A Wonderful Day in the Lord

Key word: Complete  Written to the church at Colossae in Southern Asia, modern day Turkey, while Paul was a prisoner in Rome around 62 A.D., it is more concerned about false teaching than Philippians and Ephesians. And whereas the Galatian churches were being infiltrated by false gospels, the Colossian church was being inundated with faulty philosophies, which were distracting them from the s...

Key word: Joy The epistle to the Philippian church has a more relaxed feel than that to the sin-laced Corinthians, the gospel-diluting Galatians, and the doctrinally-heavy Ephesians. There seems to be no major doctrinal issue at Philippi, unless it was some confusion over the nature of the incarnation. And no outstanding sins, which needed correction, except for that fact that they were having a p...

Key word: Joy  The epistle to the Philippian church has a more relaxed feel than that to the sin-laced Corinthians, the gospel-diluting Galatians, and the doctrinally-heavy Ephesians. There seems to be no major doctrinal issue at Philippi, unless it was some confusion over the nature of the incarnation. And no outstanding sins, which needed correction, except for that fact that they were havi...

Key word: Riches Paul was a prisoner, because of the gospel, in Rome around 62 A.D. At that time, he wrote four inspired letters – three to churches and one to an individual. These letters are now known as the prison epistles, and Ephesians is the first. Ephesus was a very important Roman city located in modern day Turkey. The church was founded by Paul on his second missionary journey. Paul staye...

Key word: Riches Paul was a prisoner, because of the gospel, in Rome around 62 A.D. At that time, he wrote four inspired letters – three to churches and one to an individual. These letters are now known as the prison epistles, and Ephesians is the first. Ephesus was a very important Roman city located in modern day Turkey. The church was founded by Paul on his second missionary journey. Paul staye...

Key word: Riches  Paul was a prisoner, because of the gospel, in Rome around 62 A.D. At that time, he wrote four inspired letters – three to churches and one to an individual. These letters are now known as the prison epistles, and Ephesians is the first. Ephesus was a very important Roman city located in modern day Turkey. The church was founded by Paul on his second missionary journey. Paul...

Key word: Gospel  Although there is some uncertainty, Galatians most likely was one of Paul’s first epistles. It is written to a group of churches in Galatia – a region in Asia Minor, or modern Turkey. Unlike the Corinthians who seemed solid in theology if not in practice, the Galatians had some serious doctrinal errors, many of which had to do with proper understanding and the role of the Ol...

Key word: Apostle  Paul’s second inspired epistle to the Corinthians followed the first one within a year. It was necessitated because the first letter was poorly received and the church had deepened its resistance to the apostleship of Paul. While there are many great themes developed in the book, such as comfort (chapter 1), the intermediate state of a believer after death and before the ra...

Key word: Cross  Paul writes two inspired epistles to the young church at Corinth, which was in southern Greece, due west of Athens. It was comprised of many immature believers who struggled with a variety of sins, from division, to moral issues, to pride, suing one another, to marital problems, and abuse of the Lord’s supper. They were spiritual babies who had not yet broken cleanly from the...

Key word: Righteousness The early church was devoted to the apostles’ teaching (Acts 2:42). We find this teaching in the New Testament epistles. The first of these epistles in order and in importance is Romans. Romans is surely the queen foremost of the epistles. It is the deepest, best systematized of the letters, and most theological, not to mention the longest. It was written by the Apostle Pau...

Key word: Righteousness The early church was devoted to the apostles’ teaching (Acts 2:42). We find this teaching in the New Testament epistles. The first of these epistles in order and in importance is Romans. Romans is surely the queen foremost of the epistles. It is the deepest, best systematized of the letters, and most theological, not to mention the longest. It was written by the Apostle Pau...

Key word: Righteousness The early church was devoted to the apostles’ teaching (Acts 2:42). We find this teaching in the New Testament epistles. The first of these epistles in order and in importance is Romans. Romans is surely the queen foremost of the epistles. It is the deepest, best systematized of the letters, and most theological, not to mention the longest. It was written by the Apostle Pau...

Key word: Righteousness The early church was devoted to the apostles’ teaching (Acts 2:42). We find this teaching in the New Testament epistles. The first of these epistles in order and in importance is Romans. Romans is surely the queen foremost of the epistles. It is the deepest, best systematized of the letters, and most theological, not to mention the longest. It was written by the Apostle Pau...

Key word: Righteousness  The early church was devoted to the apostles’ teaching (Acts 2:42). We find this teaching in the New Testament epistles. The first of these epistles in order and in importance is Romans. Romans is surely the queen foremost of the epistles. It is the deepest, best systematized of the letters, and most theological, not to mention the longest. It was written by the Apost...

Key word: Holy Spirit  Acts is Luke’s second contribution to the New Testament. Combined with his gospel, Luke is the most prolific writer of the New Testament Scriptures. The title often assigned to the book is “The Acts of the Apostles” as they spread the good news about Jesus Christ throughout the Roman Empire. Written in the early 60’s, the events recorded begin with the ascension of Chri...

Key word: “Believe”  The Gospel of John was written some 30 years after the Synoptics, in 90 A.D. By this time new questions and challenges to the person and work of Jesus Christ had arisen, and John writes to address these. As a matter of fact, everything John writes is for the purpose of convincing the reader that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing they will receive...

Key word: “Son of Man”  This Gospel is the longest of the four. It is written by Luke, who was most likely a Gentile companion of Paul. He was a physician, a careful historian and researcher. He is writing his account to Theophilus, a high ranking official, and Luke addresses a second book, Acts to him as well.  Luke gives us more details about the humanity of Jesus than anyone else, beg...

Key word: Immediately  Mark was a cousin of Barnabas and ministered with him and Paul for a time. However, he became a close companion with Peter and most believe his gospel reflects Peter’s account. It was therefore written to a non-Jewish audience and emphasizes action more than teaching. The keyword is “immediately,” found 42 times. Mark’s purpose is to demonstrate that Jesus Christ was th...

Key word: Kingdom  Of the four Gospels, only Matthew and John were written by apostles, who were eye-witnesses of the life and teachings of Jesus. Matthew was a tax collector before his conversion and we hear little of him in the Gospels, but then the Holy Spirit uses him to be the human author of this important book of Scripture.  Matthew was a Jew, writing primarily to Jews. His task w...

The New Testament begins with four Gospels written by four different men, sometimes call evangelists, because they are witnessing to the Good News about Jesus Christ, they tell us about the life and ministry of Jesus from just prior to His birth to His ascension back to the Father. Almost everything we know about the person and ministry of Jesus Christ is found in the Gospels.  We are given f...

In our English Bibles, the Old Testament is comprised of 39 books. The Hebrew Bible has the same books, but groups and combines them differently so that it contains 22 books, the last being 2 Chronicles. The New Testament contains 27 books, and we could group them in 3 or 4 categories. Commonly, the first grouping is history, which contains the four Gospels and Acts; the second is the epistles, be...

As we transition from the Old Testament to the New Testament on our adventure down Route 66, we will take a week to review the Old Testament which we have covered so far. Today's review focuses on the minor prophets.

As we transition from the Old Testament to the New Testament on our adventure down Route 66, we will take a week to review the Old Testament which we have covered so far. Today's review focuses on the major prophets.

As we transition from the Old Testament to the New Testament on our adventure down Route 66, we will take a week to review the Old Testament which we have covered so far. Today's review focuses on the wisdom literature provided throughout the Old Testament.

As we transition from the Old Testament to the New Testament on our adventure down Route 66, we will take a week to review the Old Testament which we have covered so far. Today's review focuses on the early history of the nation of Israel.