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Bible Lives

Bible Lives

1. The Abraham family

1-1 The Abraham Family

1-2 The Call of Abram

1-2-2 The Call of Abram

1-3-1 Moments of Faith

1-3-2 " Even as Sarah..."

1-4 Joseph as a Type of Christ

2. Jacob

2-1 Jacob: Really Our Example

2-2 The Human Side of Jacob

2-2-2 Jacob, Rachel and Leah

2-2-3 The Weakness of Jacob

2-3-1 Jacob's Name Change

2-3-2 The Humility of Jacob

2-3-3 Jacob's Perception of God

2-3-4 The Love of God for Jacob

2-3-5 Jacob and the God of his Father: Christians and Parental Expectation

2-4-1 Jacob and the Promises

2-4-2 Jacob and Jesus

2-4-3 Jacob's Blessings of his Sons

2-5 Jacob's Wrestling with God

2-6 Jacob and Imputed Righteousness

3. Job

3.1 Job: a Pattern of Growth

3-1-2 The Names of God in Job

3-1-2-1 Job's Spiritual Growth

3-1-3 Allusions to Job in the New Testament

3-1-4 Job and David

3-1-5 Job and Christ

3-2-1 The Conversion of Job

3-2-3 The Role of Elihu in Job

3-3-1 Job in Other Scripture

3-3-2 Job as Priest

3-3-3 Job and Israel

3-3-4 Job as Adam

3-3-5 Job as Cain

3-3-6 Job and the Jews

3-3-7 Job and Jesus

3-3-8 Paul and Job

4. Moses and Joshua

4-1-1 Moses Our Example

4-1-2 Moses and "the Reproach of Christ"

4-1-3 Moses and Paul

4.2 Moses: The Path of Growth

4-2-2 The Spiritual Growth of Moses

4-3-1 Themes of Moses in Deuteronomy

4-3-2 The Song of Moses

4-3-3 The Death of Moses

4-4 Moses as a Type of Christ

4-5 Moses Not Entering the Land

4-6 Moses in the Gospel of John

4-7 Moses and Amalek

4-8-1 God Manifestation in Moses

4-8-2 The Hand of God is Our Hand

4-9 Joshua: The Jagged Graph

4-9-2 Legalistic Obedience?

4-9-3 Peer Pressure

4-9-4 Joshua Our Example

4-10 Joshua: Potential Messiah?

4-11 Joshua and the Name of God

5. Samson

5-1 A Character Study of Samson

5.2 Samson And Deja Vu

5-2-2 Samson and Job

5-2-3 Samson and Gideon

5-2-4 Samson and Solomon

5-2-5 Samson and David

5-3 Samson's Marriage (Judges 14:1 - 15:8)

5-4 Samson at Lehi (Judges 15:9 - 20)

5-5 Samson in Gaza (Judges 16: 1-3)

5-6 Samson and Delilah (Judges 16:4-21)

5-7 The Death of Samson (Judges 16:23 - 30)

5-8 Samson a Type of Christ

6. David

6.1 David and Goliath

6-2-1 David and Jonathan

6-2-2 David's Lament Over Jonathan

6-2-3 Jonathan's Relationship with Saul

6-2-4 The Love of David for Jonathan

6-2-5 David and Michal

6-2-6 Jonathan and Christ

6-3-1 The Persecution of David as a Type of Christ

6-3-2 David and Saul

6.4 David And Bathsheba

6-4-2 Bathsheba: Saint Or Sinner?

6-4-3 David's Sin with Bathsheba

6-4-4 David's Repentance

6-5 A Character Study of David

7. Solomon

7-1 Solomon as a Type of Christ

7-2 Solomon and the Temple

7-3-1 Solomon's Wives

7-3-2 The Song of Solomon

7-3-4 Sin Never Satisfies

7-4-1 Parental Expectation

7-4-2 Solomon and David

7.5 Solomon: What Went Wrong?

7-5-2 Solomon's Attitude to the Kingdom

7-5-3 Solomon's Self-justification

7-5-4 Solomon's Attitude to Being King

7-5-5 Solomon and Pride

7-5-6 Solomon's Materialism and Self-fulfilment

7-5-7 Solomon and Wisdom

7-5-8 The Mind of Solomon

8. Jeroboam

8-1 The Character of Jeroboam

9. Elijah

9-1 Elijah's Strength: Elijah and Prayer

9.2 Elijah in Weakness

9-2-2 Playing God

9-2-3 Elijah and Others

9-2-4 Elijah and Moses

9-3 How God Worked with Elijah

9-4 Elijah and Angels

10. Daniel

10-1 The Character of Daniel

11. The Exiles who Returned

11-1 Ezekiel's Temple: Based Upon Solomon's Temple

11-2-1 Conditional Prophecy

11-2-2 Human Response

11-2-3 Tyre in Ezekiel 26

11-2-4 Delayed Prophecies

11-2-5 Prophecies with Changed Fulfillment

11-2-6 The Nature of Prophecy

11-3 Command More Than Prediction

11-4 The Contemporary Relevance of Ezekiel's Temple

11-5 The Restoration: Potential Kingdom of God

11-6 The Potential and the Reality

11-6-2 Isaiah's Prophecies of Restoration

11-6-3 Jeremiah's Restoration Prophecies

11-6-4 Ezekiel's Restoration Prophecies

11-6-5 The Cherubim and the Restoration

11-6-6 Zechariah's Restoration Prophecies

11-6-7 The Restoration Psalms

11.7 “The prince” in Ezekiel

11-7-2 Zerubabbel- Potential Messiah?

11-8 The Potential for the Surrounding World

11-8-2 Meshech and Tubal

11-8-3 Joel Chapter 3

11-9 Different Sequences of Prophetic Fulfillment

11-10 Hosea, Zechariah and Malachi: More Chances

11-11 The Returned Exiles

12. Jonah

12-1 Jonah: a Type of Christ

12-2 The Preaching of Jonah

12-3 Jonah and the the Gourd

12-4 Jonah and Nahum

13. Peter

13.1 Peter the Rock

13-1-2 Peter Our Example

13-1-3 Peter's Conversion

13-2-1 Peter and the Cross

13-2-2 Peter and Quo Vadis?

13-3-1 Peter’s Preaching

13-3-2 Peter and the Stone of Daniel 2

13-3-3 Peter's Realization of Sinfulness

13-3-4 Appreciation of Christ’s Exaltation

13-4-1 Peter the Shepherd

13-4-2 Peter and the Judaizers

13-4-3 The Letters of Peter

13-5-1 Peter and Christ

13-5-2 Peter and the Titles of Christ

13-6 Peter: Bible Student

13-7 Walking On Water

14. Paul

14-1 The Conversion of Paul / Saul

14-2-1 Paul and his Brethren

14-2-2 The Weakness of Paul

14-2-3 Paul: a Character Study

14-3 The Preaching of Paul

14-4 Saul Changed to Paul

14-5 Paul's Relationship with Jesus

14. 6 Paul And Christ (1)

14-6-2 Paul's Quotations from the Gospels: Statistics

14-6-3-1 Paul's Quotations from the Gospels: Analysis and Implications

14-6-3-2 Inspiration: the Human Factor

14-6-3-3 The Enigma of John's Gospel

14-6-3-4 The Nature of the Gospel Records

14-6-3-5 Memorizing Scripture

14-6-4 The Supremacy of Christ

14-7 Paul and Christ (2)

14-7-2 Paul and the Parables

14-7-3 Paul's Use of the Sermon On the Mount (Mt. 5 - 7)

14-7-4 Paul's Exposition of Gethsemane

14-7-5 Paul and the Characters in the Gospels

14-7-6 Paul in the Gospels

14-7-7 Paul and John the Baptist

14-7-8 Saul, Paul and Stephen

14-7-9 Following Elders

14-7-10 Connections Between the Gospels and Epistles: Observations

14-8 Paul's Heroes

14-8-2 Paul and King Saul: An anti-hero

14-9 Paul and Corinth

14-10 Paul and his Weak Brethren

14-11 Paul's Thorn in the Flesh

14-12 Paul's Shipwreck

14-13 Paul’s Self-perception

14-14 Paul, Philemon and Onesimus

14-15 Appendix: Chronology of Paul’s Life

15. The Disciples

15-1 Introduction: Jesus and the Disciples

15-2 The Training of the Twelve Disciples

15-3 The Weakness of the Twelve

15-4 The Disciples' Immaturity

15-5 The Disciples and Judaism

15-6 The Twelve Disciples as Children

15-7 The Disciples and Imputed Righteousness

15-8 The Preaching of the Twelve

15-9 The Spiritual Growth of the Disciples

15-10 Jesus and Judas

16. The Early Church

16.1 A Taste of the First Century: The Positive

16-1-2 The Early Church Our Example

16-1-3 Prayer Meetings

16-1-4 Christ-Centredness in the Early Church

16-1-5 Radical Preaching

16-1-6 Women in the Early Church

16-1-7 The Joy of Faith

16.2 A Taste of the First Century: The Negative

16-2-2 Dirty Politics in the Church

16-3-1 Unity and Division in the First Century Church

16-3-2 "Oikonomia" and Household Fellowships

16-3-3 Rich and Poor in the First Century

16-3-4 Unity in the Church

16-4-1 The Obstacles to the Growth of Christianity

16-4-2 The Offence of the Cross

16-4-3 The Rejection of Caesar

16-4-4 Women and Slaves in the First Century

16-4-5 The Roman Empire and Christianity

16-4-6 The Attraction of Judaism

16-4-7 Other First Century Objections to Christianity

16-5-1 Why Christianity Spread in the First Century

16-5-2 The Example of the Community

16-5-3 House Meetings in the First Century

16-5-4 Witness in the Workplace

16-5-5 The Witness of Christian Unity in the First Century

16-5-6 The Role of Women in the First Century

16-5-7 Style of Preaching in the First Century

16-5-8 Christian Ethics in the First Century

16-5-9 The Exclusivity of Christianity

16-5-10 Early Christian Doctrine

16-6 Where Things Went Wrong

16-6-2 The Rise of Traditions

16-6-3 Legalism in the Church

16-6-4 Social Tensions in the Church

16-6-5 Wealth in the Church

16-6-6 Worldliness in the Church

16-6-7 Lost Emphasis Upon Grace

16-6-8 Loss of Faith in the Church

16-6-9 Poor Church Leadership

16-6-10 Dogmatism and Legalism

17. Mary, Mother of Jesus

17-1 Mary: Our Representative

17-2-1 The Loneliness of Mary

17-2-2 The Spiritual Ambition of Mary

17-2-3 Hannah and Mary

17-2-4 A Bible Mind: Mary and the Magnificat

17-2-5 The Faith of Mary

17-2-6 Mary and the Virgin of Isaiah 7

17-2-7 The Humility of Mary

17-3-1 Mary’s Crisis of Faith

17-3-2 Mary and Jesus in the Temple

17-3-3 Mary at Cana

17-3-4 Mary and her Other Children

17-3-5 Mary in Mid-life Crisis

17-3-6 The Jesus-Mary Relationship

17-4 Mary’s Victory

17-4-2 The Influence of Mary

17-4-3 The Psychological Matrix of Jesus

18. Mary Magdalene

18-1 The Identity of Mary

18-2 The Primacy of Mary Magdalene

18-3. Mary: Pattern for Witness

18-4 The Jesus-Mary Magdalene Relationship

18-5 Mary Magdalene and the Cross

18-6 Mary Magdalene’s Understanding

18-7 Mary Magdalene and the Risen Jesus

19. Joanna

19 Joanna: a Character Study

20. The Real Christ

20-1 Images of Jesus

20-2 Abba, Father

20-3 The Self-proclamation of Jesus

20-4 Jesus a Palestinian Jew

20-5 Jesus and People

20-6 The Words of Jesus

20-7 The Poverty of Jesus

20-8 Finding Meaning in Everyday Experience

20-9 Jesus the Intellectual

20-10 The Naturalness of Jesus

20-11 Perceiving Others’ Needs

20-12 Jesus the Radical

20-13 Radical Demands of Jesus

20-14 Radical Language of Jesus

20-15 Radical Authority of Jesus

20-16 Radical Acceptance of Jesus

20-17 Jesus a Man Misunderstood

20-18 The Real Cross: Today is Friday

20-19 The Same Yesterday and Today

20-20 The 21st Century Jesus

20-21 How the Real Christ Was Lost

20-22 The Importance of the Humanity of Christ

20-23 The Divine Side of Jesus

20-24 Christ-Centredness

Appendix: The People of the Parables

Appendix 1: The People of the Parables

1-1 Elements of Unreality

1-3 The Sower Parable

1-4 The 11th Hour Worker

1-5 The Two Carpenters

1-6 The Fanatic Shepherd

1-7 Parables of Israel

1-8 The Call of the Gospel

1-9 The Parables of Judgment

1-10 Divine Delegation

1-11 Unanswered Questions in the Parables

2-1 The Parable of the Prodigal

2-2 Prodigal Israel

2-3 The Prodigal's Repentance: Baptism?

2-4 Killing the Fatted Calf

2-5 The Elder Brother

3-1 The Good Samaritan

Daily Bible Readings for April 17 1st Portion: Numbers 36 2nd Portion: Proverbs 27 3rd Portion: John 9-10 For an MP3 Exhortation/Bible Study on John 9-10 Click HERE Full list of MP3 exhortations HERE

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