Bible Study

Organized around the general theme of parables, this is a six-session short-term study series. Each chapter focuses on a particular parable, and features the author telling readers what Jesus was saying through the parable, both to listeners of his day and to us in our own lives.

The result of over thirty years of research and lecturing, Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes is a ground-breaking study of Paul's first epistle to the Corinthians. Bailey examines this canonical letter through the lenses of Paul's Jewish socio-cultural and rhetorical background and the Mediterranean context of the Corinthian recipients.

The Bible can be hazardous to ones health if it is read with faulty expectations. Writing with insight, compassion, and wit, Russell Pregeant shows that reading the Bible without interpretation is impossible; the right question is which assumptions are most appropriate to the Bible and our reasons for taking it up.

This is a specially commissioned series of state-of-the-art studies on the most important aspects of Revelation and its significance for the 21st century. The studies are on: strategies of interpretation; the nature of the violent imagery; and passages of particular interest.

Acts has a vital message about the spread of the Gospel to teach to every generation. David will give you confidence to handle God s Word in a variety of contexts.

Jesus intended to call together 'followers of the Way' and today's Christian communities can live up to that by keeping Jesus' message at the centre of their life. This commentary explores Matthew's perspective of that message, using the Matthean passages that the Church recommends for proclamation.