UNFOLDING THE WORD With Dr. Gary Kuhne

The opening chapters of Genesis explain some critical truths that help us to make sense out of our lives and make sense out of the world in which we find ourselves. We discover the effects of sin on the individual, the family, and the society. We also discover that God, the Creator of the world, began to show a merciful and gracious solution for sin that offered to those that would choose to repen...

“SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS” are extended weekly Bible teaching times in which I go through a Book of Bible verse by verse. My current exposition is taken from the Book of Ephesians. The SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS are posted on Sunday each week.

I Kings 19 explains to us how the prophet Elijah fell into a time of great discouragement, what “triggered” the time of discouragement and how he ended up in “pits of discouragement”. We learned God still loved him despite his discouragement and reached out to him to provide both strength and teaching to correct Elijah too limited a view of God and how He works in this world, which was at the root...

“SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS” are extended weekly Bible teaching times in which I go through a Book of Bible verse by verse. My current exposition is taken from the Book of Ephesians. The SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS are posted on Sunday each week.

I Kings 19 explains to us how the prophet Elijah fell into great discouragement, depressed to the point of wanting God to take his life. After highlighting “4 Triggers” that can push us toward times of discouragement and depression and some “slippery steps” that pull us downward on the stairway to the “pits”, we learned that God reaches out to His children when they are in the “pits”. While God se...

“SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS” are extended weekly Bible teaching times in which I go through a Book of Bible verse by verse. My current exposition is taken from the Book of Ephesians. The SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS are posted on Sunday each week.

I Kings 19 explains to us how the prophet Elijah fell into great discouragement, depressed to the point of wanting God to take his life. After highlighting “4 Triggers” that can push us toward times of discouragement and depression, vs. 3-5 identify some “slippery steps” that pull us downward on the stairway to the “pits”! In vs. 7-14 we discover how God reaches out to His children when they are i...

I Kings 19 explains to us how the prophet Elijah fell into great discouragement, depressed to the point of wanting God to take his life. After highlighting “4 Triggers” that can push us toward times of discouragement and depression, vs. 3-5 identify some “slippery steps” that pull us downward on the stairway to the “pits”! We slip down when we shift from “faith into fear”. We slip down further whe...

SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS” are extended weekly Bible teaching times in which I go through a Book of Bible verse by verse. My current exposition is taken from the Book of Ephesians. The SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS are posted on Sunday each week.

I Kings 19 explains to us how the prophet Elijah fell into great discouragement, depressed to the point of wanting God to take his life. The chapter explains how we can drift into such times, how God meets us in the midst of such times, and the steps to climb back out of the pits and back into productive service. The chapter begins by highlighting “4 Triggers” that often can push us toward times o...

“SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS” are extended weekly Bible teaching times in which I go through a Book of Bible verse by verse. My current exposition is taken from the Book of Ephesians. The SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS are posted on Sunday each week.

The seventh church being measured by God was the church at Laodicea, wealthy and powerful city that was at the center of trade, banking, and influence. In a sense, Laodicea was a church in an environment similar to the church in America at this point in history. Because of the wealth of the region and city, the church had to be materially prosperous in a way that was not reflective of many other p...

“SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS” are extended weekly Bible teaching times in which I go through a Book of Bible verse by verse. My current exposition is taken from the Book of Ephesians. The SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS are posted on Sunday each week

The sixth church being measured by God was the church at Philadelphia, a wealthy and powerful city that housed the major Roman military base that provided protection and control for the region. The church did not receive a rebuke from Christ – instead they got a message of encouragement. Christ began by reminding the church of two important facts. First, it is Christ, not our human strategies, tha...

“SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS” are extended weekly Bible teaching times in which I go through a Book of Bible verse by verse. My current exposition is taken from the Book of Ephesians. The SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS are posted on Sunday each week.

The fifth church being measured by God was the church at Sardis, a wealthy and powerful city sitting built on an imposing hill that made it nearly immune to defeat by opposing armies, a city in which the culture was complacent in their position. While the church was wealthy by human standard, Christ strongly confronts it because of two major problems. First, the church had a reputation without rea...

“SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS” are extended weekly Bible teaching times in which I go through a Book of Bible verse by verse. My current exposition is taken from the Book of Ephesians. The SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS are posted on Sunday each week.

The fourth church being measured by God was the church at Thyatira, a smaller city that was a center for the textile and dye industry of that era. It was the home town of Lydia, the seller of purple goods that we encounter in Acts 16:14-15. While the church had some strengths, God confronts it because the church as tolerating the existence of two emphases that would destroy the vitality of the chu...

“SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS” are extended weekly Bible teaching times in which I go through a Book of Bible verse by verse. My current exposition is taken from the Book of Ephesians. The SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS are posted on Sunday each week.

The third church being measured by God was the church at Pergamum. Smyrna was wealthy city, a center of learning, religion, and the arts – a sophisticated center of culture. The church is commended because it remained true to Christ’s Name in the face of false othe4r worldviews. The church was also commended because they people did not deny their faith in the face of community opposition, an oppos...

“SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS” are extended weekly Bible teaching times in which I go through a Book of Bible verse by verse. My current exposition is taken from the Book of Ephesians. The SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS are posted on Sunday each week.

The second church being measured by God was the church at Smyrna. Smyrna was a port city located some 35 miles from Ephesus and was the center of the enforcement of emperor worship. The church family at Smyrna, refusing to publicly bow before the emperor’s mandate, was facing severe opposition and trials. In fact the were facing tribulation, poverty and slander because they refused to “conform to...

“SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS” are extended weekly Bible teaching times in which I go through a Book of Bible verse by verse. My current exposition is taken from the Book of Ephesians. The SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS are posted on Sunday each week.

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“SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS” are extended weekly Bible teaching times in which I go through a Book of Bible verse by verse. My current exposition is taken from the Book of Ephesians. The SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS are posted on Sunday each week.