The game of baseball, as it was meant to be played, is an analogy of the Christian life in more ways than I will even mention in this post. So I would love to see some more ideas and discussion in the comments. My goal will be to speak about how we think about and […]
Eschatology
He Must Increase; John 3:22-30
22 After this Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside, and he remained there with them and was baptizing. 23 John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming and being baptized 24 (for John had not yet been put in prison). 25 Now a discussion arose between some of John’s disciples […]
The Place of Sports in Postmillennialism: a Peace Time Battlefield
2 outs, bottom of the 9th, game 7 of the World Series. You could hear the St. Louis crowd, decked out in their Cardinal red, all the way in Kansas City. Busch stadium seemed as if it was about to burst at the seems as the whole year lead up to this moment. This was […]
Of the Increase
In my previous post I discussed the key text of 1 Corinthians 15 that pushed me over the edge into embracing Postmillennialism. Once I understood that text, and once I understood partial Preterism, the beauty and the extent of the growth of the Kingdom of God began to make sense and be plain to me. Throughout the […]
The Last Enemy to be Defeated
Several weeks ago I gave some Brief Thoughts On Postmillennialism. In today’s post we will consider a text that pushed me over the edge into full embrace of Postmillennialism. The text is 1 Corinthians 15:24-26, which reads like this, “Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every […]