This fall I’ll be publishing my new book How a 25-Year-Old Learned He Wasn’t the Only One Going to Heaven. If you’d like updates, you can follow my blog by entering your email address or using the WordPress app. The… Read More »New Book Coming this Fall
If you’ve read some of my writings about what is typically called the Restoration Movement, you may wonder how I could write this article, but one of the reasons I write so much on the Stone-Campbell movement or the American… Read More »Why I Love the Church of Christ
Laura and I recently began rereading Brian McLaren’s novel A New Kind of Christian. In the introduction, he talks about the process of paradigm change: stability, discontinuity, disembedding, transition, and reformation. As he described what each of these stages meant,… Read More »The Process of Paradigm Change (pt. 1)
Quick crash course on Revelation 1. When was Revelation written?2. When would Revelation be fulfilled?3. Was it fulfilled when John said it would be? 1. When was Revelation written? There are three major positions held among churches of Christ: before… Read More »Quick Crash Course on Revelation (April 18-24, 2021)
The closest background to our passage is in OT descriptions of “the day of the Lord,” which seem to envisage an obscuration that affects the entire world, not just a particular country (see Joel 2:1–2, 10, 30–31; Amos 8:9–10). Marcus,… Read More »The Signs of the Cross (Part 2)
Recently, my friend Dr. William Bell did a video on the signs surrounding the Cross. I haven’t listened to the video yet, but I was talking briefly to Dr. Dallas Burdette, and he suggested I write a few things on… Read More »The Signs of the Cross (Part 1)
The following quotation is taken from a conversation between Justin Martyr and Trypho that can be found in Dialogue of Justin with Trypho, a Jew chapter 80. But before I give it to you, allow me to set the stage… Read More »Justin Martyr, Trypho, and the Resurrection
Love allows for not insisting on one’s own integrity at the expense of the unity of the community. Stendahl, Krister. Paul among Jews and Gentiles and Other Essays. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1976. Print. p. 67 I’ve had the pleasure… Read More »Love Rather than Integrity
Guilty of the Whole Law “For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all” (James 2:10). I heard Christians use this passage all throughout my childhood to talk about Christians who… Read More »Guilty of the Whole Law (March 21-27, 2021)
He’s making a list, And checking it twice; Gonna find out Who’s naughty and nice. Santa Claus is coming to town He sees you when you’re sleeping He knows when you’re awake He knows if you’ve been bad or good… Read More »Is God like Santa Claus?