I have heard there is a new Left Behind movie out in theaters. It has been several decades since Tim LaHaye's series fictionalizing the return of Christ captured the evangelical imagination. This latest movie focusing on the antichrist seems to be following the pattern of trying to dramatize teachings about the end times for the … Continue reading Who Will Be Left Behind?
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Why You Don’t Have to Worry About the Mark of the Beast
2020 has been a crazy year. In times like these, many Christians look to end times prophecy voices to try to make sense of it. This is illustrated in the shortage of coins in America in July, which has predictably triggered a new wave of speculation that this may be the signs of a new … Continue reading Why You Don’t Have to Worry About the Mark of the Beast
How Eschatology Shaped AG Social Ethics
This week I attended the annual meeting for the Society for Pentecostal Studies. It was a wonderful meeting. The theme this year was "Pentecostals and the Poor". This theme appealed to me because one of the questions my thesis attempts to answer is how Assemblies of God eschatology translated to how they engaged in social … Continue reading How Eschatology Shaped AG Social Ethics