7 Days for 7 Titles — No More Guile & Jacob’s Ladder (John 1:29-2:1)
“The sequence of days in John 1… is a deliberate reconstruction of the creative week of Genesis 1.” — N.T. Wright, (John for Everyone) In the previous post on John, we…
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Bible In Context: Gospel of John (Class Audio & Slides)
“In the biblical understanding, knowledge of God does not come through inference alone, but through participation in God’s action. One comes to know by entering into the reality being revealed.”…
An Introduction to Sonship: John 1:6-18
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not…
John 1:1-5 — A Jewish Mystic Prologue to a Greco-Roman World
Almost a year ago, we did an introduction to the Gospel of John. It was an attempt to cross off a decade-old New Year’s resolution that turned into writing a…
What Does John 14:6 Mean? In Context, History, & Evangelicalism
John 14:6 has been widely debated in Christian circles, often used to argue that Jesus is the exclusive path to salvation after death. It is often cited to argue against…
The Book on the Samaritan Woman at the Well: Updates and Reflections
A bit ago, I posted about writing a book on the Samaritan Woman at the Well. It’s underway but has evolved, grown, and shifted. I need more time with her.…
We Could Be AntiChrist: The Real Antichrists in John’s Epistles
Let's consider how our fascination with finding antichrists assumes that we aren't one. Christianity has been around now for 2000 years - that's a lot of generations of humans. What if we have been in the church and in the gospel of an antichrist the whole time? What if we are "the antichrist"? What if we've been looking at the Gospel wrong all along? The Gospel then might seem, to us antichrists, as a wrong gospel.
