Today I want to begin exploring 1 Corinthians 15, the passage of scripture that most overtly discusses the future bodily resurrection of the dead. There are 58 verses in this chapter and the focus of the entire chapter is resurrection. I don’t plan to quote the entire chapter within the blog. So, I’m ...

Romans 8 is probably my favorite chapter in the Bible. It begins with “no condemnation”, moves on to sonship and inheritance for those led by the Spirit rather than the flesh, and ends with a view of God’s sovereign love and grace that absolutely blows my mind with its beauty. Buried right in the ...

N.T. “Tom” Wright is one of my favorite authors. This is a great video where he tackles a common conspiracy theory that attempts to undermine the historicity of the gospels. ...

“For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then he appeared to more than five ...

1 Corinthians 15:35-36 35 But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?” 36 You foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. 37 And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain. 38 But God ...

In follow up to my previous post I want to spend some time on some of what seem to me to be the main ideas in 1 Cor 15. In this chapter Paul deals quite thoroughly with the concept of resurrection and yet many believers are quite unfamiliar with its content. I begin with Paul’s initial affirmation of faith, his ...

Isaiah 26:16-19 16 O Lord, in distress they sought you; they poured out a whispered prayer when your discipline was upon them. 17 Like a pregnant woman who writhes and cries out in her pangs when she is near to giving birth, so were we because of you, O Lord; 18 we were pregnant, we writhed, but we have given birth to ...

For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now. And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body. For in hope we have been ...