The First Epistle to the Corinthians – Introduction
A letter in which church discipline, the role of women, and the question of idolatry are discussed: Is this an interesting document? Is it only…
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The Prophet Nahum – Introduction
Nahum announces judgment on Nineveh. This godless city would be conquered and destroyed. About 150 years earlier, it had been spared God’s judgment because it…
The Epistle to the Philippians – Introduction
The Assembly in Philippi As Paul traveled through the Galatian countryside with Silas on his second missionary journey to consolidate the assemblies in Asia Minor,…
The Prophet Micah – Introduction
Micah’s language is artistic yet clear and easy to understand. We do not have to be linguistic artists to be able to pass on God’s…
The Prophet Amos – Introduction
The Messenger: The prophet Amos came from the small town of Tekoa, a few kilometers southeast of Bethlehem. He raised cattle and farmed there (1:1,…
The Prophet Jeremiah – Introduction
Jeremiah lived in a “dark” time: the time of the fall of the Jewish empire. Ten tribes had long since been captured and deported by…
The Prophet Hosea – Introduction
The messenger From Chapter 1:1, we can see that Hosea worked as a prophet for several decades. His contemporaries included Isaiah, Micah, and Amos.…
The Prophet Habbakuk – Introduction
The messenger and the message The book of the prophet Habakkuk has a very personal character. He does not bring messages directly to the people,…
The Book of Psalms – Introduction
“The Book of Psalms” [1] – “Medicine chest”, hymnal, or more? Many of us like to read the Book of Psalms again and again because…
The Prophet Zechariah – Introduction
 The two prophets Haggai and Zechariah were active at the same time. In terms of content, their messages overlap to some extent, but their…
The Prophet Jonah – Introduction
The prophet Obadiah shows Edom’s gloating over Israel’s defeat. Jonah, on the other hand, speaks of the displeasure of an Israelite at the merciful sparing…
The Prophet Malachi – Introduction
The messenger and the message Malachi lived and worked at a time when some of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin (the “remnant”) that God…
The Prophet Haggai – Introduction
 The minor prophets worked in the divided kingdom of Israel, mainly in the two-tribe kingdom of Judah but also partly in the ten-tribe kingdom…
Study Guide for the 12 Minor Prophets
What can we learn from the brooding prophet Habakkuk? What do the “mysterious” visions of Zechariah mean? Does a man like Obadiah have a message…
The Book of Acts – Introduction
A continuation The Acts of the Apostles is the continuation of a report that the evangelist Luke addressed to Theophilus. You could also say that…
The Epistle of Jude – Introduction
 The letter of Jude is one of the shortest and, at the same time, one of the most serious and weighty letters in the…
The Prophet Haggai – Introduction
Introduction The message of the prophet Haggai is more than 2500 years old. And yet, it goes straight to the heart. It is topical and…
The Gospel of John – Introduction
The Gospel of John was probably written many years after the other three Gospels – Matthew, Mark, and Luke. In fact, it occupies a…
The Gospel of Luke – Introduction
The Gospel of Luke presents the Lord Jesus to us as the true and perfect man. But it also shows us the grace that He…
The Gospel of Mark – Introduction
“The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God … Now in the morning, having risen a long while before daylight,…