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1. The Books of the New Testament

2019-02-09

The Bible did not fall from the sky, written in “Ye Olde English” with the words of Jesus in red print. It came through the story and struggles of the early church. The Holy Spiri…

2. The World of Jesus and the Apostles

2019-02-09

If it had been up to a human strategist to plan the successful entry of God into history, it is unlikely he or she would have chosen locations like Bethlehem, Nazareth, and Galile…

3. The Life and Death of Jesus

2019-02-09

When we see Jesus announcing the kingdom of God, we also see him doing all kinds of things like healing people and celebrating with all the wrong kind of folk—and then explaining …

4. The Resurrection of Jesus

2019-02-09

The resurrection of Jesus surprised everyone in the ancient world. Even those who held a belief in some kind of afterlife did not imagine that a person could come back from the gr…

5. The Ministry of the Apostle Paul

2019-02-09

Paul the apostle, the traveler, the Roman citizen, the letter writer, and the theologian is the one who invented something we can call *Christian theology.* In Paul we have a man …

6. The Early Christians and the Church

2019-02-09

The early Christians believed in the one God. They believed in covenant and creation. They believed this had all come to a climax in the Messiah. They had received the Spirit . . …

7. The Mission of the Church

2019-02-09

The church has always been a missional community. Wherever Christians have gone, they’ve taken their faith with them and shared the good news about Jesus. But they not only spoke …

8. The Creation of the New Testament

2019-02-09

When God gave people his Word, the Bible, he did not give them the finished puzzle. In a sense, he gave them the box filled with so many pieces that it took centuries for them to …