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Eschatology

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Who will be taken? Who will be left behind? Darn it, we’re all too late anyway! 2 Sep 2021
Resurrection in the Old Testament: literal or metaphorical? 28 Aug 2021
Thom Stark on the coming of the Son of Man: the Bible gets it right, Jesus gets it wrong? 16 Aug 2021
Did Jesus say that he would return within the lifetime of his disciples? 1 Jul 2021
The throne of Jesus and the throne of God 6 May 2021
Whose names are written in the book of life? 16 Apr 2021
The kingdom of God—temporal or spiritual? 2 Mar 2021
The order of the descending city visions in Revelation and why it matters to us 24 Feb 2021
Why the “bride, the woman of the Lamb” is not what I thought it was 22 Feb 2021
So here’s the real reason why the holy city descends twice at the end of Revelation 20 Feb 2021
Why does the holy city Jerusalem descend from heaven twice at the end of Revelation? 18 Feb 2021
Apocalyptic thinking and the fate of the dead in the New Testament 16 Feb 2021
The sinfulness and salvation of all Israel in Romans 10 Feb 2021
What does the New Testament teach us about hope? 1 Feb 2021
Is there only one way to heaven? 21 Jan 2021
Now available! Hell and Heaven in Narrative Perspective (second edition) 12 Jan 2021
What did Paul mean by the groaning of creation? Does the argument work today? 10 Dec 2020
New Testament eschatological texts categorised by horizon 3 Dec 2020
The narrative architecture of Jesus’ apocalyptic discourse in Mark 13 25 Nov 2020
Do we have two “ends” in Jesus’ apocalyptic discourse in Mark? 24 Nov 2020
How the context makes sense of the separation of the “sheep” and “goats” at the parousia 20 Nov 2020
The ends of the ages: church in the Anthropocene 21 Oct 2020
What happened to the promised land? It became the promised empire 8 Oct 2020
Woke Church, heaven, and a slight problem with the great multi-ethnic multitude 1 Oct 2020
How Paul can proclaim one Lord Jesus Christ and not compromise Jewish monotheism 21 Sep 2020
Dissonance-reducing rationalisations of failed expectations in the early church. Or not 11 Sep 2020
Getting the mission of the church “right”: the whole point of justification 8 Sep 2020
Make for yourselves friends of unrighteous mammon: the parable of the self-serving business manager 1 Sep 2020
So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you: the parable of the unforgiving slave 29 Aug 2020
What will happen to the lost sheep who take offence at being found? 24 Aug 2020
Why will Sodom and Gomorrah be present on the day of God’s judgment against Israel? 20 Aug 2020
When should we expect a day of the Lord? 17 Aug 2020
Jesus and the empire to come 23 Jul 2020
Daniel, desolation, and the decreed destruction of the desolator 9 Jul 2020
Speaking in tongues (glossolalia) in narrative-historical perspective 6 Jul 2020
Opposite-sex relationships and the narratives of evangelical mission 2 Jul 2020
Should evangelicals be reading the signs of the times? 17 Jun 2020
A great and terrible day of the Lord? 8 Jun 2020
How, why and when to work out your own salvation with fear and trembling 4 Mar 2020
Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so? 27 Feb 2020
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