Bible Studies
Bible Studies occur at the following times:
Wednesdays at 9.30 a.m and 7 p.m.
Every second Friday at 10.00 a.m. (Ladies group).
STUDIES ON THE BOOK OF NEHEMIAH
Nehemiah, while a cupbearer in the court of the Persian king Artaxerxes I, heard that the walls around Jerusalem had been broken down. The king of Persia allowed
Nehemiah to journey to Jerusalem in 445 B.C., and serve as governor. The walls
were rebuilt (Neh.1-6), and true worship was restored (Neh.8-10), the city was
repopulated and there were celebrations at the dedication of the wall (Neh.11-12), and later the renewal itself was renewed (Neh.13)....Read More
STUDIES ON THE BOOK OF MATTHEW
The scholarly consensus now - which may not be worth much - is that Mark was the first Gospel written, and that Matthew abridged it but then added his own material to make it longer. The so-called Griesbach Hypothesis is that Mark used Matthew i.e. Matthew came first.
Matthew is the tax collector in 9:9-13, who is called Levi in Mark 2:13-17. It was by no means unusual for a person to have two names e.g. Simon Peter, John Mark. By the second century, Matthew had become the Church's favourite Gospel......Read More
STUDIES ON THE BOOK OF JOB
The problem of how one God can exist who is sovereign, good, and loving has long been recognised as one of the most difficult ones for the Christian faith to explain...The relationship between God, the suffering of the righteous and the prosperity of the wicked is an issue which is often raised in Scripture..... Read More
STUDIES ON THE EPISTLE OF JAMES
The epistle of James is not dated. Some date it fairly late, and see it as a correction of those who misunderstood Paul's emphasis on free grace to be a denial of the need for works. But Paul raises this issue in a number of places e.g. in Galatians 5-6 (probably his earliest epistle) and in Romans 6. Others date the epistle quite early. Any date given is only a guess.....Read More
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