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Paul and Paul’s letters
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Interethnic Marriages in Acts 7:29 and 16:1-3
The Old Testament offers many more examples of interethnic marriage than the New Testament does. Since many major…
Dionysius or Stephanas: Did Paul Reach Athenians?
Paul preached in Athens (1 Thess 3:1) and Luke explicitly claims that Paul won some converts of status…
Paul and Sedition: Defending Paul’s Legacy
Many scholars agree that at least one function of Acts is apologetic, a purpose that many extend to…
Contextualization and Scripture: Understanding the Nature of Cross-Cultural Communication
I asked my dear friend, neighbor, and missiology colleague at my former seminary, Samuel Escobar, where biblical studies…
Faith in Jesus is Not About Social Superiority
Any Christian who looks down on members of another faith or looks down on anyone because of sins…
A Closer Look: Antioch
Probably the empire’s third largest city, Antioch held a strategic position as the “mother city” and most powerful…
A Closer Look: Damascus
Both Acts and Paul (Gal. 1:17, which claims that he “returned” there) state that Paul was in Damascus…
The Gentiles in Galatia and Their Susceptibility to False Teachings
At least the strong majority of Paul’s audience was gentile; they were not yet circumcised (Gal. 5:2; 6:12)…
Portraits of Paul
There are various descriptions of the apostle Paul throughout history. Which ones are accurate? Original Video: https://youtu.be/hPQZOexILag
“In Christ”: united with Christ, immersed in Christ
I knew biblical passages about our solidarity with Christ—we are “in Christ,” we are the body of Christ,…
Discussing the New Perspective
This video link is a discussion among three of us professors at Asbury regarding the New Perspective(s): Joe…
The Spirit as a foretaste of our future inheritance (one and a half minutes)
The Spirit as the guarantee/downpayment of our future inheritance
Paul in Acts: interview on the PaulCast (an hour and a half audio)
https://theologycurator.com/craig-keener-on-acts-paul-and-miracles-s1-e9-ep-67-paulcast/
Are There Apostles Today? (part 2)
Are there apostles today? As noted in part 1, that depends on what you mean by an apostle.…
Paul, Apostle of Christ—the movie
Here are my first impressions of Paul: Apostle of Christ, which came to our area today. First of…