Our journey through Psalms will begin March 1st and run for five weeks. During our study we will look at how the book was used by the Hebrew people and continues to be used by Jewish and Christian believers today. We will use the different genres of poetry found throughout as our entry point into these ancient texts.
YouTube videos with accompanying study guides will be uploaded every Wednesday until Holy Week.
Our journey through Psalms will begin March 1st and run for five weeks. During our study we will look at how the book was used by the Hebrew people and continues to be used by Jewish and Christian believers today. We will use the different genres of poetry found throughout as our entry point into these ancient texts.
YouTube videos with accompanying study guides will be uploaded every Wednesday until Holy Week.
Our journey through Psalms will begin March 1st and run for five weeks. During our study we will look at how the book was used by the Hebrew people and continues to be used by Jewish and Christian believers today. We will use the different genres of poetry found throughout as our entry point into these ancient texts.
YouTube videos with accompanying study guides will be uploaded every Wednesday until Holy Week.
Our journey through Psalms will begin March 1st and run for five weeks. During our study we will look at how the book was used by the Hebrew people and continues to be used by Jewish and Christian believers today. We will use the different genres of poetry found throughout as our entry point into these ancient texts.
YouTube videos with accompanying study guides will be uploaded every Wednesday until Holy Week.
Our journey through Psalms will begin March 1st and run for five weeks.
John Calvin referred to it as the Anatomy of the Soul. Others have called Psalms the ‘Songbook of the Temple Period’ (roughly 600 BCE – 70 CE).
During our study we will look at how it was used by the Hebrew people and continues to be used by Jewish and Christian believers today, and the different styles of poetry found throughout.
Matthew 6 When you do good deeds, don’t try to show off. If you do, you won’t get a reward from your Father in heaven.
2 When you give to the poor, don’t blow a loud horn. That’s what show-offs do in the synagogues and on the street corners, because they are always looking for praise. I can assure you that they already have their reward.
3 When you give to the poor, don’t let anyone know about it. 4 Then your gift will be given in secret. Your Father knows what is done in secret and will reward you.
5 When you pray, don’t be like those show-offs who love to stand up and pray in the synagogues and on the street corners. They do this just to look good. I can assure you that they already have their reward.
6 When you pray, go into a room alone and close the door. Pray to your Father in private. He knows what is done in private and will reward you.
16 When you go without eating, don’t try to look gloomy as those show-offs do when they go without eating. I can assure you that they already have their reward. 17 Instead, comb your hair and wash your face. 18 Then others won’t know you are going without eating. But your Father sees what is done in private, and he will reward you.
19 Don’t store up treasures on earth! Moths and rust can destroy them, and thieves can break in and steal them. 20 Instead, store up your treasures in heaven, where moths and rust cannot destroy them, and thieves cannot break in and steal them. 21 Your heart will always be where your treasure is.
In week four of our study, we look at the letters to Philemon and the Philippians. Philemon is essentially a private letter intended to be read aloud, forcing Philemon to do Paul’s bidding, as it would show a lack of social grace to refuse. We have no idea what the issue was between Philemon and Onesimus, but we do know the historic church has used this letter to justify slavery. The letter to the Philippians is the second of Paul’s ‘prison letters’, and gives insight into the organizing structure, and early hymnody and theology of the first Christian communities, long before the four Gospels set the standard Christian narrative of Jesus and his closest followers.
Join this five week study with video & written supplement, as we look at the history and cultural make-up of some of the earliest Christian communities outside of Jerusalem, and explore early theology through the Letters of Paul.
In week three of our study, we look at the two letters to the Corinthians. The 1st letter to the Corinthians includes the teachings of Paul on sexual morality, eating food sacrificed to idols, the gifts of the spirit, the Words of Institution for the Eucharist, words about love, and equality between women and men. We dig through what Paul really said about gay men and women speaking in public. The second letter is a much angrier, frustrated Paul who demands people respect his authority.
Join this five week study with video & written supplement, as we look at the history and cultural make-up of some of the earliest Christian communities outside of Jerusalem, and explore early theology through the Letters of Paul.
In week two of our study we look at the 1st Letter to the Thessalonians and the Letter to the Galatians. These are the earliest letters of Paul, c. 41-51 CE, and give us insight into the development of theology and issues of authority with the first Christians.
Join this five week study with video & written supplement, as we look at the history and cultural make-up of some of the earliest Christian communities outside of Jerusalem, and explore early theology through the Letters of Paul.
Debb and Deb are back, discussing Lent, introspection, and Easter memories.
The Barefoot Evangelist 