Perfecting the General Superintendent Plan: Global Methodist Bishops (part 6)
Earlier installments in this series have been devoted to commending the General Superintendent/TLC Plan and critiquing the Florida/Hybrid...
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When is a church not a church? | Mulholland on Revelation #UMC
…we see that orthodoxy and evangelism are the inseparable foci of a healthy church. Both must be kept in dynamic balance. Evangelism...
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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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Jerry Walls Responds to my Question on Hell (@rachelheldevans)
Jerry Walls is taking a turn in Rachel Held Evan’s “Ask a…” series, and he is answering question on hell, free will, and possibility of...
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Rough Magic: Paul and the Law in Narnian Perspective
Ever have the experience of reading a book only to have the author turn a phrase so well that it unexpectedly sheds new light on some...
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Eternal Security? How do you fall away?
The starting point must be the comparison that Paul draws between God’s attitude toward unbelieving Israel and his audience in Rome. My...
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Eternal Security? My Crucial Verse
When it comes to the so-called doctrine of eternal security (or the perseverance of the saints), the crucial passage for me is Romans...
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Why Read Revelation?
Revelation is not about the antichrist, but about the living Christ. It is not about a rapture out of this world but about faithful...
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Comfort and Affliction: The Dual Message of Revelation
About seven years ago, when I began studing the Bible and Church history with significanly increased seriousness, I discovered not only...
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Hell in the Presence of the Lamb?
“…they will drink the wine of God’s wrath, poured unmixed into the cup of his anger, and they will be tormented with fire and sulfur in...
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An Eschatology of Hope
We have seen that, when read in light of Jewish apocalyptic literature, the disappearance of the sea in Rev 21:1 paints a symbolic...
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Theory or History? The Difference is Important
It’s one thing for this to be the language of professional academic guilds, but I hope this language doesn’t work it’s way into the...
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For the Poor and the Alien: An Evangelical-Wesleyan Approach to Immigration
Let me begin by saying that the following reflections arise out of my evangelical and Wesleyan commitments. I say that up front because...
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A Wet Dedication? One More Thought on the Baptism Debate
I’ve been interacting with Mike Bird’s recent posts (1, 2) on dual baptism in which he calls paedobaptists and credobaptists to peace and...
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The Baptism Debate: Is there a middle way?
New Testament scholar Mike Bird has written two thought-provoking posts with precisely this aim of finding a middle way (part 1, part 2)....
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Eschatology is Everything
Consider, for Paul that justification is the present faith-anticipation of the eschatological verdict. Sanctification is the Spirit-life...
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Methodists and the Meaning of Membership
I was pleasantly surprised to see Bishop Will Willimon’s recent blog post on the importance of “Making Membership Mean Something.” I...
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What About Imputation? More on N.T. Wright at ETS
In a recent post, I said that N.T. Wright’s presentation at ETS surprised me with regard to two areas: his clarification regarding final...
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Belated ETS & SBL Reflections
I’m a bit behind most in the blogosphere who have already posted reflections on the recent annual gatherings of the Evangelical...
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Can We Speak of the Righteousness of Christ?
In recent debates over the Reformation doctrine of Justification, the phrase “the righteousness of Christ” has come under heavy...
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Reading Mark: An Interpretive Key
I’ve been preaching through the Gospel of Mark for nearly seven months now, and I am repeatedly considering questions regarding the...
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