I'm grateful to Brian Godawa for his post today encouraging everyone in the evangelical orbit to read The Unseen Realm. I believe he's right -- it is indeed a game-changer. If people give it a read they will never be able to read their Bible the same way again. I know...
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Shaun Tabatt Interview with Mike Heiser on The Unseen Realm
Shaun Tabatt of Cross Focused Media interviewed me a short time ago about my book, The Unseen Realm. It was a good interview, as Shaun was quite familiar with the content (here is his interview page). You can watch the interview here: Readers should know that all...
Reviews of The Unseen Realm
Now that we're ten days into the launch of The Unseen Realm, reviews are starting to pop up on the web. Here are the ones I've found or have had sent to me. Please read them and, even more importantly, share them on Facebook and other social media. It's important that...
Mike Heiser and Darrell Bock in Conversation about The Unseen Realm
A few folks have commented recently (at work and in email) about enjoying my chat with Darrell Bock on Faithlife Today. We talked about my book, The Unseen Realm. For those who haven't seen that, here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omjhzf4MVQ4
Part 2 of Mike’s Interview on the Trinities Podcast
Here's the second half of my interview with Prof. Tuggy on his Trinities podcast. Enjoy!
Biblical Theology, Poverty, and Social Justice, Part 7
Time to get back to this series! Review of Earlier Part 6 It's been a while since I posted Part 6 of this study/discussion. Hopefully by now many of you have read the two items I linked to in Part 6: "Poverty and Poor: New Testament" from Anchor Bible Dictionary "Rich...
Naked Bible Podcast Episode 027: What is a Proverb?
In the last podcast episode we continued our series on studying the Bible in light of its various types of literature its literary genres. We looked at parables and offered some guidelines for interpreting them. In this episode, we're going to briefly look at...
Interesting Article on Phoebe as a Deacon
I hope to post again on baptism this weekend, but in the meantime, here is an interesting (short) article on the Greek descriptions of Phoebe. I've posted on the "women in ministry" issue a bit before, so I figured some of you might be interested in this. Previous...
Book Recommendation Related to the Inspiration Discussion
Some of the posts on this topic have dealt with the looseness of how NT authors quote / use the OT. I've given a couple of examples, but if you want to see how thorny the issues are, I recommend a recent book on the subject--nay, an entire commentary on this...
Looking at the Inerrancy Definitions, Part 1
Let me say at the outset that I personally have no problem with the word "inerrancy" and want to embrace such a doctrine as an evangelical. My problem is that I'm not sure how to articulate what the word should mean so that it's honest, defensible, and coherent. I...
The Image of God and Imaging God
The Image of God and Imaging God What does it actually mean for human beings to be created in the image of God? In this lecture, Dr. Michael Heiser examines the biblical language of Genesis 1:26–27 and challenges several common explanations of the image of God....
Why I’m Not on the Bandwagon with Christian Nephilim Hunters
Well, there are several reasons that I could go into at length, but you really don't need any more of an explanation than this essay by Jason Colavito. What he's shooting at is a testament to poor thinking, shoddy research (biblical and otherwise), incoherent...
Two New Kindle Books — Notes on Leviticus and Acts from the Naked Bible Podcast
I'm happy to announce that there are two new Kindle books available: Notes on Leviticus from the Naked Bible Podcast ($0.99) Notes on the Book of Acts from the Naked Bible Podcast ($0.99) As you might guess from the titles, these are edited version of the transcripts...
Mike Interviewed by Calvary Chapel Pastor (Soaring Eagle Radio) about The Divine Council
Mike Spaulding, host of Soaring Eagle Eadio, is a Calvary Chapel pastor in Lima, OH. The interview took place before the launch of The Unseen Realm.
Amazing First Day for Unseen Realm
The launch of my book, The Unseen Realm, has been a great success. The good news is that, earlier in the day, the Kindle edition hit #1 on Amazon's "Hot New Releases" for Theology. It now stands (as of this post) at #2 The "bad" news is that we've learned that the...