One woman's experience with the Fifth Gospel, and what it means for the rest of us
by Heather Zempel
"And now I am going to Jerusalem, drawn there irresistibly by the Holy Spirit, not knowing what awaits me" (Acts 20:22).
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Representing the "emerging church" community, I joined six other clergy at St. George's College for a two-week pilgrimage to the Holy Land. I ignored my friends' concerns, my own fears and doubts, and my mother's desperate pleas to remain safely in the United States. Like Paul, ...
Discuss key questions Christians have faced over two millennia - and provide answers for those questions for today.
The How We Got Our Bible course provides more than an introduction to church history. It helps people ask the key questions Christians have faced over two millennia—and provides answers for those questions for today.
Session 1
Discerning What Is ScriptureThe Bible contains four accounts of Jesus' life, but Christians in the first few centuries knew of at least fifty. Sorting out which books were ...
Discuss key questions Christians have faced over two millennia - and provide answers for those questions for today.
The Survey: Reformation to the Present course provides more than an introduction to church history. It helps people ask the key questions Christians have faced over two millennia—and provides answers for those questions for today.
Session 1
The Reformation: The Breakthrough Martin Luther's discovery of grace forever changed his life and the life of the church.
Explore the mission that God started after Adam and Eve, perfected in Christ, and continues with us today.
This six-session course covers such topics as Adam and Eve, who distorted perfect creation, putting into motion God's mission to restore humanity. Through Abraham God would bless the entire world and establish an everlasting covenant with mankind. Moses lead His people out of slavery and gave the law to guide them and enable them to be God's ambassadors to the world. God promised David that "Your ...
Discuss key questions Christians have faced over two millennia - and provide answers for those questions for today.
The Early Church course provides more than an introduction to church history. It helps people ask the key questions Christians have faced over two millennia—and provides answers for those questions for today.
Session 1
Paul and His Times The apostle Paul was the church's greatest missionary.
Session 2
Early MartyrsIn the first three centuries, many Christians courageously gave their lives to testify ...
A study of six classic hymns and their meaning in our lives today.
The writers of our favorite hymns were not just happy, pious, and "old-fashioned" people. One of these hymns was written by a man who experienced a dramatic conversion from gang member to preacher, another by a man who lost his entire family in a sinking ship, and yet another by a woman who was discouraged in her work as a missionary. It is through these trials that these men and women of God were ...
Discover God's plan of redemption, from creation, to Christ and finally to our role in the story.
More Bibles are sold than any other book, yet few understand this bestseller. Why do we need both an Old and New Testament? Who are the main characters in the Bible and what significance do they have? Can anybody who isn't a Bible scholar really understand this complex book? The good news is we can. Use this six-session course to help unlock the Bible.
Discuss the key questions Christians have faced over two millennia - and provide answers for those questions for today.
The Overview: Early Church & Middle Ages course provides more than an introduction to church history. It helps people ask the key questions Christians have faced over two millennia—and provides answers for those questions for today.
Introduction - Why Study Church History?
Session 1
Persecution in the Early ChurchBeginning as a despised, illegal sect, Christianity endured 300 years of persecution ...
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