What Edward Fudge Can’t Believe about The Rich Man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31)

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Now that our revised The Grace New Testament Commentary is out, I can go back to finishing up two or three book projects, such as on the “atonement” and “hell.”  My book on hell will, so far (I can still be convinced of a different view), defend eternal conscious torment (ECT)—though not the ECT of Augustine, Dante, and the Roman Catholic
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“Castaway” and “Disqualified” Are Bad Translations (1 Corinthians 9:27)

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“But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.” (NKJV)  The King James Version translates the end of 1 Cor 9:27 in this way: “lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway” (emphasis added). The word castaway in
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Six Raptures?

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Do you believe in the Rapture? I do. But not everyone does. The very idea of the Rapture is regularly denounced as nonsense by non-Dispensational Christian theologians (see here).  But is the idea of the rapture Biblical?  I was perusing this conservative Mennonite commentary/study guide on Revelation. I haven’t read through it yet, but I liked a chart on p. 12 that describes six
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Bye Bye Netflix

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Since having kids, my wife and I have time to watch maybe one show a night. It often takes two or three nights to finish a movie. But over the last four or five years, finding things to watch has become increasingly difficult. We’ve had to tune out more and more shows because of their
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Introduction to Mark’s Gospel

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Some think Mark was the first Gospel written and that Matthew and Luke used Mark to write their Gospels. I don’t agree. I think the evidence shows that all four Gospels were written independently, without each other having seen the works of the other writers.   How do we explain, then, all the common wording in Matthew,
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Hospitality to the Lonely

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It’s been 17 years since Robert Putnam’s best-selling book Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community sounded the alarm about societal changes driving new levels of isolation and alienation; by now, most of us know that loneliness isn’t a problem to be laughed off. Researchers warn that we are in the midst of a loneliness
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Alexander Strauch on the Potential Impact of Christian Hospitality

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What does a practical “Christian spirituality” look like? That’s what I’m seeking to understand as I seek to follow the Lord more closely and to raise my kids to do the same.  The problem those of us in the Free Grace movement typically realize is that so much of today’s teaching about “spirituality” assumes a salvation-by-works gospel, which inevitably
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Saved Yet Through Fire, Part 2 (1 Corinthians 3:5-17)

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Here is a powerful passage about the church, eternal rewards, and temporal judgment. There is much in this passage for every believer.  Rewards are in view. After all, Paul says “he will receive a reward [misthos, wages].” However, there are some well-intentioned misunderstandings which can be quickly eliminated.   Misconception #1: This Means There Will Be Believers  With Zero Good Works  I
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