Gary Shogren's Blog
I have a new AUTHOR WEBSITE! All of my books - English and Spanish - described and with links to purchase them. Share with your friends! Commentary on 1 CorinthiansCommentary on 1-2 ThessaloniansMyths that We Christians Accept and Pass along to OthersIceberg Ahead! When God's Servants Crash into Cold, Hard RealityTools on New Testament GreekAnd... Continue Reading →
Reading is a great tool for fending off mental sluggishness and for lifelong learning! I gave a talk on it here: “Christian Leaders and LifelongLearning.” Or to put it another way: “The man who does not read,” said Mark Twain, “has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” In 2025 I read (or listened... Continue Reading →
I was just reading 1 Samuel, and got to this passage: Saul and his servant were searching for two donkeys from his father’s herd and could not seem to locate them. Saul thinks they had better head home: But [the servant] said to [Saul], “Behold, there is a man of God in this city, and... Continue Reading →
Am I mistaken, or does the cover look like the Titanic? Gary: Interesting story: the book had its start back in 2012. I was asked to give a conference to missionaries working in Spain. I wanted to address: How do we process disappointment in our ministries? It happened to be the 100th anniversary of the Titanic sinking, and suddenly I... Continue Reading →
Greetings from Gary Shogren! Who are we? Every year we open a Facebook "club", whose members can learn a new ancient language (we have done Biblical Aramaic, Latin) or read Scripture in the original languages (the whole Septuagint; the Torah; the Hebrew Poets and Latter Prophets; the New Testament, twice; also the Apostolic Fathers). For... Continue Reading →
Frank W. R. Benoit, Not by Ignorance: An Explanation of Cessationism (Sisters, OR: Deep River Books, 2020; Spanish first edition 2017, Sevilla, España), 264 pp. $15.99 paperback. The FULL review in English is available HERE.The full review in Spanish is available HERE.In both cases, the reviews are copyrighted and sponsored by The Foundation for Pentecostal... Continue Reading →
Ebook from KindlePaperback from Amazon Spanish ebook from KindleSpanish paperback from Amazon or from CLIE The 21st century, that digital arena where information and misinformation battle for our attention! To be sure, the internet can render up solid facts, for instance: “Who won Super Bowl XLVII in 2013?” But the very same medium also lures... Continue Reading →
To my dear ESEPA coworkers, to the graduates, and to their families and friends.As we celebrate this special evening, let me share a few words from the heart. They are based on this amazing promise in 2 Timothy: 2 Timothy 4:8 NIV – “Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which... Continue Reading →
I agree with so much of the 9Marks paradigm. Sound doctrine? Check! Preach the gospel? Right! Biblical preaching? Oh, yeah! Missions? Amen! Baptism? Discipleship? Right on, right on!!No women in leadership? Hold on... You see, they had me, then they lost me. It's not so much that I disagree with them on the point. (Which... Continue Reading →
I affirm that, of course, the canon is closed. But beyond that, there are those who use Revelation to prove that the gift of prophecy must have gone extinct, because of the dark double curse found in Rev 22:18-19: For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If... Continue Reading →
Open Our Eyes, Lord! 