This is the story of the binding of Isaac (Aqedah). It’s a troubling text of an endangered child. Why would God purpose this?

What does your baptism mean to you? What is grace?

What is the importance of hospitality in this story? How do we understand the promises of God?

Have you ever doubted your faith? Did that doubt help or hinder your growth as a believer?

Dr. Keown shares the touching story of one of the women in scripture who bore the burden of barrenness. Hannah’s prayer. Be careful of pride and arrogance. The powerful may be brought low and the powerful exalted, the great reversal.

Dr. Keown shares the encouraging words that were written to the believers of the Early Church in their time of sacrifice and suffering for the faith. What does suffering have to do with who God is? 1 Peter is a letter of encouragement to a group of Gentiles rejected by their fami,it’s because of their faith.

Dr. Keown shares the distinction between the psalms of praise and psalms of thanksgiving. He compares the Exodus for the Hebrew people to our celebration of Easter. This Psalm has at least two types of psalms, praise and Thanksgiving, with an inference to a lament.

Mother’s Day lesson. Jesus offered this to his disciples as a reassurance of his promise, even though they didn’t understand yet that he was going away.

Dr. Gerald Keown shares insight into the New Testament church. This is a portrait of what the ideal church looks like. Even the early churches were not ideal.

The Gentile believers were sojourners. Even though they were not physically displaced, they were suffering from a displacement from a way of life, a life of worship of may gods. Society was trying to pull them back to that life.