Dec 30, 2024 · The Feast of the Epiphany in the church’s liturgical calendar is based on the events of Matt 2.1–12, the visit of the ‘wise men’ from the East to the infant Jesus.There are plenty of things about the story which might make us instinctively treat it as just another part of the constellation of Christmas traditions, which does not have …

Jan 2, 2025 · Paul says – “The signs of a true apostle were performed among you with all perseverance, by signs and wonders and miracles.” The Greek does seem to be saying the performance of signs, wonders and miracles is the distinguishing evidence for being an apostle as opposed to an ‘ordinary’ Christian (the NIV contains the word ‘including’ as if …

‘The voice of Jesus through the voice of Mahhew and its pastoral implica>ons’ in Well done, Good and Faithful Servant (festschrio for Dr Stephen Wright) ed Seidel Abel Boanerges and John Wood (2024) ‘The Genre of the Book of Revela>on’ in The Apocalypse of John Amongst its Cri4cs (ed Alexander Stewart; Lexham Press: Bellingham WA, 2023)

Nov 14, 2024 · The theme for the Tyndale Fellowship New Testament Study Group in 2025 is Eschatology in the New Testament, and we are meeting from Monday 30th June to Wednesday 2nd July 2025 at the excellent conference facility of The Hayes Conference Centre, Derbyshire, UK. It is easily accessible by train from London, and off the M1 by car. Eschatology is a central theological theme in the New Testament.

Nov 9, 2024 · According to Makin’s research, in the summer of 1975 both Justin Welby and John Smyth attended the Summer Iwerne Camp.They did so again the following summer, and the summer after that. The next year, 1978, Justin Welby is lodging with Mark Ruston and Makin details that he was overheard having a “grave” conversation with Ruston, about John Smyth, whilst lodging with him.

Jan 27, 2025 · For the first decade of the 2000s I was a vicar in suburban southwest London. Part of my inheritance from the previous regime was a church with close links to a cult.

Nov 6, 2024 · I write a quarterly column for Preach magazine, in which I explore a significant word or phrase in the Bible, or a theme or section of Scripture, and the ideas that it expresses.At the end of this piece I list the previous articles I have written for them. Here I explore what Scripture says about the mighty God of the universe working through the smallest of things.

Oct 29, 2020 · Those who are ‘poor in spirit’ are, in the OT narrative, those who are God’s faithful people, humbly aware of their dependence on God in the face of challenges of every kind.One version (I forget which!) translates this as ‘those who know their need of God’. In the OT, this is sometimes connected with material poverty or the threat of a …

Nov 26, 2024 · The Sunday lectionary reading for the Second Sunday before Advent in Year B is Mark 13.1–8. This feels a little odd, in that we last visited Mark 13 all the way back last Advent, when this lectionary year was just beginning, and the reading is quite truncated and only really makes sense when the chapter …

Jan 14, 2025 · The lectionary New Testament readings for the coming week, Epiphany 2 in Year C, are 1 Corinthians 12.1-11 and John 2.1-11. For written commentary on John 2 (the wedding at Cana), see here, and for the video discussion of John 2 see here. (The sound quality leaves something to be desired—but the quality of the comment is as good as ever!)