Articles

Acts 6; 7 Outline 6:1-6 | Seven men chosen to manage food distribution 6:7 | Summary of growth of the church 6:8-15 | Stephen performs miracles and refutes arguments; accused of blasphemy 7:1 | The high priest asks for explanation of Stephen 7:2-53 | Stephen’s Sermon v2-8, Abraham’s faith v9-16, Joseph and patriarchs in Egypt v17-29, Moses’ first 40 years in Egypt v30-34, God’s appears to ...

Acts 3; 4; 5 Outline 3:1-10 | Peter and John heal a lame beggar 3:11-16 | Peter’s second sermon: How the man was healed in Jesus’ name 3:17-26 | Peter’s second sermon: God’s plan fulfilled in Jesus, beginning with the Jews 4:1-4 | Summary of the progress of the church (5,000 men) and the arrest of Peter and John 4:5-12 | Peter ...

Acts 2 Outline 1-4 | Filling of the Holy Spirit 5-13 | Disciples preach in other languages known to the listeners 14-36 | Peter preaches 37-42 | 3000 baptized; the church begins 43-47 | Life in the early church Reflections How many times in your life did you promise to do something for or send something to another but fell short of your promise ...

Hebrews 3-4 Outline 3:1-6 | The Rest Available to the Believer 3:7-11 | God tested by the Jews in the wilderness 3:12-16 | Our Compassionate High Priest 4:1-13 | Don’t come up short! 4:14-16 | Turn to Jesus, our High Priest, with confidence Reflections There is much that could be written about Jesus as our High Priest who not only makes intercession for ...

Jeremiah 24 Outline 1-3 | Parable of the Good and Rotten Figs 4-7 | Good Figs: the exiles in Babylon 8-10 | Rotten Figs: those left behind Reflections God has used parables throughout time to express His planned actions and to teach concepts to His people.  From Abraham offering up Isaac to the teachings of Jesus and after Him through the ...

Song of Solomon 5 Outline 1 | Bridegroom: Solomon responds to his brides invitation to come to her 2-8 | Bride: A dream of separation from her bridegroom 9 | Chorus: Response to the brides request 10-16 | Bride: Her description of her bridegroom Reflections The first half of this chapter describes the anguish both the Bridegroom and the Bride have over ...

Psalms 90 Outline 1-2 | God’s eternal existence and Creator nature 3-6 | God exists outside of time 7-12 | Man’s life is short compared to God’s eternal nature 13-17 | A prayer for God’s continued lovingkindness Reflections If we were to setup a string representing the ~6,000 years that the world has been in existence1, and then placed a mark on ...

II Samuel 10 Outline 1-5 | David tries to console Hanun, the son of the king of Ammon but is rebuffed 6-8 | Ammon gathers allies against David: Arameans, king of Maacah, and men of Tob 9-14 | David’s generals, Joab & Abishai, defeat them 15-19 | The Arameans attack and are defeated again Reflections How often have we tried to do ...

Exodus 40 Outline 1-16 | The Tabernacle is to be erected and Aaron and his sons are consecrated as priests 17-33 | The Consecration Service at the beginning of the 2nd year after the exodus 34-38 | The Glory of the Lord fills the Tabernacle as a cloud by day and the fire by night Reflections As noted previously, there are three basic phases ...

Acts 1 Outline 1-5 | Luke’s introduction; Jesus’ instructions to stay in Jerusalem 6-8 | Jesus commissions the disciples 9-11 | Jesus ascends into heaven 12-14 | Disciples gather in the Upper Room 15-26 | Judas’ replacement chosen: Matthias qualification: with the disciples from Jesus’ baptism by John until the resurrection Reflections The book of Acts is a continuation of the account by Luke, ...