1. The Abraham family
1-1
The Abraham Family
1-2-1
Terah And Abram
1-2-2
The Call Of Abram
1-3-1
Moments Of Faith
1-3-2
" Even as Sarah..."
1-4
Joseph As A Type Of Christ
2. Jacob
2-1
Jacob Our Example
2-2 The Human Side Of Jacob
2-2-1
Jacob And Idolatry
2-2-2
Jacob, Rachel And Leah
2-2-3
The Weakness Of Jacob
2-3 Jacob And God
2-3-1
Jacob's Name Change
2-3-2
The Humility Of Jacob
2-3-3
Jacob's Perception Of God
2-3-4
The Love Of God For Jacob
2-3-5
Jacob And The God Of His Father: Christians And Parental
Expectation
2-4 Jacob And The Promises
2-4-1
Jacob And The Promises
2-4-2
Jacob And Jesus
2-4-3
Jacob's Blessings Of His Sons
2-5
Jacob's Wrestling With God
2-6
Jacob And Imputed Righteousness
3. Job
3-1 Job: A Pattern Of Growth
3-1-1
Themes In Job
3-1-2
The Names Of God In Job
3-1-2-1
Job's Spiritual Growth
3-1-3
Allusions To Job In The New Testament
3-1-4
Job And David
3-1-5
Job And Christ
3-2 The Conversion Of Job
3-2-1
The Conversion Of Job
3-2-3
The Role Of Elihu In Job
3-3 Job In Other Scripture
3-3-1
Job In Other Scripture
3-3-2
Job As Priest
3-3-3
Job And Israel
3-3-4
Job as Adam
3-3-5
Job As Cain
3-3-6
Job And The Jews
3-3-7
Job and Jesus
3-3-8
Paul and Job
4. Moses and Joshua
4-1 Moses And Us
4-1-1
Moses Our Example
4-1-2
Moses And " The reproach of Christ"
4-1-3
Moses And Paul
4-2 Moses: The Path Of Growth
4-2-1
Events In The Life Of Moses
4-2-2
The Spiritual Growth Of Moses
4-3 The Death Of Moses
4-3-1
Themes Of Moses In Deuteronomy
4-3-2
The Song Of Moses
4-3-3
The Death Of Moses
4-4
Moses As A Type Of Christ
4-5
Moses Not Entering The Land
4-6
Moses In The Gospel Of John
4-7
Moses And Amalek
4-8-1
God Manifestation In Moses
4-8-2
The Hand Of God
4-9 Joshua: The Jagged Graph
4-9-1
Events In The Life Of Joshua
4-9-2
Legalistic Obedience?
4-9-3
Peer Pressure
4-9-4
Joshua Our Example
4-10
Joshua: Potential Messiah?
4-11
Joshua And The Name of God
4-12 Rahab And
The Fall Of Jericho
5. Samson
5-1
A Character Study Of Samson
5-2 Samson And Deja Vu
5-2-1
Repetition In Biblical Narratives
5-2-2
Samson And Job
5-2-3
Samson And Gideon
5-2-4
Samson And Solomon
5-2-5
Samson And David
5-3
Samson's Marriage (Judges 14:1 - 15:8)
5-4
Samson At Lehi (Judges 15:9 - 20)
5-5
Samson In Gaza (Judges 16: 1-3)
5-6
Samson And Delilah (Judges 16:4-21)
5-7
The Death Of Samson (Judges 16:23 - 30)
5-8
Samson A Type Of Christ
6. David
6.1
David And Goliath
6-2 David And Jonathan
6-2-1
David And Jonathan
6-2-2
David's Lament Over Jonathan
6-2-3
Jonathan's Relationship With Saul
6-2-4
The Love Of David For Jonathan
6-2-5
David And Michal
6-2-6
Jonathan And Christ
6-3 David And Saul
6-3-1
The Persecution Of David As A Type Of Christ
6-3-2
David And Saul
6-4 David And Bathsheba
6-4-1
David Our Example
6-4-2
Bathsheba: Saint or Sinner?
6-4-3
David's Sin With Bathsheba
6-4-4
David's Repentance
6-5
A Character Study Of David
7. Solomon
7-1
Solomon As A Type Of Christ
7-2
Solomon And The Temple
7-3 Solomon And Women
7-3-1
Solomon's Wives
7-3-2
The Song Of Solomon
7-3-3
Psalm 45
7-3-4
Sin Never Satisfies
7-4 Solomon And David
7-4-1
Parental Expectation
7-4-2
Solomon And David
7-5 Solomon: What Went Wrong?
7-5-1
Solomon's Apostacy
7-5-2
Solomon's Attitude To The Kingdom
7-5-3
Solomon's Self-Justification
7-5-4
Solomon's Attitude To Being King
7-5-5
Solomon And Pride
7-5-6
Solomon's Materialism And Self-fulfilment
7-5-7 Solomon And Wisdom
7-5-8
The Mind Of Solomon
8. Jeroboam, hezekiah, isaiah
8-1
The Character Of Jeroboam
8-2 Hezekiah: Faith And Weakness
8-3 The Ministry And Personal Life of Isaiah
9. Elijah
9-1
Elijah's Strength: Elijah And Prayer
9-2 Elijah In Weakness
9-2-1
Fire From Heaven
9-2-2
Playing God
9-2-3
Elijah And Others
9-2-4
Elijah And Moses
9-3
How God Worked With Elijah
9-4
Elijah And Angels
10. Daniel
10-1
The Character Of Daniel
11. The exiles who returned
11-1
Ezekiel’s Temple: Based Upon Solomon’s Temple
11-2 The Nature Of Prophecy
11-2-1
Conditional Prophecy
11-2-2
Human Response
11-2-3
Tyre in Ezekiel 26
11-2-4
Delayed Prophecies
11-2-5
Prophecies With Changed Fulfillment
11-2-6
The Nature Of Prophecy
11-3
Command More Than Prediction
11-4
The Contemporary Relevance Of Ezekiel's Temple
11-5
The Restoration: Potential Kingdom Of God
11-6 The Potential And The Reality
11-6-1
The Weakness Of Judah Under Nehemiah
11-6-1-1
The Weakness Of Esther
11-6-2
Isaiah's Prophecies Of Restoration
11-6-2-1
The Unity Of Isaiah
11-6-2-2
Cyrus As A Potential Messiah In Isaiah's Prophecies
11-6-3
Jeremiah's Restoration Prophecies
11-6-4
Ezekiel's Restoration Prophecies
11-6-5
The Cherubim And The Restoration
11-6-6
Zechariah's Restoration Prophecies
11-6-7
The Restoration Psalms
11.7 “The prince" in Ezekiel
11-7-1
" The prince" : Potential Messiah
11-7-2
Zerubabbel- Potential Messiah?
11.8 The Potential For The Surrounding
World
11-8-1
Haggai 2
11-8-2
Meshech And Tubal
11-8-3
Joel Chapter 3
11-9
Different Sequences Of Prophetic Fulfillment
11-10
Zechariah And Malachi: More Chances
11-11
The Returned Exiles
12. Jonah
12-1
Jonah: A Type Of Christ
12-2
The Preaching Of Jonah
12-3
Jonah And The The Gourd
12-4
Jonah and Nahum
13. Peter
13.1
Peter’s Conversion
13-1-1
Peter The Rock
13-1-2
Peter Our Example
13-1-3
Peter's Coversion
13-2-1
Peter And The Cross
13-2-2
Peter And Quo Vadis?
13.3 Peter’s Preaching
13-3-1
Peter’s Preaching
13-3-2
Peter And The Stone Of Daniel 2
13-3-3
Peter's Realization Of Sinfulness
13-3-4
Appreciation Of Christ’s Exaltation
13.4 Peter The Shepherd
13-4-1
Peter The Shepherd
13-4-2
Peter And The Judaizers
13-4-3
The Letters Of Peter
13-5-1
Peter And Christ
13-5-2
Peter And The Titles Of Christ
13-6
Peter: Bible Student
13-7
Walking On Water
14. Paul
14-1
The Conversion Of Paul / Saul
14-2-1
Paul And His Brethren
14-2-2
The Weakness Of Paul
14-2-3
Paul: A Character Study
14-3
The Preaching Of Paul
14-4
Saul Changed To Paul
14-5
Paul's Relationship With Jesus
14-6 Paul And Christ (1)
14-6-1
Paul's Use Of The Gospels
14-6-2
Paul's Quotations From The Gospels: Statistics
14-6-3-1
Paul's Quotations From The Gospels: Analysis And Implications
14-6-3-2
Inspiration: The Human Factor
14-6-3-3
The Enigma Of John's Gospel
14-6-3-4
The Nature Of The Gospel Records
14-6-3-5
Memorizing Scripture
14-6-4
The Supremacy Of Christ
14-7 Paul And Christ (2)
14-7-1
Paul's Use Of The Gospels: Further Observations
14-7-2
Paul And The Parables
14-7-3
Paul's Use Of The Sermon On The Mount (Mt. 5 - 7)
14-7-4
Paul's Exposition Of Gethsemane
14-7-5
Paul And The Characters In The Gospels
14-7-6
Paul In The Gospels
14-7-7
Paul And John The Baptist
14-7-8
Saul, Paul And Stephen
14-7-9
Following Elders
14-7-10
Connections Between The Gospels And Epistles: Observations
14-8 Paul's Heroes
14-8-1
Paul And Moses
14-8-2
Paul And King Saul
14-9
Paul and Corinth
14-10
Paul And His Weak Brethren
14-11
Paul's Thorn In The Flesh
14-12
Paul's Shipwreck
14-13
Paul’s Self-Perception
14-14
Paul, Philemon and Onesimus
14-15
Chronology of Paul’s Life
15. The disciples
15-1
Introduction: Jesus And The Disciples
15-2
The Training Of The Twelve Disciples
15-3
The Weakness Of The Twelve
15-4
The Disciples' Immaturity
15-5
The Disciples And Judaism
15-6
The Twelve Disciples As Children
15-7
The Disciples And Imputed Righteousness
15-8
The Preaching of The Twelve
15-9
The Spiritual Growth of the Disciples
15-10
Jesus and Judas
15-11John The
Baptist
16. The early church
16-1 A Taste Of The First Century:
The Positive
16-1-1
" With one accord"
16-1-2
The Early Church Our Example
16-1-3
Prayer Meetings
16-1-4
Christ-centredness
16-1-5
Radical Preaching
16-1-6
Women In The Early Church
16-1-7
The Joy Of Faith
16-2 A Taste Of The First Century:
The Negative
16-2-1
Division In The Church
16-2-2
Politics In The Church
16-3 Unity And Division In The First
Century
16-3-1
Unity And Division In The First Century Church
16-3-2
Oikonomia And Household Fellowships
16-3-3
Rich And Poor In The First Century
16-3-4
Unity In The Church
16-3-5 The
First Century Mediterranean Understanding Of Society
16-4 The Obstacles
16-4-1
The Obstacles To The Growth Of Christianity
16-4-2
The offence of the cross
16-4-3
The rejection of Caesar
16-4-4
Women And Slaves In The First Century
16-4-5
The Roman Empire And Christianity
16-4-6
The Attraction Of Judaism
16-4-7
Other First Century Objections To Christianity
16-5 How They Succeeded
16-5-1
Why Christianity Spread In The First Century
16-5-2
The Example Of The Community
16-5-3
House Meetings In The First Century
16-5-4
Witness In The Workplace
16-5-5
The Witness Of Christian Unity In The First Century
16-5-6
The Role Of Women In The First Century
16-5-7
Style Of PreachingIn The First Century
16-5-8
Christian Ethics In The First Century
16-5-9
The Exclusivity Of Christianity
16-5-9-1
The Openness Of Early Christianity
16-5-10
Early Christian Doctrine
16-6 Where Things Went Wrong
16-6-1
Doctrinal Apostacy
16-6-2
The Rise Of Traditions
16-6-3
Legalism In The Church
16-6-4
Social Tensions In The Church
16-6-5
Wealth In The Church
16-6-6
Worldliness In The Church
16-6-7
Lost Emphasis Upon Grace
16-6-8
Loss Of Faith In The Church
16-6-9
Poor Church Leadership
16-6-10
Dogmatism And Legalism
17. Mary, mother of Jesus
17-1
Mary: Our Representative
17-2 Mary’s Character
17-2-1
The Loneliness Of Mary
17-2-2
The Spiritual Ambition Of Mary
17-2-3
Hannah And Mary
17-2-4
A Bible Mind: Mary And The Magnificat
17-2-5
The Faith Of Mary
17-2-6
Mary And The Virgin Of Isaiah 7
17-2-7
The Humility Of Mary
17-3 Mary In Crisis
17-3-1
Mary’s Crisis Of Faith
17-3-2
Mary And Jesus In The Temple
17-3-3
Mary At Cana
17-3-4
Mary And Her Other Children
17-3-5
Mary In Mid-Life Crisis
17-3-6
The Jesus-Mary Relationship
17-4 Mary’s Victory
17-4-1
Mary At The Cross
17-4-2
The Influence Of Mary
17-4-3
The Psychological Matrix Of Jesus
18. Mary Magdalene
18-1
The Identity Of Mary
18-2
The Primacy Of Mary Magdalene
18-3.
Mary: Pattern For Witness
18-4
The Jesus-Mary Magdalene Relationship
18-5
Mary Magdalene And The Cross
18-6
Mary Magdalene’s Understanding
18-7 Mary Magdalene And The Risen
Jesus: The
Chronology Of The Resurrection Of Christ
19. Joanna
19
Joanna: A Character Study
20. The Real Christ
20-1
Images Of Jesus
20-2
Abba, Father
20-3
The Self-Proclamation Of Jesus
20-4
Jesus A Palestinian Jew
20-5
Jesus And People
20-6
The Words Of Jesus
20-7
The Poverty Of Jesus
20-8
Finding Meaning In Everyday Experience
20-9
Jesus The Intellectual
20-10
The Naturalness Of Jesus
20-11
Perceiving Others’ Needs
20-12
Jesus The Radical
20-13
Radical Demands Of Jesus
20-14
Radical Language Of Jesus
20-15
Radical Authority Of Jesus
20-16
Radical Acceptance Of Jesus
20-17
Jesus A Man Misunderstood
20-18
The Real Cross: Today Is Friday
20-19
The Same Yesterday And Today
20-20
The 21st Century Jesus
20-21
How The Real Christ Was Lost
20-22
The Humanity Of Christ
20-23
The Divine Side Of Jesus
20-24
Christ-centredness
Appendix: The People Of The Parables
Introduction: Interpreting
The Parables
1-1
Elements Of Unreality
1-2
End Stress
1-3
The Sower Parable
1-4
The 11th Hour Worker
1-5
The Two Carpenters
1-6
The Fanatic Shepherd
1-7
Parables of Israel
1-8
The Call Of The Gospel
1-9
The Parables Of Judgment
1-10
Divine Delegation
1-11
Unanswered Questions In The Parables
2-1
The Parable Of The Prodigal
2-2
Prodigal Israel
2-3
The Prodigal's Repentance
2-4
Killing The Fatted Calf
2-5
The Elder Brother
3-1
The Good Samaritan
4 The Parable
Of The Sower
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