How Could Joseph Divorce Mary When They Weren’t Married? Matt 1 Pt 7
I spent the last three weeks pouring through the Kehati Mishnah Commentaries on Ketubot, Kiddushin, and Gittin in order to study for this lesson in…
Category: New Testament Backgrounds
Why is Bathsheba in Messiah’s Genealogy? Matt 1 Part 5
Well, here we are with our last PG-13 teaching for a long time, thank goodness. I much prefer teaching for a general audience but it’s…
Why Was Ruth in Messiah’s Genealogy? Matthew 1 Pt 4
So this week we will be talking about one of the most admirable women in Scripture – a pagan-born Moabitess named Ruth. But we have…
Why was Rahab in Messiah’s Genealogy? Matthew 1 part 3
This teaching will be PG-13 for obvious reasons! How many of us would brag about one of our great great great…. grandmas being a pagan…
This is our first PG-13 teaching so I must caution parents to either preview this or watch it with your kids. I give a warning…
How do we study New Testament History?
Well, this week I am finally moved into my new house and the new studio. I am teaching the kids about how to find responsible,…
Hannukah/Maccabean Revolt – Entire Seven-Part Series
Okay, so here we have all seven parts of my teaching series on Hannukah and why it is so important to understand. We start with…
Hannukah Parts 2 and 3
So here is part 2 and 3 of my Maccabean Revolt series. There will be one more installment before the beginning of Hannukah where we…
Maccabean Revolt Part 1 – Antiochus Epiphanes and the Hellenized Jews
Did you know that when Christians talk about the Maccabean Revolt, they focus entirely on the Seleucid king Antiochus Epiphanes who defiled the Temple, but…
Feast Offerings – What did it mean to come before the Lord Empty Handed?
So this week is our fourth installment in the Backgrounds of the New Testament series but it is also the second installment in our series…