‘The Lost Message of Paul’ – a synopsis
Chalke, Steve. The Lost Message of Paul (2019). SPCK. Kindle Edition. Although ...
Apostolic concerns – sermon notes
1 Timothy 6:3-21 Parents can love their children too much – or so they are ...
Beginning and continuing with Christ – sermon notes
Text: Colossians 1:1-14 Paul's letter to the Colossians is an absolute treasure. ...
Discussion Starters, Acts 9:1-19a
(a) Many of us tend to view our own conversion to Christ in contrast to Paul’s: ...
Discussion starters, Paul’s epistles
Ephesians 2:1-10; 3:14-21; Philippians 2:1-18; 2 Timothy 2:1-13; [...]
Erastus of Corinth
'During the eighteen months he was in Corinth (Acts 18:11) Paul evidently converted ...
Keep faithful to the word – sermon notes
Text: 2 Timothy 4:1-8 Here we have some of the very last words spoken or written ...
Life in the Spirit – sermon notes
Romans 8:1-17 Where do we start with Romans 8? It’s a sumptuous banquet ...
Paul and the empty tomb
There are those (including some Muslim scholars) who like to drive a wedge ...
Paul and the historical Jesus
‘The lack of reference to the historical Jesus [in Paul's writings] has often ...
Paul the villain
Preaching recently in Curaçao, Diocese of Venezuela, The Most Rev. [...] ...
Paul’s view of the Cross
By God's marvelous grace Paul had come to view [the] cross as: a. The Mirror, ...
Pauline descriptions of hell
Douglas Moo observes that in most English versions, the word 'hell' is not ...
Prayers of St Paul
I've been reading and studying Paul's great prayer in Colossians 1:1-14. ...
Radical faith – sermon notes
Text: Romans 4 There is much concern about ‘radical’ religion these days. ...
Rom 7:24 – Who is the ‘wretched man’?
Paul describes, in vv15-24, a high level of emotional turmoil. But who is ...
Romans 11:26a – ‘And so all Israel will be saved’
Background and context “And so all Israel will be saved” – Romans 11:26a ...
Steve Chalke on the neuropsychology of ‘sin’
One of the strangest chapters in Steve Chalke's The Lost Message of Paul is ...
The gospel is the story of Jesus
Many Christians feel a tension between the teaching of Jesus in the Gospels ...
Why didn’t Paul quote Jesus more often?
Readers of Paul's letters have often wondered why he didn't quote Jesus' teaching, ...
Why preachers cannot ignore the New Perspective on Paul
To talk of a ‘New Perspective on Paul’ (NPP) is to imply that there is ...