On the Road to Emmaus

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Category: John (Gospel and Epistles)

Why Greek Matters (Part 5) – Closing our bowels (1 John 3:17)

25 November, 2009 (20:43) | John (Gospel and Epistles) | No comments

I’m unsure if you’ll believe me, but I am not preparing to launch into a discussion on bodily processes, but rather, New Testament Greek and the New Testament concept of love. I have often heard sincere Christian people define love as something like “acting to promote the well-being of others.” I can understand, both the perspective [...]

Why Greek Matters (Part 3) – Into the Age

18 November, 2009 (17:56) | Eschatology (Last Things), Gospels, John (Gospel and Epistles), Soteriology (Salvation) | 2 comments

The word eternity never occurs in the New Testament. Neither does the word forever.
This is the third part in a series attempting to show some of the difference it makes in reading or studying the New Testament using Greek rather than only English. Since I teach NT Greek, I am often asked regarding the purpose [...]

Resurrection and New Creation (Part 2) – Whirlwind Tour of the Gospel of John

8 November, 2009 (04:09) | Creation, Easter, Eschatology (Last Things), Genesis, John (Gospel and Epistles), Soteriology (Salvation) | 2 comments

When Jesus rose from the dead, splendor returned to the world. From the depths of death’s dark gloom, Jesus emerged triumphant and the light of new life shone out permeating the entire earth. God’s redemptive purpose to not abandon the earth to its decay, death and misery, but to restore, renew and indeed re-create it [...]

The Person and History of the Holy Spirit Part 2: Trinitarian Ecstasy (cont.)

19 August, 2007 (03:58) | John (Gospel and Epistles), Pneumatology (Spirit), Theology, Trinity | No comments

Previously, we discussed how the Scripture describes the very nature of the Spirit as fellowship or relationship. Not only does fellowship constitute the essential nature of the Holy Spirit, but Scripture seems to indicate that the Holy Spirit himself is indeed love itself. This concept finds its seed and foundation in the fourth chapter of [...]

Jesus the Messiah has Come in the Flesh

26 April, 2007 (14:57) | Anthropology (Humanity), Bible, Incarnation, John (Gospel and Epistles) | No comments

 
“Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.  2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus the Messiah has come in the flesh is from God;  3 and every [...]