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Celebrating the Centennial: Remembering God’s Great Deeds in Scripture
God’s people had been in exile, with no king or temple, for seventy years (Jer 25:12;…
Healing Trauma on the Farm
It’s a crisp morning, and a breeze brings barnyard smells while a volunteer reads Llama Llama…
God-Given Dreams: Nehemiah and Following God’s Instruction
Knock, knock. I stood praying in the kitchen when the unexpected knock on the front door…
God Has Called You to Lead—Don’t Do It Alone
Learning to lead often feels lonely. The pathway can be obscured by uncertainty, ambiguity, and volatility…
DTS Women Take Center Stage at GodTalks
Kabwe Benaya looked out at the crowded auditorium as Dallas Theological Seminary’s Department of Educational Ministries…
A Good Word: πιστός – Faithful
Memories from my childhood bring a mix of emotions. My parents divorced when I was five,…
DTS Launches the Billy Graham Scholar’s Program
From its beginning one hundred years ago, Dallas Theological Seminary has stood on the motto “Preach…
A Good Word: χάρις – Grace
Matthew 18:23–35 recounts one of Jesus’s well-known parables in which a servant, after being forgiven an…
A Theological Conversation with AI: Michael J. Svigel’s The AItheist
Readers know the faculty of Dallas Theological Seminary as authors of some of the most insightful,…
A Good Word: υἱοθεσία – Adoption
Many people have personal experience with adoption–either as an adopter, an adoptee or knowing someone who…
A Good Word: ἀγαθός – Good
In an encounter recorded in the Gospels, a wealthy man met Jesus on the road and,…
International Alumnus Profile: Andrew Mwumvaneza
Andrew Mwumvaneza trained as a mechanical engineer in Rwanda, but then God called him into vocational…
International Alumnus Profile: Yonel Alcius
Yonel Alcius’s career was decided for him at birth. As the firstborn son of the local…
Pocketfuls of Real Treasure
Read about the contrast between worldly prosperity and eternal treasures, drawing from the experiences of Asaph…
A Good Word: ἐξουσία – Authority
When I was in college, I studied classical guitar. As you can imagine, the mix of…
Here There Be Dragons! Sailing Kids through Uncharted Biblical Waters
For many Christians, the Bible also contains unexplored, unknown regions, which are sometimes similarly associated with…
A Good Word: δόξα – Glory
Once, I watched a solar eclipse. I stared in fascination as the small circle of light…
A Good Word: εὐαγγέλιον – Gospel
You may have heard the word “gospel” (euangelion) used in two different ways. This key term…
A Good Word: βασιλεία – Kingdom
“A long time ago in a kingdom far, far away…” Many of us are familiar with…
A Good Word: ἐλπίς – Hope, Expectation
The New Testament mentions “hope” as one of the cardinal Christian virtues (along with “faith” and…
A Good Word: שָׁלוֹם – Shalom
Every language employs its own unique greeting. And although they may vary from culture to culture,…
God Wants Your Kidney! The Use of “Kidneys” in the Bible
For you formed my inward parts [kidneys];you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Psalm 139:13, 14a (ESV) The human kidneys are two reddish-brown, bean-shaped organs located on the left…
Greg和Stephen — 捐贈腎臟的友誼
Greg Hatteberg和Stephen Bramer已是超過25年的摯友。他們於1997年在達拉斯神學院相遇。Greg於1984年成為學生,後來在招生辦公室工作,現在擔任校友服務執行主任。Stephen在1992年前來DTS進修博士學位,經過在加拿大的事奉後,於1997年回到DTS擔任聖經部門教授。在DTS共事多年中,Greg和Stephen建立了一種兄弟情誼。當Stephen邀請Greg一起領導聖地旅遊時,這兩位兄弟的工作擴展到了校園之外,因為Greg已經多次去過那裡,並且與Charles Dyer博士合著了《基督徒聖地旅遊指南》(The Christian Traveler’s Guide to the Holy Land, 2014年現行版)。這兩位兄弟在困難時刻互相祈禱,包括Greg照顧妻子Sally(多發性硬化症患者),直到她在2018年去世。這一段的兄弟情誼充滿了笑聲、聖經研讀和對學生和同事的互相關心。 然而,在2022年初的一天午餐時,一次對話開始展現了令人驚嘆的兄弟之愛,從這兩位朋友身上輻射出來,彰顯出耶穌吩咐祂的門徒應該活出的那種愛:「我賜給你們一條新命令,乃是叫你們彼此相愛;我怎樣愛你們,你們也要怎樣相愛。你們若有彼此相愛的心,眾人因此就認出你們是我的門徒了。」(約翰福音13:34-35)。那天午餐時,Greg望著他的朋友說:「你看起來不太好,一切都還好嗎?」 「嗯,其實不太好,」Stephen說。「我的腎功能指數不理想,如果持續下降,我就需要新的腎臟。」 「我可以檢查一下是否與我的血型相符,」Greg回答道。「如果我是你的合適捐贈者,我會捐贈我的腎臟給你。」 Stephen感到震驚和不可思議,他知道這是一個非常嚴肅和危險的決定。但是,他也知道這正是真正的兄弟之愛,而Greg必須要為此做出如此偉大的犧牲。…
A Good Word: καυχάομαι – To take pride in, Boast
A few years ago, my son Theo got a summer job selling a particular brand of…