General

October 21, 2021

“The Good News of the Reign of God— Preaching and Parables”

From Jesus in the Church’s Gospels: Modern Scholarship and the Earliest Sources By John Reumann · 1968 Ask any hundred New Testament scholars around the world, […]
October 21, 2021

A History of the Jewish People in the time of Jesus Chris

by Emil Schurer, vol. 2, 1885, pp 134-34. With the appearance of Messianic times a new course of the world, a new age is to begin. […]
October 9, 2021

Linked to Abraham

By Barbara Buzzard Let’s explore a bit more about Abraham – one of the Heroes of the Hall of Faith which Sarah told us about. There […]
August 30, 2021

A Theology of the New Testament

by G.E. Ladd “Somewhere in this historical development emerged a new idiom – this age and the Age to Come…The idiom emerges into full expression in […]
August 30, 2021

“Jesus preached far more than the gospel of sin management.”

by John Eldredge, The Journey of Desire: Searching for the Life We Always Dreamed Of, p. 111-120. “Nearly every Christian I have spoken with has some idea […]
August 15, 2021

The Church of Acts

According to scriptures like Acts 2:42-47; Heb. 2:4 the NT church was distinguished by: Personal eyewitnesses like the 12 Apostles, Paul and others like Stephen;  Sharing […]
July 24, 2021

The Power and Rights of God as Creator

International Critical Commentary, Romans 9:19-29, p. 266-267 “It is necessary to see exactly how much St. Paul does say, and how much he does not. He never […]
July 24, 2021

How then did “the land” become “the world”?

From John Stott, The Message of Romans, p. 130. “To our initial astonishment, Paul portrays God’s promise as being that Abraham would be heir of the […]
June 19, 2021

Luther and the Gospel

by Sir Anthony F. Buzzard “[Luther] created by a dogmatic criterion a canon of the gospel within the canon of the books. He wrote: ‘Those Apostles […]