Abraham – Hagar and Sarah
Paul will use this story in Galatians 4:21-31 in his argument as to how the Church is the true heir of Abraham and successor to God’s promises to him.
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Bible Study
Abraham – The Covenant (Notes)
For Paul, it isn’t that God makes a covenant with his people through Abraham and in the same way God makes a covenant with his people through Jesus; rather these covenants are the same covenant.
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Abraham – The Covenant
This week we are looking at the Covenant with Abraham and Paul’s use of this Covenant as the foundation for his message. The readings for the discussion this week are Genesis 12:1-3, Genesis 15, Romans 4:1-5, 13-17, and Galatians 3:6-14, 25-29.
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Abraham – Melchizedek (Notes)
This week we are going to work through the different layers of meaning of the narrative of Abram and Melchizedek found in Genesis 14, Psalm 110, and Hebrews 7 – the literal, allegorical (spiritual), moral, and anagogical (end-times).
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Abraham – The Call of Abram (Notes)
Genesis tells us very little about who Abram was and why God called him specifically to leave his home. At first reading, the story appears as simply a quaint historical account with little relevance today. The book of Joshua and the oral Torah fills in these gaps.
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Abraham – The Call of Abram
It is through these stories of Abraham that I want us to develop a deeper and broader understanding of how to read Scripture.
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Abraham – An Introduction
This first week we’ll look at the Call of Abraham, followed by Melchizedek, Hagar/Ishmael and Sarah/Isaac, and finishing with the Sacrifice of Isaac. The readings will be not only the Biblical account of Abraham, but also may include other verses of Scripture and some extra-biblical Jewish and Christian perspectives.
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Philemon, pt.2
In Paul’s invocation of other people in his greeting and benediction, we are reminded that our life in Christ is never an individual endeavor, but that we are always part of a community when we are speaking or when being addressed.
Philemon, pt.1
Within this letter, Paul shows the practical application of the gospel teaching to a situation that would normally result in Onesimus’s death or severe physical punishment.
Colossians 3:12-4:18
As you read through these verses, think of how verses 4:5-6 should govern our lives with others.
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