I have always liked big churches. I realize that’s not really the “in” thing to say, but it’s the honest truth. What I like about big churches isn’t necessarily spiritual, just personal. I like the resources big churches have to do big things for God. I like the momentum big churches have to keep moving forward…
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This week saw the release of the 7th horrifying video detailing the practices of Planned Parenthood’s abortion and “harvesting” practices. Personally, I cannot watch it. While the vast majority of Christians are rightly opposed to abortion, the question of how best to respond to Planned Parenthood is complicated. On the one hand, some Christians…
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Hey Dr. Smith, I have a question. I’m doing a NT theology paper on the theology of 2 Peter & Jude, but I’m also preaching this weekend at our church. Jude 12 talks about “love feasts,” I’m curious if you believe this is referring to communion or not? I am inclined to think so, esp.…
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Anyone who has read the Bible with serious intent to understand it will almost certainly have come across the occasional strange annotation, often in a footnote, that says something like “Many manuscripts…” or “the earliest manuscripts and many others…”, followed by a reading that differs a bit from what’s in the body of the text.…
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Several news outlets are reporting that biblical scholars Craig Evans and Daniel Wallace are working with a team that may have uncovered the earliest known copy of the Gospel of Mark. You can see full articles with all the details here and here. In short, this fragment of the Gospel of Mark has been found in a paper mache…
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Here’s an interesting question I was recently asked to address: how do we know that the serpent in Eden (Genesis 3:1) was actually the devil? A distinct, but closely related question that I’ve been asked at other times is this: is the serpent in Genesis 3 literal or symbolic? The first question is rather easily…
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We all know the old adage: if it looks too good to be true, it probably is. But what about when the thing that looks too good to be true comes from someone we have every reason to trust explicitly, like Jesus? In John 14:13-14, it is reported that Jesus said this: “Whatever you ask…
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In the past few years, interest in the Book of Enoch (also called Enoch and 1 Enoch) has experienced something of a revival. It is referenced in numerous popular fiction works that make use of the Nephilim and is even quoted in what appears to be an authoritative way by some supposedly Christian teachers like…
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Note: Shepherd Project does not endorse the worldview or assumptions present in the following resources. They are presented here because the evidence they refer to supports the historical reliability of the Genesis account of the Flood. The fact that these predominantly secular – and in some cases even anti-Christian – organizations acknowledge this evidence is…
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If you haven’t already heard, you probably will soon: a recent archaeological find in Israel has sparked a new round of attacks on the historical reliability of the Bible. In short, Dr. Erez Ben-Yosef and Dr. Lidar Sapir-Hen, of Tel Aviv University have recently released the findings of their study of the Aravah Valley (on…
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