Quick Links to Visual Commentary on Romanshttps://youtu.be/jqCmmODoZn0Three basic questions to introduce Paul's letter to the church in Rome: Who is Paul? Why did he write this letter? Who cares? Right? I mean, why should we care about a personal letter written by...
keep scrolling for the whole story...and a treat at the end! Panel 1 Paul writes this letter to the church in Corinth. He started this church, and, in a previous letter scolded them harshly for their inappropriate behavior. Some scholars think this might be the third...
1 Corinthians was written from Ephesus on Paul’s third journey. On his second journey he started the church in Corinth and spent a great deal of time their working with his new friends Aquila and Priscilla. At the beginning of his third journey he traveled directly to...
1 Thessalonians Paul’s first letter to the church in Thessalonica was written shortly after he had been run out of that town by threats and opposition. Soon after Paul’s departure, false teachers crept into the church and tried to convince the people that Jesus had...
This is actually the first letter that Paul wrote. After Paul took his first missionary tour through the region of Galatia he returned home to Antioch and rejoiced that God had freely poured out His Spirit on the Gentiles. This Gentile phenomenon created quite a stir...
This PowerPoint is from a sermon for Advent 1 in 2016.Contrast of Kingdoms The sketches below contrast God's preferred and promised kingdom, on the left, with the human distortion of Kingdom on the right.Overview of DanielDaniel is unique among the prophets because he...
Ezekiel was born during the reign of Josiah, as Jeremiah was preaching about reformation and the King was cleansing the Temple. Ezekiel was born the son of a priest and was most likely trained from an early age to know the Law (especially since Josiah had just found...
Jeremiah Jeremiah was a prophet who began his preaching ministry during the heyday of Josiah’s spiritual reformation and watched the nation slide down a slippery slope of wickedness that eventually ended in the total annihilation of the city of Jerusalem. Jeremiah’s...
JoelJoel, as with many other prophets, was preaching a message of urgency and repentance to a nation that was on the verge of being annihilated by an invading horde of “locusts.” The beginning of his book is doom and gloom, but he also offers a glimmer of hope.This...
Isaiah lived in a world of war, terror, and uncertainty. His ministry happened during a period of Israel’s history when it seemed that the world was falling apart. For a much richer comprehension of Isaiah, read Isaiah’s book while you have your thumb stuck in 2...
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