Thoughts on the Bible and Life
The Gospel of Matthew has a special emphasis on the kingdom of God, which he usually calls “the kingdom of heaven.” What do we know about this kingdom? Nature Joyful: a huge feast (8:11) and the place where Jesus will drink new wine with his disciples (26:29) Pure: at the end of the age a … Read more
I spent too much time making this video, but the topic has been incredibly important in biblical studies during the last 240 years.
The apostle Paul was extremely bright. Some even think he was a genius. For two thousand years people have been reading his letters and working hard to understand them. In the past five centuries, German, English, and American scholars have expended a great deal of effort digging into Paul’s writings. Thanks to N. T. Wright … Read more
E. Stanley Jones (1884-1973) was an American Methodist missionary to India. In 1925 he published a book called The Christ of the Indian Road, which emphasizes the need to detach Jesus from Western culture. Under British rule it was easy for Indians to associate Jesus with the white man and the Western world, especially since … Read more
Why did Jesus wrap a towel around his waist and wash his disciples’ feet? Why did he make “himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant” (Phil. 2:7)? Here’s what he says in John 5: “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he … Read more