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I will be participating in the Attaching to God Summit, October 15-17. This online summit will focus on how to grow a deeper relationship with God. The sub-title… — October 1, 2024

Here's my recent sermon, "Lowly Servants, Holy Saints" on Philippians 1:1-2, preached at Calvary Church of Souderton on May 5, 2024. My main point: Servants and saints share… — June 3, 2024

The seminar on sexual abuse that I co-led in Oct 2023 with Lisa Radcliff was recorded and is now available in two parts with youtube videos. I spoke… — November 12, 2023

On June 4, 2023, I was interviewed about The Emotions of God for both services at New Hope Church, Portland, Oregon by John Rosensteel (pastor) and Carolyn Lu… — June 8, 2023

Here are links to a few recent podcast I've done, mainly related to my book, The Emotions of God. The Netzer Podcast, The Quite Reformation: "God, You're Soooooo… — May 4, 2023

My book, The Emotions of God: Making Sense of a God Who Hates, Weeps and Loves has been selected as a finalist for the InterVarsity Press Readers Choice Awards 2022.… — January 18, 2023

A talk given at Samil Church, Seoul, South Korea (October, 2022). — November 1, 2022

My latest book The Emotions of God: Making Sense of a God Who Hates, Weeps, and Loves comes out in November, 2022. If this sounds interesting to you, come… — October 4, 2022

I started working on my commentary for 1-2 Kings in 2012. My doctoral dissertation was focused on 2 Kings (the dynasty of Jehu), so I was excited to… — November 18, 2021

I got a question from a student today asking about capitalizing pronouns for God. Here is her email: Many times when I am writing, when it refers to God,… — June 19, 2020

Here’s my sermon on Persistent Prayer (Luke 18:1-8) at SaRang Church, Seoul, South Korea (31 minutes; Nov 2019). — November 10, 2019

Scot McKnight invited me to respond to questions about John Goldingay's translation of the Old Testament, The First Testament. Here are my responses just posted on Scot's blog,… — February 18, 2019

Since 1946, God has spoken to over 300,000 students at the Urbana conference about missions and what he is doing around the world. The conference started in Toronto,… — December 19, 2018

I leave today (Oct 25) to travel to Korea for 12 days.  I will be speaking at one of the largest churches in Korea, SaRang (which means "Love")… — October 24, 2017

Christianity Today invited me review Brent Strawn's The Old Testament is Dying: A Diagnosis and Recommended Treatment. Here is my review (titled, "Man shall not live on the New Testament alone").… — August 2, 2017

Despite the malaria, it was one of the highlights of my life. In the summer of 1985, I went on a summer mission project to Nigeria.  We taught… — March 31, 2017

IVP has just come out with a new book which could be very helpful to people trying to figure out how to understand the laws of the Old… — February 10, 2017

As we were driving down the highway recently as a family, I informed my college-age sons that a recent album (Reflektor) released by one of their favorite bands (Arcade… — January 25, 2017