The kingdom of God is one of the most exciting and intriguing topics in the Bible. My previous post focused on the “kingdom of heaven” in Matthew. Since Matthew’s “kingdom of heaven” is synonymous with the “kingdom of God,” I thought it would be best to include the remaining New Testament references to God’s kingdom
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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
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I spent too much time making this video, but the topic has been incredibly important in biblical studies during the last 240 years.
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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
E. Stanley Jones (1884-1973) was an American Methodist missionary to India. In 1925 he published a groundbreaking book titled The Christ of the Indian Road. Since many missionaries came to India from the West, Jesus was associated with the white man and the Western world. But Jones argued that this was unhealthy because Jesus was
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