Matt O'Reilly, PhD

Ever tempted to think we have little to learn from people who lived long ago? If so, C.S. Lewis would warn you against what he called...

From The Coming of God: Christian Eschatology: The immortality of the soul is an opinion – the resurrection of the dead is a hope. The...

If you are like me, and take great joy in curating your personal library, then this excerpt from Seneca’s Epistle 2 may be a little...

No gnostic anthropology around here. A thoughtful reminder from Robert Gundry that full humanness requires embodiment: The separation of...

Today is Easter Sunday. Where better to turn than On the Incarnation by St. Athanasius? This is one of those books that I keep coming...

I came across this quote this morning while reading Scot McKnight’s book Praying with the Church: Following Jesus Daily, Hourly, Today:...

There are many who are ready to tell us confidently what would and would not be worthy of God; but in fact the only way to discover what...

How is Christ present in the sacrament of Holy Communion? Here’s Peter Kreeft in his book Catholic Christianity (paper, Kindle), which is...

This is John Wesley. And this vision of Christianity is why I am, and will remain, a Methodist. “Love is the fulfilling of the law, the...

“There is a host of different ways in which contemporary believers can be tempted to feel that the basic gospel message is inadequate and...

Revelation is not about the antichrist, but about the living Christ. It is not about a rapture out of this world but about faithful...

“Paul sees the community of faith being caught up into the story of God’s remaking the world through Jesus Christ. Thus, to make ethical...

“There is no problem, in the modulation of visionary images, with Jesus being the lamp that the lampstands hold and, at the same time,...

“Moreover, our salvation depends on his (Christ’s) continuing union with us. If the Son of God came to us where we are, but then left us,...

“Thus, taking a body like our own, because all our bodies were liable to the corruption of death, He surrendered His body to death in...

At the end of all discussion, Paul’s message as God’s ambassador on Christ’s behalf is stark. Christ’s death offers an effective response...

Belongs to that group of Christians who have seen it as part of their calling to articulate their faith in writing and to instruct others...

Here’s a gem from John Wesley on the trustworthiness (dare I say, inerrancy) of scripture: Two observations are noteworthy. First, Wesley...

I was happy to receive Sinclair Ferguson’s In Christ Alone: Living the Gospel Centered Life for Christmas.  Ferguson is a strong writer...

Peter T. O’Brien on Philippians 1:12-26 from The Epistle to the Philippians (NIGTC; Eerdmans, 1991): For Paul the goal of the gospel’s...