Author Archives: Rick Wadholm

Bookshelf Callenge: Week 3

Posted on January 20, 2014 by Rick Wadholm

Sadly, I only added a single volume this last week. Andy Stanley and Lane Jones, Communicating for a Change (Sisters, OR: Multnomah Publishers, 2006). Stanley and Jones have done a wonderful job of communicating the need to be on point about … Continue reading →

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The Bookshelf Challenge – Week 2

Posted on January 10, 2014 by Rick Wadholm

This week I finished a few volumes: Richard J. Foster, Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1988). J. Richard Middleton, The Liberating Image: The Imago Dei in Genesis 1 (Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2005). … Continue reading →

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Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho

Posted on January 10, 2014 by Rick Wadholm

Just a fun post with a short music video because this song got stuck in my head a few days ago after a discussion of the historicity of Joshua and walls of Jericho (Joshua 6). Indeed, when the text of … Continue reading →

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Something Weird in the NIV Tradition

Posted on January 5, 2014 by Rick Wadholm

Today in church a verse was mentioned in connection with my church’s name “New Life”. The passage, Acts 5.20, was read in NIV1984 (and posted on the screen) and I turned to it in my Greek NT. To my surprise … Continue reading →

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I Can Almost See Jesus

Posted on January 2, 2014 by Rick Wadholm

I recently bought the blue-ray edition of Ben-Hur (1959) and we had a family movie night last night enjoying it. One thing, however, kept coming up. Cambria (8) kept commenting how badly she wanted to see Jesus’ face. If you … Continue reading →

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The Bookshelf Challenge

Posted on January 2, 2014 by Rick Wadholm

So here it is. I’m doing a “bookshelf challenge” for 2014. This means I will be doing a weekly photo update blog post where I intend to BRIEFLY comment on the books I’ve finished reading that week and including the … Continue reading →

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I'm Getting a Tattoo

Posted on January 1, 2014 by Rick Wadholm

Yes, you read that correctly. I am getting a tattoo. And, yes, I am still a pastor and Bible college faculty member. And I am not just getting any tattoo. The kind you are probably thinking that I am getting … Continue reading →

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Christmas Reading

Posted on December 26, 2013 by Rick Wadholm

So I thought I’d share my Christmas break reading list: Thesis Reading: God the Spirit by Michael Welker God’s Indwelling Presence by James Hamilton The Spirit of Life by Jürgen Moltmann Lecture Prep: Preaching the Whole Bible as Christian Scripture … Continue reading →

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The Future of Biblical Interpretation: A Book Review

Posted on December 21, 2013 by Rick Wadholm

Thanks to IVP Academic for providing a review copy of Porter, Stanley E. and Matthew R. Malcolm, eds., The Future of Biblical Interpretation: Responsible Plurality in Biblical Hermeneutics (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2013), 176pp. I offer the following review … Continue reading →

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Daniel Block on Inductive Study

Posted on December 11, 2013 by Rick Wadholm

Daniel Block offers some basic (but essential) advice to students of Scripture to study the text as primary, rather than turning to other sources first. “When you are wrestling with biblical texts, wrestle with the texts.” (see more at Koinonia).

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