Part 4: John’s Gospel Throughout this series of blogs, we’ve been investigating Jesus’ teaching about the future in the Gospels. In Part 1 and Part 2, we focused our attention on Jesus’ primary teaching about the future in the Olivet Discourse. In Part 3, we explored his other teachings about the future throughout the Synoptic… Read More
Jesus and the Future: Other Teachings of Jesus in the Gospels
Part 3: Other Teachings of Jesus in the Gospels In this series of blogs, we are investigating Jesus’ teaching on the future. In Part 1 and Part 2, we looked at Jesus’ most important prophecy about the future in the Olivet Discourse. In this blog, we’ll begin to investigate other teachings of Jesus in the… Read More
Jesus and the Future: A Closer Look at the Olivet Discourse
Part 2: A Closer Look at the Olivet Discourse In this series of blogs, we are investigating Jesus’ teaching on the future. One of Jesus’ key prophecies is contained in a section of the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew 24–25, Mark 13, and Luke 21) known as the Olivet Discourse. In the previous blog, we looked at… Read More
Jesus and the Future: An Introduction to the Olivet Discourse
Part 1: An Introduction to the Olivet Discourse Jesus and the Future: Understanding What He Taught About the End Times was written as a guide to walk you through Jesus’ teaching about the future in all four Gospels. The Gospels tell us that Jesus predicted the future. To some extent this was expected since he… Read More
In Defense of the Bible: What Does Scripture Teach regarding Itself?
The Self-Attestation of Scripture In my previous post, I outlined 5 postures we can take toward the Bible and the Christian faith (skeptical, suspicious, critical, discerning, naïve). In this context, we should also consider Scripture’s self-attestation. Not only does the OT reveal a high view toward Scripture (Psalm 19; 119), Jesus had a high view… Read More