March 2026
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This post intends to be the fifth/final installment in a series: What are “apostles”? What are “church-founding apostles”? Why we still need church-founding apostles. How to get more apostles. Why begging is essential in order to get more apostles. Thus far we have seen that one major category of “sent ones” in the New Testament…
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This post intends to be the fourth in a series: What are “apostles”? What are “church-founding apostles”? Why we still need church-founding apostles. How to get more apostles. Why begging is essential in order to get more apostles. Let’s say you buy into the thesis presented thus far that we still (desperately) need church-founding apostles.…
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This post intends to be the third in a series: What are “apostles”? What are “church-founding apostles”? Why we still need church-founding apostles. How to get more apostles. Why begging is essential in order to get more apostles. Having given the explanation of what a “church-founding apostle” is, I would set forth two reasons, two…
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This post intends to be the second in a series: What are “apostles”? What are “church-founding apostles”? Why we still need church-founding apostles. How to get more apostles. Why begging is essential in order to get more apostles. We previously saw that there are about as many senses of the Greek word “apostle” as there…
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This post intends to be the first in a series: What are “apostles”? What are “church-founding apostles”? Why we still need church-founding apostles. How to get more apostles. Why begging is essential in order to get more apostles. In Koine Greek an “apostle” is a “sent one,” the same idea as expressed in the Latin…
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A predominant expectation for the coming Messiah in first century Judea was that of a military leader who would raise up an army, overthrow the regional Roman occupiers, and rule Israel from Jerusalem in a rebirthed continuation of the Davidic dynasty. The gospels and early Acts indicate that Jesus’ own disciples followed him with the…
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Ὅτι ὑμῖν δέδοται γνῶναι τὰ μυστήρια τῆς βασιλείας τῶν οὐρανῶν, ἐκείνοις δὲ οὐ δέδοται. To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given. Mt 13:11 God shouts some things so that all are without excuse, but whispers other things that only…
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Any student of the Holy Bible knows that Israel is at the center of God’s relationship with the nations of this world, His-Story of global affairs. Being “firstborn” carries both privilege and responsibility. So let’s start there: Israel is stupid and evil because overall, corporately, as a nation it has rejected its own King. That’s…
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It is not hard to find support for the idea that the Bible intersects politics. What is difficult, however, is to find any consensus on what the political implications of the Bible properly are. A wide spectrum of possibilities offer themselves regarding the potential relationship between religion and government: Liberation theology argues that the gospel…
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In sixish days I return to Asia, with high chances that it is a permanent move this time. Well-meaning family and friends, who are all very kind and supportive folks that I love(!), may be inclined to say, “I’m excited for this next stage of your journey.” Well, thank you! And certainly you are free…
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The Kingdom of God is the central storyline of the Bible. Key developments of the story are found in accounts of the Garden (1:28), Abraham (12:1-3), Moses (Ex 19:6), David (2 Sam 7:12ff, Ps 2), and Daniel (chps. 2 & 7), but the theme permeates the entire Hebrew Bible. The Kingdom of God is the…
