To be a good Christian, you gotta be a good Jew. You should be circumcised, eat kosher food, and observe the prayers and rites of Judaism. That’s what everyone thought at first in the earliest expressions of “church.” So God scheduled a corrective zoom session with Peter.

Accompanying reading:

Acts 1-10; 12

The Story, Chapter 28

Let’s face it: if Jesus didn’t really come back from the dead, would anything else He said be worth listening to? Yes, it would! But Easter did happen, and that makes everything Jesus said worth living!

Accompanying reading:

Matthew 27-28

Mark 16

Luke 24

John 19-21

The Story, Chapter 27

On April 8, 1966, the cover of Time magazine asked, “Is God dead?” So what if He was? In Jesus, God died. And life has never been the same since.

Accompanying reading:

Matthew 26-27

Mark 14-15

Luke 22-23

John 13-14; 16-19

The Story, Chapter 26

Most of us have learned about God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit--not three gods, but one God, yet three persons! What’s all the hullabaloo about the Holy Trinity?

Accompanying reading:

Matthew 17; 21

Mark 8-12; 14

Luke 9; 22

John 7-8; 11-12

The Story, Chapter 25

What if God were one of us: not a stranger on the bus, not tryin’ to make His way home, and not a holy rolling stone! What does it mean that Jesus was God (and man)?

Accompanying reading:

Matthew 5-7; 9; 14

Mark 4-6

Luke 10; 15

John 6

The Story, Chapter 24

For much of the Bible, the stress was upon going to, staying in, and returning to the promised land--all because God promised His people He would make them a nation. Then Jesus shows up and priorities seem to have changed.

Accompanying reading:

Matthew 3-4; 11

Mark 1-3

Luke 8

John 1-4

The Story, Chapter 23

The Old Testament often stressed that God set Israel apart to be holy; they were not to intermarry with other nations. Then the promised King of the Jews arrives with anything but a pure family tree!

Accompanying reading:

Matthew 1-2

Luke 1-2

John 1

The Story, Chapter 22

We never want to be that person who says, “Do as I say, not as I do.” We believe actions are as important as words and we will learn their power for transforming others where we live, work and play.

You can live a holy life through Jesus because He was completely holy – and your faith and hope is in Him.

We are told to forgive as we’ve been forgiven. Forgiveness means paying the price for another. In other words, one person “ransoms” another person, giving something in exchange. We have been ransomed, and so we can do the same.