John 8:1-11 and Luke 7:36-50 teach a powerful lesson about the Savior’s willingness and ability to forgive sin.  In the scriptures, when people genuinely cry out to Jesus to be forgiven, He always responds with a granting of this request.  I asked the students if they could think of otherContinue Reading

Growing In Revelation This chapter outlines the progression the Samaritan woman takes in recognizing Jesus as the Messiah. The woman starts by addressing Jesus as “thou, a Jew” (verse 9) to “Sir” (verse 11) to “I perceive that thou art a prophet” (verse 19) to fishing to see if JesusContinue Reading

This letter is the most affectionate of all of Paul’s letters. Philippi was the capital of ancient Macedonia, in northern Greece. According to Acts 16, it was the first city in Europe in which Paul founded a Christ centered group of people after leaving Asia Minor in the late 40’sContinue Reading

Colossians According to the text, when “Paul” wrote Colossians, he was in prison (Colossians 4.3, 18). It was “written” by Paul and Timothy, and it mentions Epaphras as one who brought the gospel to Colossae, a city in the Lycus Valley with Hierapolis and Laodicea. The text of Colossians containsContinue Reading

Hebrews – An Introduction Today we will briefly examine the text of the book of Hebrews in the New Testament and what we think is going on this text. We will look at who we think wrote Hebrews, when it was written, etc. First of all we know that it’sContinue Reading

The “Messianic Secret” in Mark – Julie Smith As found in The Gospel according to Mark: New Testament Commentary, Brigham Young University, p. 901-903. There is a most curious aspect to Mark’s Gospel: Jesus frequently tells people to not tell others what he has done for them and sometimes heContinue Reading

From Lawrence Mykytiuk’s BAR article identifying real New Testament political figuresLawrence Mykytiuk   •  01/10/2019 As found on Bible History Daily In “New Testament Political Figures Confirmed” in the September/October 2017 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review, Purdue University scholar Lawrence Mykytiuk examines the political figures in the New Testament who can beContinue Reading