Paul continues his letter to the church in Rome. Last time I reviewed his reasons for writing (laying a strong theological foundation and his plans to visit on his way to Spain), as recorded in Romans 1-5 and 15-16. The rest of the book (chapters 6-14) focuses on Christian living. As the NIV study bible [...]
Category: Bible Topical Studies
Life of Paul 32
The next phase of Paul's life began after he visited Corinth one last time. In our last visit with Paul, he had received word through Titus about Corinth while in Macedonia. He wrote 2nd Corinthians and we looked at that letter. We read in Acts 20:2-3 that, "when he had gone through those regions and [...]
Life of Paul 31
When we last left Paul, he was still in northern Macedonia after having left Ephesus at the culmination of his three-year ministry there. He had been expecting to hear from Titus about how things are in Corinth but had not done so, so out of concern for matters there he crossed the Aegean Sea in [...]
Godliness
Today's Sunday School lesson was on the character quality of godliness. I wanted to summarize here some of the thoughts I had in the preparation and delivery of this lesson. The focal passage for the lesson was from Paul's first letter to Timothy, chapter 4. Paul was writing Timothy from his house arrest in Rome, [...]
AI Imagery
I've been delving a little into some of the capabilities of the AI tools that are becoming more and more available. At first it was just a curiosity, but I'm actually finding the image generation capabilities quite useful for my adult Sunday School class teaching. For decades now I've been using my computer as a [...]
The Watchmaker's Pulse 