by Jeffrey Kranz | May 8, 2018 | Bible Books
Revelation: behold, He is coming quickly What is Revelation about? John is an exile on the isle of Patmos. His crime: bearing witness of Jesus (Re 1:9). Somebody didn’t want John spreading this gospel message, and so they’d shipped him off to an island. He’s...
by Jeffrey Kranz | May 7, 2018 | Bible Books
2 Peter: Remember the Truth What is 2 Peter about? The second epistle of Peter is a brief letter of reminders for first-century Christians. Peter urges his readers to make every effort to grow in their faith, to remember that the promises of God (spoken by the...
by Jeffrey Kranz | Aug 13, 2017 | Bible Books
You’ve heard that the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness for 40 years, right? The book of Numbers tells that story. Numbers follows Moses and Israel’s journey from the foot of Mount Sinai (which is where Leviticus ends) to the edge of the...
by Jeffrey Kranz | Feb 20, 2017 | Bible Books
What is Nehemiah about? After 70 years in exile, the Jews had returned home and rebuilt the temple in Jerusalem. They were able to worship God in their own land, but the city still lay in ruins. The once-great capital of the promised land was a depressing rubble heap...
by Jeffrey Kranz | Feb 13, 2017 | Bible Books
The world just won’t let up. The Christians in Thessalonica was under fire from all directions. The unbelievers outside were still persecuting them. The unbelievers of the city had come after Paul when he first founded the church in this city (Acts...
by Jeffrey Kranz | Dec 20, 2016 | Bible Books, Bible facts
David and Goliath. David and Jonathan. The book of 1 Samuel is full of Bible stories about David, especially the ones that we tell kids in Sunday school. But there’s a lot more to this book of the Bible than the stuff of VeggieTales. My friends at CPH just released an...