Saint Peter

In the New Testament, Junia, Pricilla, Phoebe, and Mary Magdalene were four females with leadership roles in the Jesus movement. These females were deaconesses, evangelists, educators, or preachers. The New Testament provides insight into the debate of female leadership and ordination during the early church movement; a debate that continues now. Certain Christian denominations today permit female ordination, while other denominations stand firm against female pastors; both use the New Testament…

Obeyed and Prayerfully Awaited God’s Promise  Title: Men and Women Obey Jesus and United in Prayer Await the Holy Spirit  1:15–17 Peter is speaking a speech. Title: A Speech in Prayer Scripture in a Speech: Not the 12 Anymore  Title: Praying, Speaking, and Scripture: Prophetic Position Not the 12 Anymore  1:18–22 Judas committed suicide in the Hakeldama field. Peter supposed that an opening was amongst the Apostles; thus, it was a biblical ordination to fulfill that opening. Title: The…

The Eucharist as a Sacrifice On the night before Jesus suffered on the cross, He shared one last meal with his disciples. It is during this meal that the sacrament of His Body and Blood was instituted. It is now commonly known as the sacrament of the Eucharist. He did this in order to preserve it throughout the ages and to entrust to the church a memorial of his sacrifice for us through death. It is a memorial in the sense that it makes present the sacrifice which Christ offered to God, on the…

INTRODUCTION Unfortunately, it is not entirely clear from Scripture why Paul wrote to the Ephesian Church back in 62 A.D. from behind the bars of a Roman prison. However, Acts 20:31 (READ THE TEXT) reveals Paul spent three years in Ephesus so he knew the Ephesians well, so one theory as to why Paul wrote Ephesians can be found in (TEXT) Eph. 6:21 in which Paul says, “so that you may also know how I am and what I am doing.” From the text, it can be concluded that Paul was simply letting the…

Judas Iscariot is the disciple who betrayed Jesus. He was a son to Simon Iscariot of Kerioth town. He was fond of stealing coins that had been collected from the community. The fact that Judas was one of the disciples proves that Jesus loves and treasures everybody. Jesus can allow people from all walks of life to become his disciples. Despite being a thief, Jesus allowed Judas to be the treasurer of the disciples. Jesus knew that Judas had an evil personality. Money had a great toll on Judas,…

Timothy is a messenger of Paul's doctrine. The books 1 Timothy and 2 Timothy are mostly concerned with presentation of correct doctrine. We see Paul's first direction to Timothy in 1 Tim 1: 4 "Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do." Therefore, that we can conclude that Timothy was a great student of Paul's teachings, but also he was clearly in need of Paul's continuing support to maintain correct…

Second Timothy is a book that Paul writes as a good bye letter to Timothy. In the book Paul is telling Timothy to carry on the ministry. He expresses this in Second Timothy four verse five, “As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.” Another main point Paul is trying to get across to Timothy, is to guard the treasure of the gospel. One place he puts that in the Bible is in second Timothy one verse fourteen, “By the Holy Spirit who…

What does it mean to be a disciple? According to Dictionary.com, a disciple is: a person who is a pupil or an adherent of the doctrines of another; follower So... when a Christians claims be a "disciple" of Jesus, what they are actually saying, in essence, is this: I am a person who is a pupil or an adherent of the doctrines of Jesus; a follower of Jesus. Does that mean that we spend our time learning about Jesus, talking about Jesus, retelling the parables he told, telling of the…

Introduction to the Book of Philippians Introduction Paul’s short epistle to the Philippians was in essence a thank you letter to a church in Philippi that he himself had established sometime during his second missionary journey (Acts 16:12). The tone of the epistle is apparent, Paul regards the Philippi church dear to his heart and it is also apparent that the church’s sentiments towards Paul are similar (Phil 1:7). The epistle is Paul’s response to the Philippi church where he takes the time…

During the apostle Paul imprisonment, he wrote a letter to the church, in the book of Colossians. The apostle Paul intent was for the people to live as best they could, the life that Jesus lived. These were the instructions that he gave to the church. Epaphras is believed to have founded the church (Col. 1:7). He communicated with Paul while he was in prison, letting Paul know a couple of things was taking place. Although some people were getting saved in the church there was still a lot…