Tag: Kingdom of God
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Sign Up To Guest Star in Season 2; Beginning February 5, 2026
I certainly have those friends I love to have theological conversations with. If you’d like to guest-star on the show, click the button below. My topics for the show are limited to issues in ministry, exposition, and theology. If you have a topic on your heart that falls in or overlaps those categories, I would…
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God’s Law, Just Society, and Our Dishonest Gain: Reflecting on the Plea of Psalm 119
In psalm 119 so far, the psalmist As the psalmist reflects on the Law of God, he continues, Incline my heart to Your testimonies And not to dishonest gain (Psalm 119:36). Since the psalmist sees the Law of God as opposite dishonest gain, we get to ask another question of God’s Law–Does God’s Law actually…
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Jesus as Prophet and The Personal Salvation Debate Among Jews in the First Century
In these notes, I first show the point of John 3:1-2 by offering a biblical apologetic for Jesus as having the authority of a prophet to reveal new revelation. Then, I explore the theological environment of First Century Judea in order to provide historical context for Jesus’s conversation with Nicodemus. It is no surprise that…
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Daily Devotional: Exodus 19:1-8
God now covenants with the nation of Israel, after saving them out of Egypt and bringing the people to Himself (Exodus 19:4). Like we saw with Abraham, the call to obedience follows the gift of salvation. In Abraham’s case, salvation was the gift of righteousness—credited to him on the basis of his faith. In Israel’s…
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God is Building Something
In Ephesians 1, Paul writes about the unconditional love of God in Christ. He makes immediate application to himself, saying that he thanks God for the saints because God has unconditionally chosen and adopted them. Because God loves and accepts His people unconditionally, we also love and accept one another unconditionally. The truth is simple,…
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The Eucharist According to Matthew
It is the eve of Christ’s betrayal into the hands of Israel’s chief priests and elders. From the beginning of His public preaching ministry, Jesus has been teaching that the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. At the end of Matthew’s Gospel, Jesus declares that the kingdom is here. Since Matthew is the most Jewish…
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Justice as an Intent in God’s Judgment
God visited Abraham to reaffirm His promise on His way to judge Sodom. The story of Sodom is difficult for many people in our current society. It is not difficult to understand but difficult to accept for what it is. Many people want to twist the words so that they do not have to feel…
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Against Human Religion
Jesus is in a conversation with the chief priests and elders who challenged his authority. He tells his second parable against them. Matthew 21:33-46 “Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard and put a wall around it and dug a wine press in it, and built a tower, and rented…
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Biblical Evidence of Satan’s Imprisonment
In his third interlude, John has described redemptive history through apocalyptic imagery. God chose Israel, the woman, who gave birth to the messiah, the child. Satan, the dragon, tried to devour the child like he devoured other nations. He chased the child as the child ascended to the Father but could not retain his foothold…
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The Tribulation, Kingdom, and Perseverance in Revelation
Last week, we saw that Christ’s dominion underlies the whole book of Revelation. In this waltz, Christ the Lord is dancing with His church. The whole book shows us how God is dancing with His church through redemptive history and into the coming age. What is Christ’s basic relationship with His church? Revelation 1:9-20 I,…