Tag: Bible study

• Reflecting on Mark 5 1-13, 18-20

  

  What ARE the main themes for us in the story told in Mark 5:1-20? …

  HAT

  March 22, 2023

  Text of the Week – Questions

  Bible study, discipleship, liberation, Mark 5:1-13, Mark 5:1-20, reading the Bible, thinking about the Bible

• Studying Mark 5 1-13, 18-20

  

  Mark’s version of this story is different in some ways …

  HAT

  March 22, 2023

  Text of the Week – Notes

  Bible study, exegesis, Gerasene, Jesus, Mark 5:1-20, Mark 5:1-8, reading the Bible, texts that aren't in the lectionary

• Studying John 4 (7-15, 28-30, 39-41)

  

  a few additional notes on the text

  HAT

  March 14, 2023

  Text of the Week – Notes

  Bible study, Jesus, John 4:1-42, John 4:28-30, John 4:39-41, John 4:7-15, reading the Bible

• Studying Matthew 18 1-9

  

  The greatest in the kingdom of the heavens is like a little child, which means … ?

  HAT

  March 7, 2023

  Text of the Week – Notes, Thinking Out Loud

  Bible study, exegesis, Jesus Christ, Matthew 18:1-9, reading the Bible

• Reflecting on Luke 15 11-24

  

  Does the younger son strike us as repentant? Does that matter to us?

  HAT

  March 1, 2023

  Text of the Week – Questions

  Bible study, images of God, Luke 15:11-24, reading the Bible, theology, thinking about the Bible

• Studying Luke 15 11-24

  

  we’ve studied this text before, but we’re still not to the end of it …

  HAT

  February 28, 2023

  Text of the Week – Notes

  Bible, Bible study, exegesis, God, love, Luke 15:11-24, prodigal son, reading the Bible

• Reflecting on 1 Peter 2 1-10

  

  What do we think it means, concretely, to be a “spiritual house,” or a “holy, royal priesthood”?

  HAT

  February 22, 2023

  Text of the Week – Questions

  Bible study, Christian ideas and practices, Christian identity, reading the Bible, thinking about the Bible

• Studying 1 Peter 2 1-10

  

  There is A LOT of Hebrew Bible in this letter, the purpose of which may be to get the audience to reimagine their identity in Jesus Christ …

  HAT

  February 21, 2023

  Text of the Week – Notes

  1 Peter 2:1-10, against anti-Judaism, Bible study, exegesis, Hebrew Bible, history of interpretation, reading the Bible

• Reflecting on James 2 1-12

  

  What exactly is James telling us to do … ?

  HAT

  February 15, 2023

  Text of the Week – Questions

  Bible study, Christian ethics, Christian ideas and practices, James 2:1-12, reading the Bible, thinking about the Bible

• Studying James 2 1-12

  

  James gives a practical example of what it means to “judge not that ye be not judged” …

  HAT

  February 14, 2023

  Text of the Week – Notes

  Bible study, Christian ethics, diversity and inclusion, James 2:1-12, justice, reading the Bible, wisdom literature

• Reflecting on 2 Timothy 1 3-14

  

  How do these remarks addressed to Timothy seem to speak to us? …

  HAT

  February 8, 2023

  Text of the Week – Questions

  2 Timothy 1:3-14, Bible study, Christianity, exegesis, reading the Bible, thinking about the Bible

• Studying 2 Timothy 1 3-14

  

  notes on 2 Timothy 1:3-14 … what’s memorable … and not to be ashamed of …

  HAT

  February 7, 2023

  Text of the Week – Notes

  2 Timothy 1:3-14, Bible study, exegesis, God, Jesus Christ, reading the Bible, tradition

• Reflecting on 1 Corinthians 1 18-31

  

  What difference does it make how we think about things? …

  HAT

  February 1, 2023

  Text of the Week – Questions

  1 Corinthians 1:18-31, Bible study, Christian ideas and practices, personal responsibility, reading the Bible, thinking about the Bible

• Studying 1 Corinthians 1 18-31

  

  notes on 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 & Christian “revaluation of values” …

  HAT

  January 31, 2023

  Text of the Week – Notes

  1 Corinthians 1:18-25, 1 Corinthians 1:18-31, Bible study, Christian ideas and practices, Jesus Christ, reading the Bible