In today’s class, Dr. Kevin Burr discusses what we mean when we say “Scripture is authoritative.” Some people think we can easily determine which parts of Scripture are man’s and which parts are God’s, while others affirm a simplistic view of “The Bible says it, I believe it, that settles it.” The best position, instead, recognizes there is room for carefully nuancing how Scripture is authoritative for us today.

In today’s class, Dr. Kevin Burr discusses the nature of Scripture’s inspiration.

In today’s class, Dr. Kevin Burr walks us through some of the main considerations for the canonization of the books that would come to form the New Testament.

In today’s class, Dr. Kevin Burr takes us through a brief overview of what led to the canonization of the Old Testament.

In today’s class, Dr. Kevin Burr show us how the New Testament consistently points to individual Christians and the collective Church as the Temple of the Holy Spirit.

In today’s class, Dr. Kevin Burr discusses how ancient audiences would have understood the creation of the Garden of Eden as a temple for God to dwell (that is, “rest”). Eden would also have been viewed as a space from which God ruled the cosmos. What does this mean for humans, whom God created and gave authority to rule over in Genesis 1:27-28? And how does this relate to humans being created in God’s image and God forbidding humans to make idols?

In the opening lesson of our series “Exploring Our Strange Bible,” Dr. Kevin Burr walks us through the Christian way of reading Scripture: it is a unified story leading to Jesus. The Old Testament in Hebrew ends with 2 Chronicles, and the English Old Testament ends with Malachi. Both endings leave the reader feeling something is unfinished, incomplete, but there is a distinct sense of hope that God will act again decisively in the future. Christians affirm God’s final decisive action is in Jesus–and that is what the Bible points us to.

In the last meeting of our Faithbuilders class for Quarter 2, we look at the important practice of requesting forgiveness from Gary Chapman and Jennifer Thomas’s The Five Languages of Apology.

In today’s class we look at the fourth language of apology from Gary Chapman and Jennifer Thomas, Genuinely Repenting.

Today we look at the third language of apology from Gary Chapman and Jennifer Thomas’s The Five Languages of Apology, Making Restitution.