Nijay K. Gupta serves as assistant professor of New Testament at George Fox Evangelical Seminary. In addition to Prepare, Succeed, Advance (Pickwick 2011), he has written two other books, Colossians and Worship That Makes Sense to Paul, as well as numerous articles for journals such as The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Journal for the Study of the New Testament, Horizons in Biblical Theology, Neotestamentica,and Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha. He is currently writing the 1-2 Thessalonians volume for Cascade's New Covenant Commentary Series.