John Mark Hicks

Delivered at the Restoration Collective in Dallas, TX, on April 21, 2026. “But a devotional and sanctifying reading of that sacred Book, is essentially different from the readings of the theologian, the moralist, the sectary, and the virtuoso of every caste and school. The man of God reads the Book of God to commune with […]

Post #4 Carthage, North Africa, in 197 CE. Tertullian describes a gathering of believers in Jesus for his Roman audience. We meet together for the reading of the divine writings, if the character of the times compels us in any way to forewarning or reminder. However that may be, with the holy words we nourish […]

PDF Version available here. I graduated from Freed-Hardeman University in 1977, and I remember well the discussions of “Crossroads” and the beginnings of a discipling ministry that grew into the Boston Movement and then the International Churches of Christ. I began full time teaching in higher education among Churches of Christ in 1982 and am […]

Below is a Spanish version of the English journal article “Searching for the Pattern” that was first published in Tέλειός/Teleios: A Journal to Promote Holistic Christian Spirituality 3, no. 1 (Winter 2023): 73-90. Translated by Wilson Silva Garcia.

English version available here. Dios llamó a Israel para guiar a las naciones y le confió los oráculos de Dios. Cuando Dios llamó a Abraham, su intención era crear una nación que bendeciera a todas las naciones. En lugar de destruir a la humanidad en la Torre de Babel, Dios optó por comenzar de nuevo […]

In the Wilderness with Israel Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,             “Today, if you hear his voice,             do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,                         as on the day of testing in the wilderness,             where your ancestors put me to the test,                         though they had seen my works for […]

A Weightier Word than the Word through Angels For to which of the angels did God ever say,             “You are my Son;                         today I have begotten you”? [quoting Psalm 2:7] Or again,             “I will be his Father,                         and he will be my Son”? [2 Samuel 7:14] And again, when he brings […]

How, then, might we read the Bible in a healthier way? This a brief introduction to reading the Bible through the lens of the story of God in Christ by Spirit. Some practical suggestions at the end.

Churches of Christ are, gratefully, a people who love the Bible, and I grew up in an era when the church knew the Bible so well. At the same time, we read the Bible in a particular way that is perhaps not as faithful to the Bible as we might have hoped. In this interview, […]

Does the Bible need interpretation? Why don’t we just read it and do it? Is interpretation necessary to do that? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQYcenGIFJo