In keeping with the cooking theme of this blog series on basic hermeneutics, I consulted a professional chef about how to write a professional recipe. Here is part of the answer: “Spell out everything (tablespoons, ounces, etc.) … If the…

Today I’ll take a break from my “Serve It Up” blog series. A paraprosdokian (from the Greek “beyond” + “expectation”) is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a statement is unexpected. It’s a rhetorical term used…

We’re still in the kitchen, friends. I hope you can stand the heat. If you haven’t been following the blog, we’re trying to cook up a fantastic smorgasbord of the best approaches to sound exegesis. We want to do the…

Thanks for hanging in there with me as we continue to whip up a super-savory recipe that will highlight the very best flavors of hermeneutical cuisine. Last time we focused on the “plain sense” principle of literal interpretation: going after…

So here we go again on this journey of learning to rightly divide the Word … What are we claiming when we say that we interpret the Bible literally? Bill Maher, no fan of evangelicals, has said that the Bible…

When it comes to God’s Word, you and I have been invited to a succulent feast. I love Paul’s reminder to Timothy (Second Timothy 2:16): “Avoid irreverent babble …” Those are good words, reminding us of the dangers of not-so-good…

I won’t write much today except to tell you that our FBC Paducah family has continued to serve our community this week. Despite the unseasonably chilly tee-off time, yesterday’s Sunrise Golf Tournament at the Country Club of Paducah afforded our…

Saturday was such a blessing for me as I soaked in (literally and figuratively) all the real-life community service that our church family was doing, in and around Paducah, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. I was splashed…

If you’ve been reading my blog for long, you know that – from time to time – I like to take up the matter of truth. What is the nature of truth? What does it mean for something to be…

How should we “do” worship? Sometimes there are about as many answers to that question as there are people. Some of our friends want to recapture evangelicalism’s former “glory years” by holding on to the past. Others want to revamp…