The Barefoot Evangelist

This topic was covered in Teen Time, but here is a deeper presentation on ‘satan’. The Biblical version of satan is the tempter, the one who challenges us to turn away from God’s desire for our lives and follow another path. The Tempter was part of the heavenly community, not an occupant of another level…

3rd Sunday in Lent Lent is the long purple section. It is 40 days + 6 Sundays before Easter. It is a time to think about our choices and how we want to do better. It is also a time of prayer and giving. How to Lent with Kids Our Story Activity Today’s story needs…

3rd Sunday in Lent Lent is the long purple section. It is 40 days + 6 Sundays before Easter. It is a time to think about our choices and how we want to do better. It is also a time of prayer and giving. How to Lent for Teens Anger is a powerful emotion. It…

You might have noticed when you walk into church that all the cloth covering at the front have been changed. Suddenly, the purple has been replaced by gold, or the green that has been up front for months is now purple or blue. Beginning in the 12th century, the colours were given assigned times and…

Most mainline Protestant traditions accept women as ministers and priest, but many other churches do not. The earliest church did have women in all positions of leadership, and historians have been working on gathering evidence for at least 40 years. There is no question. Yes, women were priests. Unfortunately many in the church have actively…

Christians tend to read numbers in the Bible as just that, the number. We believe that there were 12 disciples (even though there are actually 15 different men named throughout the four Gospels). We believe Jesus was in the wilderness for 40 days, and the list goes on. If we look at these numbers though…

In week three of our study, we see John turn to spirit and visit the heavenly temple where he witnesses worship and the opening of the first six seals of the scroll. Join this six week study with video & written supplement, as we look at the history, cultural context and the meaning behind the…

In the 2nd century CE, the early fathers thought they were doing something helpful for all who read the Bible: they assigned writers to anonymous books, and merged characters so there seemed to be a few significant players rather than a number of people with the same name. Instead of being helpful, it made tracing…