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Adventures In Grace

May 30, 2014

On this episode, we want to do another deep-dive into the issue of “resurrection.”  I recently uncovered a rare-TV episode by N.T. Wright where he talks at length about resurrection. I play an edited version of this show in the podcast.  You can also watch the entire show in the links below. Click to Listen...


May 23, 2014

The early Christians did not believe in progress. They did not think the world was getting better and better under its own steam—or even under the steady influence of God. They knew God had to do something fresh to put it to rights. But neither did they believe that the world was getting worse and worse […]

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May 17, 2014

When we look at the contemporary world and church, we discover great confusion about future hope but that when we look at the early Christians, we find not just faith but a very precise and specific faith, both about Jesus and his resurrection and about the future life that God had promised to all his […]

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May 9, 2014

If the disciples simply saw, or thought they saw, someone they took to be Jesus, that would not by itself have generated the stories we have. Everyone in the ancient world took it for granted that people sometimes had strange experiences involving encounters with the dead, particularly the recently dead. They knew at...


May 3, 2014

The ancient world—with the exception of the Jews—was adamant that dead people did not rise again; and the Jews did not believe that anyone had done so or that anyone would do so all by themselves in advance of the general resurrection. But the early church had a much different message. But even when we’ve...