New Testament Overview Videos This is a gift from BibleRoads – a New Testament overview video in about thirty minutes, free. We hope many will take advantage of watching it, tell your friends, use it in Sunday School with your iPad or laptop, start a BibleRoads study program with it providing helpful background, etc. The goal […]
The Prayer of Perception
I love hearing people who normally never talk about God or religion suddenly say we all need to pray right now about this virus. How refreshing! How different from times when everything seems like smooth sailing, and people put awareness of God a bit on the shelf. But when there is an emergency, millions […]
How the Bible speaks to fears about the coronavirus
What does the Bible say? I wanted to share some thoughts from Genesis 18 about Biblical views of hospitality that are related to news of this virus. I would love your feed back, and to know what Biblical texts have been inspirational to YOU during these days. Just post a comment on my […]
Christmas Talk – English and Spanish
Welcoming Christ this Christmas: Biblical Role Models Whether it is Christmas or any other day of the year, the New Testament teaches us much about how we might make greater room for the Christ in our thought and lives. This talk covers three points: what we mean by “Christ”, the role of prophesy in the Hebrew […]
The Huge 2-part Role of a Tiny Biblical Word
There’s a reason the adage ‘good things come in small packages’ got coined. It’s true! The tiny three-letter conjunction, ‘but’, in the Scriptures is a powerful example. Who knew that it has two profoundly different applications? One looks back while the other looks forward. How we use it determines much about how we view our […]
The Unfolding Views of God (from Genesis)
By Madelon Maupin on February 12, 2020 in Monthly Vlogs, Old Testament, Pentateuch/Torah, Patriarchs, Videos, Bible Study
This ten-minute video discusses how the idea of God in Genesis evolves. “Yahweh”, first introduced in Genesis 2 as a rather anthropomorphic version of God, is also the God of Isa. 43 who offers such consolation and hope to Israel during the Babylonian Exile. Does your idea of God evolve? We discuss two of the […]