In "A Trustworthy Gospel," I confront Gospel integrity challenges that arise when it is accepted that the earliest Gospels were not published until several decades after the resurrection. In "A Gospel for Cornelius," I counter Gospel integrity challenges that arise due to content and sequential discrepancies between the Gospels of…
For those of us who contend that Luke’s Gospel leveraged Matthew and Mark, it is important to carefully work through Luke’s prologue, where Luke speaks of the accounts of Jesus that were available prior to his own account. Within the text of Luke 1:2 there are interpretive options that potentially…
My thanks to those who coordinated and hosted the ISCA conference in Wichita last weekend. Celebration Baptist Church had a nice facility for the gathering, and we enjoyed meeting several of their people. It was also nice to connect and catch up with those from ISCA and attend several paper…
A Gospel for Cornelius: Discovering Mark's Affinity with Matthew now available.
Daniel Iglesias Grèzes has published an assessment of the Synoptic problem which affirms Matthean priority and aligns with the Augustinian hypothesis.
A favorable Amazon review of A Trustworthy Gospel by Cory Marsh: "This book doesn’t merely argue for Matthean priority, but for a very early publication of Matthew—preceding all of Paul’s letters (several years [not decades] after Jesus’s ascension). The argument is especially reasonable when one considers that all of Paul’s…
If we work under the premise that the early church was not hesitant in publishing Gospels as the need arose, then what should we speculate concerning Luke, which appears to have been written for a more sophisticated Greco-Roman audience than either Matthew or Mark? In this article, we survey a…
A new book, A Gospel for Cornelius: Discovering Mark's Affinity with Matthew to be published in September.
Here is the abstract for the paper that I’ll be presenting at the Annual ISCA Conference in Wichita on 11–12 September 2026 (https://isca-apologetics.org/): Inerrancy, Patterns of Behavior, and the Implications on Early Gospel Publication The New Testament portrays the earliest Christians as being reliant on Scripture—as recognizing that God spoke…
If you are close to Wichita in mid-September, I’ll be presenting a paper at the annual conference of the International Society of Christian Apologetics: “Inerrancy, Patterns of Behavior, and the Implications on Early Gospel Publication.” This adds another argument for an early Matthew, beyond those advanced in my first book:…