https://youtu.be/VOjC-1i5B-s?si=9m_KTp1NBfjdNiYR Scene we discussed in Sunday School https://youtu.be/ZJ3AvfAGzBo?si=dluB7uFhHdCR-Fyy INTRODUCTIONAnd so we come to Romans! Paul’s letter to the church in Rome ranks high, not just in ‘religious’ literature, but by any standards of culture, intellect, and overall human wisdom. It is about God and the world; about what it means, and what it might mean,… Continue reading Romans – The New Testament In Its World – NT Wright/Mike Bird
Politics by Robert Robinson: Two rural men argue about politics. A picture of Teddy Roosevelt is on the front page of a newspaper one of the men is holding.31 December 1916 Chapter 21 INTRODUCTION If there was one church that caused Paul to pull his hair out and made him age before his time, it… Continue reading 1 and 2 Corinthians – The New Testament In Its World – Wright and Bird
THE NEW TESTAMENT IN ITS WORLD – WRIGHT AND BIRD, ZONDERVAN/SPCKAll of the following quotes are taken directly from “The New Testament In Its World,” by NT Wright and Michael Bird, Zondervan/SPCK INTRODUCTIONThe Thessalonian letters, among the earliest of Paul’s extant letters, are among the earliest writings of the whole New Testament, probably written within… Continue reading Thessalonians – The New Testament In Its World – Wright and Bird
The Conversion of Saint Paul by Domenico Morelli, 1876. The reason Paul was ‘doing theology’ was not that he happened to have the kind of brain that delighted in playing with and rearranging large, complex abstract ideas. He was doing theology because the life of God’s people depended on it, depended on his doing it… Continue reading A Primer on Pauline Theology
I believe that we need to read Paul with a sense of his own intense conviction that he was exploring a new country—as fertile, beautiful and exhilarating, above all as real and tangible in its working, as any that a sixteenth-century sailor might have run across in his voyages of discovery. Did Paul transform Christianity?… Continue reading The Story of Paul’s Life and Ministry
The Carpenter's Nail 