How to Kill Sin Now
Lots of people struggle with sin. They long to break free but don't know how. They hear the promise of scripture that there's freedom in...
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The State of New Testament Studies: A Quick Review
The contributions fall into four major sections. Part 1 is on the ancient context of the New Testament and attends to the relationship...
Matt O'Reilly
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Not Rapture, Rescue (It’s Good to Be Left Behind)
Plenty of people are expecting the rapture, an event in which Christians are all taken up from the earth into heaven. The problem is that...
Matt O'Reilly
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Deep Happiness, John Wesley, and the Beatitudes
As a pastor, I can’t help but think how many Christians might – at one time or another – diagnose their devotional (un)health...
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Introducing the So What? Podcast (@sowhat_podcast)
I’m excited to share with readers that I’ve recently begun contributing to the So What? Podcast, which is produced by People of Mars Hill...
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Easter Means Mission
Our celebrations of Christ’s resurrection at Easter tend to be narrowly focused. The focus, all too often, drills down onto the...
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Here’s My New Seven Minute Seminary: Resurrection and the Christian Afterlife (@OfficialSeedbe
Here’s the latest installment of Seedbed’s Seven Minute Seminary series in which I discuss several questions related to life after death,...
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New Podcast: Body of Christ, Bread of Life @StMarkMobile #UMC
http://www.podbean.com/media/player/audio/postId/5402610/url/http%253A%252F%252Fstmarkumc.podbean.com%252Fe%252Fbody-of-christ-bread-of-l...
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3 Reasons for Reading Backwards with Richard Hays (@Baylor_Press)
After attending part of the review panel for Richard Hays’ new short book, Reading Backwards: Figural Christology and the Fourfold Gospel...
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Does the Doctrine of the Trinity Matter? @OfficialSeedbed #7MinuteSeminary
I’m grateful to the team at Seedbed for the opportunity to contribute to the Seven Minute Seminary series of short videos. Here’s one on...
Matt O'Reilly
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Epiphany and Gospel-Passion for the Nations
Today is Epiphany, the day on which the Church celebrates the arrival of the Magi to honor and give gifts to the Christ child. The Magi...
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Around the Links: The Virgin Birth (@LarryWHurtado @triablogue @ScotMcKnight @DouglasWils)
The doctrine of the virgin birth (or, more properly, the virginal conception) has had a little extra attention around the web in recent...
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The Desire of God
“For God so loved the world” may be the most well-known and oft memorized verse of scripture ever. And rightly so. It summarizes the...
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Why Did Jesus Speak in Parables?
You don’t have to read many books on preaching to find the common notion that Jesus’ parables were basically like sermon illustrations....
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Enemy Love and the Challenge of Holiness (#andcanitbe)
Here’s an extended quote from Marcus Borg that does a great (and somewhat discomforting) job applying Jesus’ command for enemy love by...
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360-Degree Holiness: @calvintsamuel Lectures @WesleyBiblical (#andcanitbe)
I finally got around to downloading and listening to the Chamberlain Holiness Lectures delivered last fall by Rev. Dr. Calvin T. Samuel...
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The Promise of Peace: Christmas in the Wake of Tragedy
When I began preparing my sermon for last Sunday on the topic of Christmas and the promise of peace, I didn’t know I would deliver it...
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Advent and the Reality of the Kingdom
I’m preaching a series of four sermons on Luke 1-2 this Advent that focus on four promises that are kept in the events surrounding the...
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Understanding the Little Apocalypse: Three things to remember about Matthew 24
Everything Jesus says is his answer to the question raised by the disciples in 24:3. And their question is primarily looking for a bit of...
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Inerrancy and Interpretation (2): More on the Licona Controversy
#BookReviews #Gospels #Hermeneutics #Scripture
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Catching a Fresh Vision of Faith
Read the rest of this post offering four brief reflections on faith at Seedbed. _____ Image: Janaka Dharmasena/FreeDigitalPhotos.net...
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