Matt O'Reilly, PhD

The contributions fall into four major sections. Part 1 is on the ancient context of the New Testament and attends to the relationship...

Plenty of people are expecting the rapture, an event in which Christians are all taken up from the earth into heaven. The problem is that...

As a pastor, I can’t help but think how many Christians might – at one time or another – diagnose their devotional (un)health...

I’m excited to share with readers that I’ve recently begun contributing to the So What? Podcast, which is produced by People of Mars Hill...

Our celebrations of Christ’s resurrection at Easter tend to be narrowly focused. The focus, all too often, drills down onto the...

Here’s the latest installment of Seedbed’s Seven Minute Seminary series in which I discuss several questions related to life after death,...

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After attending part of the review panel for Richard Hays’ new short book, Reading Backwards: Figural Christology and the Fourfold Gospel...

I’m grateful to the team at Seedbed for the opportunity to contribute to the Seven Minute Seminary series of short videos. Here’s one on...

Today is Epiphany, the day on which the Church celebrates the arrival of the Magi to honor and give gifts to the Christ child. The Magi...

The doctrine of the virgin birth (or, more properly, the virginal conception) has had a little extra attention around the web in recent...

“For God so loved the world” may be the most well-known and oft memorized verse of scripture ever. And rightly so. It summarizes the...

You don’t have to read many books on preaching to find the common notion that Jesus’ parables were basically like sermon illustrations....

Here’s an extended quote from Marcus Borg that does a great  (and somewhat discomforting) job applying Jesus’ command for enemy love by...

I finally got around to downloading and listening to the Chamberlain Holiness Lectures delivered last fall by Rev. Dr. Calvin T. Samuel...

When I began preparing my sermon for last Sunday on the topic of Christmas and the promise of peace, I didn’t know I would deliver it...

I’m preaching a series of four sermons on Luke 1-2 this Advent that focus on four promises that are kept in the events surrounding the...

Everything Jesus says is his answer to the question raised by the disciples in 24:3. And their question is primarily looking for a bit of...

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