Success is an interesting thing. Unless we clearly outline metrics and define what success actually looks like, it’s up to the eye of the beholder. So the programmatic rat race in most churches continues. Most churches merely exist to keep running their programs and services. They are not developing leaders intentionally and consistently. When leaders […]

I appreciate to get some help the syntax of Mt 11:29 come out clear. ἄρατε τὸν ζυγόν μου ἐφ’ ὑμᾶς καὶ μάθετε ἀπ’ ἐμοῦ, ὅτι πραΰς εἰμι καὶ ταπεινὸς τῇ καρδίᾳ καὶ εὑρήσετε ἀνάπαυσιν ταῖς ψυχαῖς ὑμῶν: ARATE TON ZUGON MOU EF’ hUMAS KAI MAQETE AP’ EMOU hOTI PRAUS EIMI KAI TAPEINOS THi KARDIAi KAI […]

Does anyone have any thoughts about the use of the double article in hO hUIOS TOU ANQRWPOU which Jesus used of himself many times? He even asked the newly healed man who had been born blind, if he knew who “The son of the man is”. Stephen used it too when he saw Jesus at […]

Dear List, I am curious about the following: Ἀκούσας δὲ ὁ Ἰησοῦς εἶπεν, Αὕτη ἡ ἀσθένεια οὐκ ἔστιν πρὸς θάνατον, ἀλλʼ ὑπὲρ τῆς δόξης τοῦ θεοῦ, ἵνα δοξασθῇ ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ θεοῦ διʼ αὐτῆς. AKOUSAS DE hO IHSOUS EIPEN, AUTH hH ASQENEIA OUK ESTIN PROS QANATON, ALL’ hUPER DOXHS TOU QEOU, hINA DOXASQHi hO hOIOS […]

He spent Christmas in prison. Andrew Brunson is an American citizen who has been serving as a pastor in Turkey for more than 23 years. He and his wife raised their family there. Over two months ago, he was unexpectedly detained and has been unfairly charged with being a member of an armed terrorist organization […]

In John 9:3, Jesus says, οὔτε οὗτος ἥμαρτεν οὔτε οἱ γονεῖς αὐτοῦ, ἀλλ᾽ ἵνα φανερωθῇ τὰ ἔργα τοῦ θεοῦ ἐν αὐτῷ. Greg Boyd and Nigel Turner maintain that the ἵνα should be understood as an “imperatival ἵνα” in order to avoid having Jesus say that the blindness was “for the purpose” of revealing God’s works. […]