Greg Gibson | Family Ministries Pastor Foothills Church, Knoxville, Tennessee JBMW 20.2 [Fall 2015] **************************************************************** We’ve all heard it before—stories, that is, from people reminiscing about the “good ol’ days” when they were kids. “When I was a boy,” they say with an antiquated shimmer in their eye, “we could roam the streets, climb the tallest of...

Andrew David Naselli Assistant Professor of New Testament and Biblical Theology Bethlehem College & Seminary, Minneapolis, Minnesota JBMW 20.2 [Fall 2015] **************************************************************** Pornography is to sex slavery what gasoline is to the engines of motor vehicles. Gas fuels engines. Pornography fuels sex slavery. Sex slavery and pornography are not two disconnected issues. They are organically connected...

Jason Meyer | Pastor for Preaching and Vision Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota JBMW 20.2 [Fall 2015] **************************************************************** For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not...

We’re excited to announce the release of JBMW Fall 2015. You can download the entire journal as a PDF or each individual article. Subscribe here to receive your print copy of JBMW. Also, listen to what our editor Dr. Jason Duesing had to say in the editorial for this edition (see below). The Self-Reliant Conscience of Evangelical Stoicism [PDF]...

Brandon D. Smith | HCSB Manager B&H Publishing Group, Nashville, Tennessee JBMW 20.2 [Fall 2015] **************************************************************** How does one apply the Bible to today’s life in a way that is fair to the text? This is a crucial question for Christians today. Bible readers must answer questions about cultural language and setting, literary forms such as...

Ben Montoya | Associate Pastor Chinese Gospel Church, Toronto, Ontario Doctoral Candidate McMaster Divinity College Hamilton, Ontario JBMW 20.2 [Fall 2015] **************************************************************** Throughout my education, teachers employed analogies; they did so to help us understand difficult concepts by way of comparison. But they also required them of us to gauge our comprehension of subjects. The latter...