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Wingless Bones, Not Boneless Wings

July 6, 2018July 6, 2018 B.J. MaxwellBiblical Meditations, Christian Life, Mark, Theology

“For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven” (Mk 12.25). The Sadducees were the 1st-century version of the 21st-century liberals. They denied all things supernatural, especially any notion of bodily resurrection from the dead (cf. Mt 3.7; 16.1, 11-12; 22.23, 34; Lk 20.27; Acts 4.1-2; 5.17; 23.6-8). Sola Torah (Torah alone) was their creed. They didn’t believe anything […]

Angels & Interns

March 7, 2015March 7, 2015 B.J. MaxwellActs, Biblical Meditations, Christian Life, Ephesians

…and he will speak words to you by which you will be saved, you and all your household (Acts 11.14). While in Joppa (the same port city Jonah put on the map), Peter raised Tabitha-Dorcas from the dead like he’d seen Jesus do for Talitha (Acts 9.36-43; cf. 5.40-41). Expectedly, Joppa became fertile ground for the gospel so Peter bunked at Simon the Tanner’s house while the iron was hot. […]