Scripture: Romans 5
A Good Word: πιστός – Faithful
Memories from my childhood bring a mix of emotions. My parents divorced when I was five,…
Roaming Through Romans
In this episode, Darrell Bock and N.T. Wright trace through Paul’s arguments in the book of…
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 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,…
Leadership in Moments of Crisis: A Ministry of Presence
In 2 Corinthians 1:3–5, we read about God using our own experiences to enable us to…
Leading Like Jesus…with TLC
Many people use the initials TLC to mean tender, loving care. When we look at the…
Building Bridges, Cultivating Community: Leadership In Houston
LEADERSHIP EXAMPLES AT HOMEThe development of leaders begins in childhood. The qualities and character people bring…
Riot of Ephesus: The Challenge of a New Identity in Christ
Excavations at Ephesus enable us to picture what we read in Acts. Archaeologists have discovered the…
Leadership Lessons From the Life of Moses
As a young seminarian in the mid-1980s, I carried pain from my family’s past. The origin…
Portrait of a Small-Church Leader
Before I became a DTS student, my wife and I were members of Bethany Bible Church…
A Good Word: ἐξουσία – Authority
When I was in college, I studied classical guitar. As you can imagine, the mix of…
A Good Word: δόξα – Glory
Once, I watched a solar eclipse. I stared in fascination as the small circle of light…
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: καυχάομαι – To take pride in, Boast
A few years ago, my son Theo got a summer job selling a particular brand of…
Faith and Dance
In this episode, Bill Hendricks and former ballerina, Julianna Slager, discuss how to combine your passion…
The Hidden Pandemic of Pornography
In this episode, Bill Hendricks, Josh Proctor and Dr. Jay Sedwick discuss how pornography is a…
Embracing Our Mortality
In this episode, Kymberli Cook and Dr. J. Todd Billings discuss human mortality, focusing on honoring…
Walking with God Through Grief
Some of us know that a certain kind of anger in grief is not inappropriate. While…
Hope Amidst Uncertainty
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes…
A Christian Perspective on Anxiety
In this episode, Kymberli Cook, Kelly Cheatham and Jenny Wang discuss a Christian perspective on anxiety,…
Prison Ministry and Reintegration
In this episode, Kymberli Cook, Anna Schaefer, Tristan Tenny, and Dan Brygger discuss prison ministry, focusing…
Coming Out, Sexual Identity, and the Gospel
In this episode, Drs. Darrell L. Bock and Christopher Yuan discuss how Christians can effectively and…
A Hope to Discern, Embrace, and Live
Dr. Michael Ortiz, department chair of World Missions, studies Paul's letter to the Romans to help…
