Andy and Helen’s Journey Through The Bible in Five and Half Years
CONTEXT: Paul was writing this letter to the believers in Rome, a mix of Jewish and Gentile believers. He’d heard about the disagreements amongst believers on how to do faith. The Jewish Christians still held...
CONTEXT: Rome was a tough place to live for Christians in the first century AD. The Jewish Christians had come from a long Jewish tradition that believed that the Jewish nation was the chosen people...
CONTEXT: Jesus was a Jew. He was born in a Jewish context. He descended from the line of David. His father was the one true God, the God of the Jewish nation, the God who...
CONTEXT: The current context for this passage we’re going to read today is that there are people out there who are making these verses all about one thing: homosexuality. These are the main verses used...
Jesus broke the rules. In fact, Jesus broke God’s rules. According to the spiritual leaders of the day, Jesus regularly broke one of the Ten Commandments given by God to Moses for His people...
This is a huge subject and one I would have liked to have glossed over as it feels like a real minefield and I feel somewhat out of my depth discussing it. However, Jesus...
On the face of it, today’s account of what Jesus did is pretty low key compared to the awesome miracles we’ve looked at so far. There’s no controlling wind and waves, no turning water...
At the beginning of this month, we saw how Jesus began his ministry in the book of Matthew with a list of blessings, beneficial outcomes to getting it right and doing life God’s way....
The story we’re looking at today is about an unmerciful servant. Neither word is one we use very often in our culture. So let’s start there. A servant in Jesus’ time was sometimes a...
So far this month, we’ve had glimpses of the mind-blowing kingdom that Jesus is inviting us all to be a part of: that new world order where everything is just as it should be....
