1 Corinthians & Being a Life-Long Learner

I taught 1 Corinthians last year, so the process of studying the book this year should have been: reread the book, see if I still agree with my notes, and present something similar to what I [...]

For years now, Philippians has been a favourite book of mine, and a favourite to teach. I have always been very challenged by the message of it. In years past the challenges that stood out were: [...]

This last year I had the privilege of teaching the gospel of Luke, and this year I followed it up by teaching Acts, the continuing narrative of Luke’s gospel. Yes, they are indeed one unified [...]

Who is the naked man? I asked the students if they had any questions before I started teaching Mark. This is one of the questions they had. This was tuesday, and I knew that I would not be [...]

For Freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore and do not submit again to the yoke of slavery.  Galatians 5:1 Why would the Galatian church want to reject the grace of Christ and return [...]

Titus had his work cut out for him as he was assigned to put the Cretan church into order. The island of Crete had a history of piracy, and the Cretans were known as “liars, evil beasts, lazy [...]

As I prepared to teach Joel, one question continued to stand out in my mind, “Why did God choose Joel as the book to prophesy the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost?”.  For those [...]

Grief is a process.  Sometimes we don’t know how to how to express it.  Sometimes we have no words, and that’s OK. Lamentations is five laments over the fall of Jerusalem.  The first four are [...]

God called Jeremiah at a young age.  His life as a prophet was not easy.  His job was to call the people back to God and the covenant.  For this he was beaten, thrown in jail, thrown in a [...]

Recently I had the opportunity to teach on Jonah and Nahum, two minor prophets with powerful messages about God’s character. When we think of Jonah, the first thing that comes to most people’s [...]