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The Early Church—what to learn from, what to follow

November 25, 2019 by bible805

As we read Acts and the early letters of Paul, we see the people of the early church selling everything, constantly in worship, doing miracles. Does that mean we should do these things also?

The history of the early church is no doubt exciting, as they worked miracles, held everything in common and lived a life of continual worship.

However, a key question for us living today is which of their actions should we follow as a normative command for the church today—meaning we should keep doing it because they did it and what should we understand simply as a history of the birth of the church, something to learn from in principle, but not necessarily a practice to precisely follow?

That’s what this podcast is about. Below you can listen and below that is a PDF of the notes.

To download a copy of the PDF of the notes, Click the following link: NOTES for The Early Church—what to learn from, what to follow

Changed lives and a world turned upside down Acts, James, Galatians

November 20, 2019 by bible805

What does it take to change a habit?

We’ve all struggled to lose weight or exercise or get up earlier or all sorts of things we wish we’d do differently.

But it’s never easy to change something we’ve been doing for many years, is it?

It’s never easy to change even the most simple of habits, but in our podcast today we’ll see that the followers of Jesus not only changed their personal behavior from that of fearful cowards to fearless leaders, but that thousands of Jewish believers totally changed the faith practices that had been the core of their identity since the time of Abraham.

In our podcast, we’ll look at the history of the incredible changes that took place after Jesus Resurrection that we read about in the book of Acts and then we’ll look at two of the earliest books that were written to the early church, James and Galatians.

CLICK the following link to download the PDF of the notes for the podcast and then below the podcast is a print out of the notes: Notes Birth of the Christian Church, Acts, James, Galatians

Who is Jesus? Answers from history, religions, and the Bible

November 14, 2019 by bible805

Who is Jesus?

Secular history and all the major religions of the world agree He existed, but they have very different answers as to who He is.

In our podcast today we’ll look at the history that verifies His existence, the beliefs about Him that have no basis in history all to help us answer the most important question of time and eternity—Who do you think Jesus is?

Click the following link for a copy of the PDF notes for the Podcast: PDF NOTES Who is Jesus, Answers from history, other religions and the Bible

Below the podcast is a copy of the notes:

Intro to the Gospels: Images of the Incarnation

October 27, 2019 by bible805

What is the most important thing about the Christian faith? How does it claim to connect you with God, forgive your sins, and give you eternal life?

So back to our question: what is the most important thing about the Christian faith?

• Is it knowing all the things you learned about the Old Testament if you’ve been listening to this podcast the last few months?

• Is it holding to certain beliefs like a 6-day Creation theory or 5-point Calvinism?

• Or is it what you do like being sure that you don’t do cheat on your spouse or taxes?

• As we will see in our lesson today it isn’t a what or a what you do, that is the most important thing about Christianity, that is at the core of what it takes to connect you with God, it’s a WHO

Below the podcast is a link to a downloadable PDF of the notes for the podcast and below that the notes are written out.

Click the following link to download the notes for the podcast: NOTES the Gospels, Images of the Incarnation

Conversations with God, the book of Malachi

September 28, 2019 by bible805

What kind of a relationship do you have with someone if you never talk to them?

OR if they talk to you and you ignore them?

In our podcast today we’ll review God’s conversations with His people throughout the Old Testament and what he finally had to say to them before becoming silent for 400 years. Along the way, we’ll talk about how we ought to respond when we read his messages today.

To download PDF of the notes for the Podcast, click the following link: Malachi-NOTES

Zechariah and Captain America—why does God chose to speak in images?

September 22, 2019 by bible805

If you want to describe the perfect super-hero, a sterling example of strength, integrity, leadership, and self-giving, you could list these characteristics in minute dictionary detail or you could simply say, “Captain America.”

An image can contain volumes of backstory and meaning in a few words—the challenge is you need to understand the meaning of the image.

The books of the Old Testament and Zachariah is one of the main ones that do this, uses imagery in much the same way.

The challenge to modern readers have is that we don’t know the backstory of the imagery. For us visions of myrtle trees, golden lampstands, and a flying scroll make about as much sense to us as Captain America, Thor, and Spiderman would make to the Old Testament Jews.

In our podcast, we’ll discover the meaning of the images in this fascinating book that also contains more specific prophecy about Jesus than any other Old Testament book other than Isaiah.

For a PDF of the notes and more information, click the following link and following the podcast is the complete print out of the notes: NOTES Zechariah and Captain America–why God uses images

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