With the dawning of a new year, many of us have lofty goals and ambitious resolutions. Assuming our goals and resolutions are God-honoring, it’s great to set them and humbly seek to achieve them for His glory. In fact, we can be confident that in 2022 there await us “good works, which God prepared beforehand, […]
Mission is what we do. Vision is what we will see, if our vision is successful. At Bethlehem College & Seminary, our mission is simple: We teach students. That is, under the authority of God’s inerrant word, we exist to spread a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of […]
IRS joins leading nonprofit groups to highlight special charitable tax benefit available through December 31, 2021. Temporary rule helps most people get a deduction of up to $300 per individual, $600 for couples for gifts to charity without the need to itemize deductions on their tax returns to take advantage of this, which creates tax-favorable […]
You won’t find a single Christmas tree mentioned anywhere in the New Testament accounts of the first Advent (Matt 1:18–2:18; Luke 1:26–2:21). But decorating trees, even among Christians, is a mainstay of Christmas holiday tradition. What does it have to do with Advent? Henry van Dyke’s short story, “The First Christmas Tree” (1897), is a […]
Our first-year seminary guys just finished reading through 1 John. It’s remarkable. In the space of three or four months, they’ve gone from no knowledge of Greek to reading an entire New Testament letter. Are they sharp? Well, of course. Do they have a good teacher? What can I say? Is John’s Greek relatively easy? […]
Back in mid-2020 (remember then?), we all chuckled at the use of the word “unprecedented” when talking about the times we were living through. Now the repeated refrain is how hard the last 18 months have been and how much we’ve been through. Yet the reason we hear this refrain so often is because it’s […]
I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted. Job 42:2 We write in the hope that you will support The Serious Joy Scholarship at Bethlehem College & Seminary, the instrument that permits our students to receive a Bible-saturated, academically rigorous “Education in Serious Joy” and then […]
At Christmastime, most people skip the genealogy of Jesus in Matthew 1. But a study of this genealogy yields many valuable insights, a number of which focus on the five women listed among Jesus’ ancestors: Tamar (v. 3), Rahab (v. 5), Ruth (v. 5), Bathsheba (v. 6), and Mary (v. 16). The first four were […]