Matt O'Reilly, PhD

…we see that orthodoxy and evangelism are the inseparable foci of a healthy church. Both must be kept in dynamic balance. Evangelism...

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

Jerry Walls is taking a turn in Rachel Held Evan’s “Ask a…” series, and he is answering question on hell, free will, and possibility of...

Ever have the experience of reading a book only to have the author turn a phrase so well that it unexpectedly sheds new light on some...

The starting point must be the comparison that Paul draws between God’s attitude toward unbelieving Israel and his audience in Rome. My...

When it comes to the so-called doctrine of eternal security (or the perseverance of the saints), the crucial passage for me is Romans...

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

About seven years ago, when I began studing the Bible and Church history with significanly increased seriousness, I discovered not only...

“…they will drink the wine of God’s wrath, poured unmixed into the cup of his anger, and they will be tormented with fire and sulfur in...

We have seen that, when read in light of Jewish apocalyptic literature, the disappearance of the sea in Rev 21:1 paints a symbolic...

It’s one thing for this to be the language of professional academic guilds, but I hope this language doesn’t work it’s way into the...

Let me begin by saying that the following reflections arise out of my evangelical and Wesleyan commitments. I say that up front because...

I’ve been interacting with Mike Bird’s recent posts (1, 2) on dual baptism in which he calls paedobaptists and credobaptists to peace and...

New Testament scholar Mike Bird has written two thought-provoking posts with precisely this aim of finding a middle way (part 1, part 2)....

Consider, for Paul that justification is the present faith-anticipation of the eschatological verdict. Sanctification is the Spirit-life...

I was pleasantly surprised to see Bishop Will Willimon’s recent  blog post on the importance of “Making Membership Mean Something.”  I...

In a recent post, I said that N.T. Wright’s presentation at ETS surprised me with regard to two areas: his clarification regarding final...

I’m a bit behind most in the blogosphere who have already posted reflections on the recent annual gatherings of the Evangelical...

In recent debates over the Reformation doctrine of Justification, the phrase “the righteousness of Christ” has come under heavy...

I’ve been preaching through the Gospel of Mark for nearly seven months now, and I am repeatedly considering questions regarding the...