Alright, so after John’s introduction in 1:1-8, one thing is clear: God rules, and Christ is king—so don’t despair, even though you might be suffering persecuti...
As I begin to go through Revelation, I think it would be smart to first address the pink elephant in the room: the book of Revelation is not a prediction of a f...
Whenever I taught the book of Revelation to my high school students, one of the first things I did was this. I’d take any object, put it on the table in the fro...
***NOTE: This originally was a short little piece I wrote for the Regent College newspaper back in 1997…it never got published, but it is a piece of writi...
Here we come to the end of Romans, where Paul sums up his argument for unity in the Church. Romans 15:1-6 After his comments on “food and drink,” and how Jews s...
The final section of Paul’s argument in Romans is found in 14:1-15:13. It deals with relationships within the community of faith. Or to put it another way, it t...
News flash: Christians are not called to live only within their Christian community. They also have live in the real world, with pagans and secular (and sometim...
With all that “Gospel theology” in Romans 1-8, and then the questions regarding ethnic Israel now explained in Romans 9-11, Paul turns his attention to explaini...
In Romans 11, Paul wraps up his argument of Romans 9-11. Remember, Romans 9-11 is all focused on the issue regarding why Paul’s fellow Jews missed out and rejec...
Before we move on to Romans 10, I want to point out that we must realize that the issues Paul is addressing in 9-11 are issues he had been dealing with for year...