Solomon's Portico - Bible Study & Devotional

Explore Matthew's narrative of clashing kingdoms as John the Baptist preaches about the kingdom of heaven drawing near in the ministry of Jesus.

Explore with us how Matthew maps the narratives around Jesus' birth onto those narratives in Israel's antiquity to demonstrate Jesus as restorer of fallen creation and fulfiller of God's covenantal promises.

Explore with us Matthew's Christmas and how Jesus Christ is Immanuel in an era of eagerly awaiting the Messiah.

Explore with us how the Abrahamic and Davidic promises are carried out through Jesus' genealogy and culminate in his messianic fulfillment of them.

Kick off a study in Matthew by exploring foundations of the Great Commission rooted in God's commission of Israel in Deuteronomy 4:6-9.

Jonah wrestles with his theology of justice which puts God's condemnation in tension with His restoration. Explore in this Session the gospel narratives that reflect God's desire to save people and His autonomy in accomplishing His desire.

This episode shows God's autonomy is just. We will explore God's object lesson with a plant, a worm, and a scorching east wind for Jonah to develop empathy that leads to a Godlike pity for others.

This episode shows the purposed end (teleology) of God's autonomy is repentance that leads to relentance...relenting. We will explore how God reveals Himself to Nineveh through a message of condemn that leads to their repenting and His relenting.

This episode shows God's autonomy is salvific. We will explore Jonah's prayer in the great fish and his response to God's autonomy.

This episode explores "The Sign of Jonah" from the context of God's autonomy with Jonah in the great fish.

This episode shows God's autonomy is boundless. We will explore Jonah's encounter with God's Autonomy in the billowing waves of the sea.

This episode shows God's autonomy is cooperative. God wants us to participate in His mission and gives us autonomy to respond. We will explore Jonah's decision to flee from God's presence.

This episode explores God as an unwavering architect of the soul with autonomy; God can decide how He wants to reveal Himself to others and is able to carry out that decision by His own volition. God wants to reveal Himself to Nineveh and Jonah and begins the process with instruction for Jonah to arise and go to Nineveh.