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Year 2 begins with the gospel of Luke. He is not identified by name in the gospel, but was well known by early believers. Acts 27:1- 28:15 places the author in Rome along with the apostle Paul. Luke was not an apostle nor did he witness to the gospel events; however, being a companion of Paul, who was an apostle of Jesus, gave him direct access to source material. Both his gospel and the book of Acts were written in letter form to Theophilus.

Year 1 begins with the gospel of John. Wait- we don’t start with Genesis? Don’t worry...Genesis is the next book. John is an excellent starting place because it is an evangelistic book- John wrote this book to persuade people to come to a saving belief in Jesus. I have personally done in-depth Bible studies of John several times and have seen and learned something new every time.

Romans is Paul’s longest letter, written around AD 57. There is no question of authorship, as Paul identifies himself as the writer in his greeting (Romans. 1:1-7). Paul had a secretary named Tertius who did the actually writing (Rom. 16:22 I Tertius, who wrote this letter, greet you in the Lord.), which was customary in a time when writing was done with scarce resources. We think nothing of writing something and re-writing it as we edit, because we don’t have to write on pap

You’ve decided to buy yourself a new Bible. Maybe your current one is really old, or you are intrigued by a Bible you saw in an ad or at someone’s house. Or, like so many of us today, you’ve been relying on a Bible app in your phone, but have decided to go for a hard copy that you can hold in your hand and write notes in.

Judges in the time of the Old Testament were both legal and political. During the time of Moses, the elders of the tribes acted as judges in settling disputes. Samuel and his sons were circuit-riding judges, traveling to different towns to act as judge.

Do you look at the Bible and wish there was a Google Maps for navigating all of its books? Do you wonder, as I often did, if there was a tool that could help you learn the best way to read the Bible?

After years of wandering, the sinful generation (except for Joshua and Caleb) had died out, Moses had passed the torch of leadership The Bible has five “poetry” books: Job (yup, Job is considered poetry, as well as wisdom literature), Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and the Song of Solomon (which is one of the most explicit love poems ever written!). Poetry is just one of the forms of literature in the Bible. There is a flow-chart in the Joshua, Part 2 blog that shows some of

So, if you’ve been reading for a while, you might have seen the first issue with this definition. In a previous post, we discussed Newton’s laws of thermodynamics. Entropy is the term for the gradual break down of all things. Everything trends toward destruction and chaos. Why would evolution be the only process that trends toward complexity and betterment? There is nothing else in creation that works that way.