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Fishers of people, labourers for the harvest, and the mission of Jesus’ disciples 14 Mar 2023
Why should a man be thrown into Gehenna for having looked lustfully at a woman? 1 Mar 2023
Answering Mike Bird about the referent of "all things" in 1 Corinthians 8:6 24 Jan 2023
How we got from kingdom to Trinity: Constantine and pagan monotheism 15 Jan 2023
Biblical hermeneutics and the destabilising of the world 15 Nov 2022
Where is the promise of his coming? 25 Oct 2022
How did Jesus’ disciples imagine that he would “redeem Israel”? 13 Sep 2022
Why the outpouring of the Spirit on the day of Pentecost marked an end, not a beginning 2 Sep 2022
When prophecy mostly didn’t fail 22 Jun 2022
What does Luke’s account of Paul’s visit to Athens tell us about how to do “missional church”? 20 May 2022
Jesus and the judgment of the Watchers 28 Mar 2022
What is the eschatological wisdom of God up to these days? 22 Mar 2022
James Tabor’s failed failed apocalypse of the New Testament argument 7 Mar 2022
Who was the man without a wedding garment at the wedding feast? 1 Mar 2022
The stones will cry out 16 Feb 2022
What Jesus has to teach us about our response to the climate crisis 5 Jan 2022
The Apocalyptic Symbolism of Mark 8:38 and (not) the Final Reign of God 26 Nov 2021
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
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