The place where Jesus may have been born
Early tradition may have preserved the right site for Jesus’s birth in Bethlehem. When Hadrian desecrated holy sites in the early second century, some…
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Christianity is not a Western religion
The Christian movement started in Western Asia. The first non-Jewish convert was from Africa. In the second and third centuries, it was most dominant…
God’s love for you revealed in Ephesians 3
Paul was paying a hard price for his ministry to reach other people, but God’s love revealed in Christ left him no other option…
The traditional site of Samuel’s tomb
Jesus and the shepherds—Luke 2:1-14
The elite initially ignored him. God chose to reveal him to the nobodies of the day. Because God isn’t impressed with human status. He…
LIVING like we’re new in Christ—Ephesians 4:18—5:2
Paul elaborates what it means to live like we’re new in Christ, concluding that it means, not least, living like Christ (forgiving, loving …)
Ephesians 5:3-17: wisdom, light, and behavior
Part of a series of videos about Ephesians
Reading Craig Keener
PNEUMA 39 (2017) 126–145 Reading Craig Keener OnSpirit Hermeneutics: Reading Scripture in Light of Pentecost L. William Oliverio, Jr.* The School of Urban Missions,…
Ephesians 1:1-14
Ephesians shows us God’s boundless love for us in Christ. This study covers the opening, long paragraph of Paul’s letter.
God saved us in Christ—Ephesians 2:1-10
The Apostle Paul elaborates on what God, acting in love for us, has done for us in Christ. We often recognize neither the desperation…
Not outsiders anymore!—Ephesians 2:11-22
Ephesians explains how Christ has shattered all barriers of history and ethnicity that could keep us from God—and one another.
Collegiate Day of Prayer
The outpouring of the Spirit at Asbury’s campus that started on Feb. 8, 2023, was humanly unplanned, but God’s timing seems beyond coincidence. On…