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Has little Zacchaeus the tax collector been misunderstood? 22 Mar 2023
The earthquake and “hell” 13 Feb 2023
A Hindu asks a very good question about the death of Jesus and the salvation of Gentiles 28 Dec 2022
Ten things the church can learn about missions from a narrative-historical perspective 13 Oct 2022
How did Jesus’ disciples imagine that he would “redeem Israel”? 13 Sep 2022
The scandalous particularity of Jesus 23 Jan 2021
Is there only one way to heaven? 21 Jan 2021
How beautiful on the mountains were the feet of Jesus 1 Dec 2020
How do we measure the effectiveness of the missional church? Part 1 3 Nov 2020
Review: John Piper, Coronavirus and Christ 19 May 2020
Come out of her, my people… 30 Apr 2020
Scot McKnight, Matthew Bates, and Greg Gilbert on the gospel 23 Apr 2020
The gospel is changing, but there’s still some way to go 21 Apr 2020
How, why and when to work out your own salvation with fear and trembling 4 Mar 2020
How would the nations find blessing in Abraham? 31 Dec 2019
The fullness of time: why did Jesus come when he did? 11 Dec 2019
Gentiles are saved by the salvation of Israel? Really? What about this, that, and the other? 5 Dec 2019
Review of Matthew Bates, Gospel Allegiance: the ten events of the gospel allegiance creed 20 Nov 2019
Review of Matthew Bates, Gospel Allegiance. How does allegiance save? 14 Nov 2019
Review of Matthew Bates, Gospel Allegiance. What is faith? 12 Nov 2019
Review of Matthew Bates, Gospel Allegiance. What was the gospel? 8 Nov 2019
Does God intend all people to be saved? The universalism of David Bentley Hart 10 Sep 2019
The gospel for Jews and Gentiles according to Romans: a summary 26 Jun 2019
Evangelism in the age of stupid 19 Apr 2019
The salvation of the Jews by the “Author of life”—not quite in the way you might think 18 Mar 2019
Why is there no “gospel” in the Gospel of John? 21 Sep 2018
The narrative logic of salvation from the point of view of a Jewish apostle 5 Mar 2018
Gentiles needed the death of Jesus as much as Jews did, but for different reasons 3 Mar 2018
More on the narrative logic of salvation: “we have redemption through his blood” 8 Feb 2018
What Christmas teaches us about the gospel 22 Dec 2017
When is a dichotomy not a dichotomy? Tim Keller vs. Rachel Held Evans 19 Dec 2017
Faith, politics and salvation by Christ alone 15 Jun 2017
The destiny of the unevangelised (in narrative-historical perspective) 3 Jun 2017
A hermeneutical parable: the frog of the gospel and the lily pond of narrative 8 May 2017
Salvation By Allegiance Alone (5): the exegetical evidence for faith as allegiance 4 May 2017
Salvation By Allegiance Alone (4): the best bit so far 27 Apr 2017
Salvation By Allegiance Alone (3): pre-existence and the gospel of Jesus 24 Apr 2017
Salvation By Allegiance Alone (2): Paul’s gospel and the sweeping plains of history 22 Apr 2017
Salvation By Allegiance Alone (1): a review on the basis of the Introduction alone 20 Apr 2017
A conversation with Emi about salvation and mission 20 Dec 2016
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