For Christians, going to be with Jesus the Messiah after you die isn’t the end of the story. If salvation is about more than simply going to heaven after death, what is our hope about? God is, of course, sovereign over death, but might the end goal in fact be something more glorious than we’ve commonly imagined? In this video, Prof. N.T. Wright explores the New Testament writers’ surprising silence on what happens between bodily death and bodily resurrection in the New Creation.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.lightsource.com/donate/1749/29

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Blood plays a paradoxical role in human societies, reminding us of both life and death. When it comes to the biblical narrative, blood is no different. It’s all too easy to see the blood around which the sacrificial systems operate as a substitute for due punishment. In this video, Prof. N.T. Wright argues that, rather, this blood, and the blood of Jesus, work within its life-giving connotations.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.lightsource.com/donate/1749/29

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The collection of ancient texts that Christians have come to know as their sacred text, the Bible, is vast, varied, and mysterious. In this episode, Prof. N.T. Wright suggests that the Bible, like much great literature, offers an alternative world to the one we’ve got now. Further, the Bible uniquely offers directions and avenues into that alternative world, if we have eyes to see and ears to hear.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.lightsource.com/donate/1749/29

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Most translations of 2 Corinthians 5:21 reference "the righteousness of God." What is this mysterious quality? In this passage, Paul references Isaiah and the covenant promises of God to explain what it means to be an Apostle. The vocation of Apostleship, says Paul, is about embodying God’s faithfulness to the covenant, just as Jesus did in his willingness to go to the cross on our behalf.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.lightsource.com/donate/1749/29

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Thinking Through Salvation puts the admittedly giant concept of salvation within its larger biblical framework. While salvation includes questions about what happens after death, “going to heaven” is not the primary focus of the story told throughout the Bible.In this video, Prof. N.T. Wright examines three common definitions of salvation to see how well they fit the biblical picture and how the portrait of Jesus in the Gospels fits into each of these, ultimately refocusing our attention on the Kingdom of God.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.lightsource.com/donate/1749/29

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Does the here and now matter? Why bother serving God? The Apostle Paul asked this same question. He provides his answer in 1 Corinthians 15:58. Paul assures us that what we do in the present is not worthless or wasted because it is part of a much greater design for God’s future.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.lightsource.com/donate/1749/29

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For all that the Bible is full of examples of baptism (in various forms), the topic has been controversial and confusing for Christians throughout the years. In this video, Prof. N.T. Wright explains baptism as a shorthand way of talking about the key themes of Christian life. A world of meaning sits behind the act of baptism, all of which we must think through wisely.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.lightsource.com/donate/1749/29

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In this episode, Prof. N.T. Wright explores an encounter between Joshua and a mysterious figure. When asked if he is "for or against us," the mysterious figure answers in a way that slices right across Joshua's question, upending all his assumptions. This passage offers a stark warning to remain humble in polarized times, recognizing all throughout that God's purposes are greater than our imaginations.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.lightsource.com/donate/1749/29

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Humans appear to have a tendency towards the building of societies, oftentimes in the form of cities. In this episode, Prof. N.T. Wright explores how Babel/Babylon, the biblical embodiment of the world’s empires, demonstrates how this natural tendency can all too easily turn into attempts to replace God’s ways with our own.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.lightsource.com/donate/1749/29

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What is God’s purpose in creating a world other from himself? Prof. N.T. Wright suggests that, at least in part, it is so that God can totally fill that creation with God’s own presence. This video reflects on Paul’s retrieval of the Old Testament theme of the fullness of God. Just as numerous passages point toward God’s intention to fill the temple with God’s presence, love, knowledge, and glory as a sign of the future, so too are we being filled as new temple people, a pointer to that future reality, which is even now breaking into the present.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.lightsource.com/donate/1749/29

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