NEXT BIBLE STUDY on Exodus 33 - April 13, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Overhead 1: Text-for-Exodus-33-April-2025.pdf
SHOWCASE: Children's Genesis Study - 2022 and 2023
SHOWCASE: Adult Genesis Study - 2021 & 2022
Class #11: St. Paul defends both his apostolic office and the gospel message which he had preached to the Galatians. The message of the gospel is that man is saved by grace through faith alone apart from works. The ultimate proof that salvation is apart from any merit or worthiness in man is the Scriptural […]
Class #10: The false judaizing prophets, who were troubling the Galatians, had denied St. Paul’s apostolic call and perverted the Gospel. St. Paul’s response was to defend his call and to intricately connect it with the true Gospel message. St. Paul was called immediately by Jesus (not by or through men) and the Gospel of […]
Class #9: The work of a faithful pastor over many years can be ruined by a heretic so quickly. Though we should rightly be concerned about falling into the gross outward sins(Jude 4) of immorality, there is a sneakier way in which we can fall away from the true Gospel. In Galatians, the Judaizers are […]
Class #8: St. Paul makes a distinction between the Galatians and the false teachers. In attempting to restore (6:1) the people of the congregations, he is gentle even while he reveals their error. However, when St. Paul speaks about the false teachers(1:9, 5:10, 5:12), he is rough and even condemning of those who are troubling […]
Class #7 : The beginning(1:1-5) of St. Paul’s letter to the Galatians is a preview of his entire epistle. He brings up his apostolic call, the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Gospel message promising the blessings of the atonement, and the Father’s will that we believe the Gospel message. Overheads: Galatians Overheads Class 7 […]
Class #6 : The beginning of a letter includes the writer, the recipient, and words of greeting. In Galatians, St. Paul gives a lengthy defense of his apostolic call, a bare bones description of the recipients, and an extended greeting/blessing. In this class, we learn about (1) the resurrection as short hand for the gospel, (2) […]
Class #5 : The divine call (see podcast parts 3 and 4) places a man into the office of the ministry. The Lutheran Confessions refer to the office of the ministry in Augsburg Confession, Article 5. Article 5 is not a generic functional view of the Gospel and the sacraments, but a concrete reference to […]
Class #4: A call is not determined to be divine because of some inner emotional experience or heartfelt desire of the person. The call is divine because it comes from God–either directly (immediately from God as it did in the case of prophets and apostles, including St. Paul), or indirectly (mediately from God, by means […]
Class #3: In Galatians 1:1, St. Paul is holding up his divine apostolic call, saying, “Paul, an apostle (not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father…).” In order to better understand the reason that St. Paul would magnify his call, we are taking an excursus through the Scriptural doctrine […]
Class #2: St. Paul’s greeting to the Galatians begins with (1) an abrupt defense of his divine apostolic call, followed by (2) a bare bones reference to the recipients, and (3) an extended blessing. The origin of St. Paul’s apostleship is not from (apo) men, meaning that the source of his call is human and […]