The End Times
The NEXT 2010 conference this past weekend was characteristically outstanding. Jeff Purswell’s message on eschatology was a fitting close to the conference (amil-). Teaching from 1 Thessalonians...
View ArticleResurrection and Eschatology
Gordon Fee, God’s Empowering Presence (Hendrickson, 1994), pages 803 and 805: Probably the one feature that distances the New Testament church the most from its contemporary counterpart is its...
View ArticleJustification, The Future Become Present
George Eldon Ladd, A Theology of the New Testament (Eerdmans, 1993), pages 483–484: Justification, which primarily means acquittal at the final judgment, has already taken place in the present. The...
View ArticleWhere The New Creation Has Come To Light
From Herman Ridderbos’s classic book Paul: An Outline of His Theology, page 57: Paul’s kerygma [message] of the great time of salvation that has dawned in Christ is above all determined by Christ’s...
View ArticleThe Gospel and Eschatology
Too often we don’t equate the gospel and justification with the theme of eschatology. These themes can get separated in our minds, and each individual doctrine suffers for the disconnect, and our souls...
View ArticleLetting Go of Self-Righteousness
Paul in Galatians 6:12–15: 12 It is those who want to make a good showing in the flesh who would force you to be circumcised, and only in order that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ....
View ArticleEthics and New Creation
2 Corinthians 5:17 (NRSV) So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new! Richard Hays, The Moral Vision of the New Testament: A...
View ArticleThe Cataclysmic Cross
Galatians 6:14–15: But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. For neither circumcision counts for...
View ArticleHow Many?
Richard Gaffin, WTJ 38.3 (1975), 299: How many believers today understand themselves with the apostle as those “upon whom the ends of the ages have come” (1 Cor 10:11)? How many experience that they...
View ArticleInaugurated eschatology: What it is and why it matters
On this blog I spend quite a lot of time discussing “inaugurated eschatology,” especially when it comes to understanding how Christ’s resurrection marks the dawn of the new creation. But, you may be...
View ArticleThe Deepest Motive for Holiness and Charity
Richard B. Gaffin, By Faith, Not by Sight (Paternoster, 2006), page 78: Ultimately, in the deepest sense, for Paul “our good works” are not ours, but God’s. They are his work begun and continuing in...
View ArticleDying and Rising with Christ
One of the more stimulating reads from 2012 was for me a short 130-page book written 45 years ago by Robert Tannehill, Dying and Rising with Christ. For its brevity the book punches hard and achieves a...
View ArticleEschatological Joy, Daily Joy, and Spirit Indwelling
So often in Scripture the presence of joy comes along with the presence of the Holy Spirit (Acts 13:52; 1 Thess 1:6; Gal 5:22; Rom 14:17; 15:13). Jonathan Edwards picks up and develops this link...
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