Author: Ed Gravely

This is the fourth installment in a five-part blog series on how to think carefully and faithfully about what the Bible teaches about the end of the world. Each of the subsequent parts of this series will be released monthly through the end of the year. To read part 3 of this series, click HERE.… Continue reading Talking about the End of the World, Part 4: Speaking Clearly about the Judgment of God

This is the third installment in a five-part blog series on how to think carefully and faithfully about what the Bible teaches about the end of the world. Each of the subsequent parts of this series will be released monthly through the end of the year. To read part 2 of this series, click HERE.… Continue reading Talking about the End of the World, Part 3 “Anyone who doesn’t read Revelation the way I do must not really believe the Bible.”

This is the second installment in a five-part blog series on how to think carefully and faithfully about what the Bible teaches about the end of the world. Each of the subsequent parts of this series will be released monthly through the end of the year. To read part 1 of this series, click HERE.… Continue reading Talking about the End of the World, Part 2 “I’ve been watching the news; the end times are near!”

This is the first installment in a five-part blog series on how to think carefully and faithfully about what the Bible teaches about the end of the world. Each of the subsequent parts of this series will be released monthly through the end of the year. For those of us who attend Evangelical churches, especially… Continue reading Talking about the End of the World, Part 1 “I don’t know when Jesus is coming back, but I know it will be soon!”

Last month [here] we took a brief look at the teaching of Jesus at the end of Luke. Jesus taught that the good news of salvation for the whole world is a Jewish story, a story from Moses and the Prophets and the Writings, but Jesus ended this teaching by calling all “Jesus followers” to… Continue reading The Mission of God in the Gospel of Luke: Part 7 – Conclusion

In my previous post [here] we examined the famous condemnations of Jesus. The Gospel of Luke was written to Theophilus and to us to ensure us all that God loves the whole world, but Jesus found in the religious leaders a tremendous obstacle to the world hearing that good news. Jesus condemned them for their self-centered… Continue reading The Mission of God in the Gospel of Luke: Part 6 – The Final Teaching of Jesus

Last month [link here] we took a brief look at the so-called “gentile narratives” in Luke. These are the stories about Jesus and Jesus’ teaching that highlight gentiles, outcasts, women, and anyone who was marginalized in society in Jesus’ day. Luke focuses on these particular people in his “Travelogue” section (Luke 9-19). His purpose in telling… Continue reading The Mission of God in the Gospel of Luke: Part 5 – The Condemnations

Last month [here] we discussed how Luke focuses on the mission of God in Jesus’ parables. The parables in Luke’s “travelogue” in particular (Luke 9-19) show God’s love for all people, even the people that Jewish society had forgotten to love. The trio of parables in Luke 10 teach us that if anyone, even the… Continue reading The Mission of God in the Gospel of Luke: Part 4 – The Story of Zacchaeus