matthew Y. Emerson on March 28, 2024

    Jesus’s crucifixion and resurrection rightly get the emphasis in both academic and pastoral treatments of Christ’s work. The cross and the empty tomb are the crux of God’s work of salvation, the fulcrum on which everything else included in that work—Christ’s active obedience, his ascension, etc.—hinges. What is often omitted from our understanding of the

  • 30 Modern Worship Songs & Hymns for Easter (with Scripture References)
    by Kyle Beutler on March 28, 2024

    Easter Sunday is right around the corner. As you prepare for your service, meditating on the glory of the cross, take a look at these Good Friday and Easter worship songs and hymns. Some are traditional, some are contemporary, and some are somewhere in between—but all are excellent options to celebrate Resurrection Sunday. Plus, you’ll

  • Endurance Produced by Suffering: The Black Church in America
    by Malcolm Foley on March 26, 2024

    American Christianity is, in many ways, a cultural and denominational hodgepodge. Colonization led to certain emphases among American Presbyterians, Anglicans, and Baptists. And as Pentecostalism, Methodism, and others were added to the American landscape, the range of religious possibilities increased all the more.

  • What Is Holy Week?
    by Blake Adams on March 25, 2024

    For Catholics, Orthodox, and many Protestants, Holy Week is the most sacred time of the year. Traditionally, it is more important than Christmas, as it focuses on the central event of the gospel: the death and resurrection of Jesus. Contents The Paschal Mystery Holy Week is an anticipation of the Lord’s Paschal Mystery. Pascha is