Bible Study Lessons
E. Stanley Jones (1884-1973) was an American Methodist missionary to India. In 1925 he published a groundbreaking book titled The Christ of the Indian Road. Since many missionaries came to India from the West, Jesus was associated with the white man and the Western world. But Jones argued that this was unhealthy because Jesus was … Read more
Why did Jesus wrap a towel around his waist and wash his disciples’ feet? Why did he make “himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant” (Phil. 2:7)? Here’s what he says in John 5: “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he … Read more
Dreams are strange. They leave a deep impression, make us question reality, then disappear. Certain thinkers, such as Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, delved deeply into the meaning of dreams in their psychological analyses. Freud believed that dream content came from the events of the previous day and childhood and he especially highlighted latent sexual … Read more
Two thousand years ago on the day of Pentecost something remarkable happened. A group of believers, including the apostles, were “all together in one place” when Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues … Read more
Bible readers have debated the meaning of “the image of God” for the past two millennia. At a minimum this phrase means the following: First, we are replicas of God, and therefore, we represent God on Earth. Ancient rulers made statues of themselves “in their image and likeness.” In a sense, God made a statue … Read more