Pastors Confidential

Moving right along in our overview of The Whole Bible; today we discuss the stories and ideas unique to the Gospel of Luke.

Today's episode focuses on the Gospel of Luke, especially the Christmas Story.

After a long holiday break, we resume our journey through the Crossways Bible curriculum. Today's episode focuses on the second half of Matthew. 

This is the last podcast of 2023. We cover the first part of Matthew's Gospel today, we will return to it in the New Year when Crossways resumes again.

Today we finish discussing the Gospel of Mark, focusing on two stories where Jesus healed blind men.

We are finally in the New Testament! Today we discuss the first half of Mark's Gospel. The Crossways curriculum begins with Mark because many scholars believe his was the first gospel written.

The final episode before getting to Jesus in the Gospels! Today we discuss the world of 1st century Judaism -- the world Jesus is born into. 

We are still discussing the the period between the two testaments: today we focus on the expectations of a Messiah. What? How? Who? And the question of the Gentiles - are they in or out?

Why do Catholics have more books in their Bibles than Protestants? How did they decide which books to include in the canon and which to leave out? Today we discuss the process of canonization, the Apocrypha and the Pseudepigrapha. 

What happened during the 400 years between the Old and New Testaments? Today we discuss the shifting of power between the Persians, the Jews, the Greeks, and the Romans during the Intertestamental Period.