The Open Word

Paul continues his case against the moral, educated person by showing that their innate sense of right and wrong speaks of a moral code to which they are responsible. Just knowing the code is not goo…

We continue Paul's indictment of the Moral person - the one who has a knowledge of God, right, and wrong and yet believes that someone makes them better than the pagan person with no knowledge of God…

We begin a new chapter in Romans in which Paul turns his attention away from men who have no special revelation of God to those who do have a knowledge of God and a knowledge of right and wrong. His …

In this session we end the first of Paul's three indictments of mankind, the indictment against the heathen who do not have the special revelation of God but do have the general revelation as found i…

Paul continues his discussion on the guilt of mankind by showing the downward moral trend when a society abandons God and exchanges Him for idols.

We continue a look at Paul's condemnation of those that do not have the special revelation of God even though the have His general revelation in nature, and as such are still responsible to God to li…

We begin a study of Paul's indictment of all mankind by examining the first group on the docket - the heathen who do not have the special revelation of God - only the general.

Perhaps two of the most important verses in Romans are the subject of our study in this session. These two verses, Romans 1:16-17, are the verses that Martin Luther struggled with until he understood…

In our study this week we look at Paul's revelation to the Roman church how often he longed to visit them - but was hindered. He indicates his desire to visit was not only to encourage the Roman beli…

We continue out study in the Book of Romans by looking at Paul's communication of his desire to come to visit the Roman church in order to have some ministry among them.

In our third session we continue looking at the introduction to the Book of Romans. In these three verses Paul addresses the recipients of this letter, the saints in Rome, reminding them of the calli…

We begin our verse by verse study of Romans by looking at the first four verses of Romans 1.

We begin an exegetical study of the Book of Romans. In this session we introduce the Book of Romans looking at its historical background and importance to the message of the New Testament.

We complete our study of Philippians by examining Philippians 4. Unfortunately, due to technical issues only the first part of this session is available.

We complete our look at Philippians 2 and 3 by focusing on Paul's view of his ministry.

We continue our look at the book of Philippians focusing on the ministry of Timothy and Epaphroditus in Philippians 2 as well as Paul's view of his ministry in Philippians 3.

In this session we examine the great Kenosis passage in Philippians 2:1-11. What does it mean that Christ "emptied himself?" Did He cease being God, or is something else going on?

In this session we begin our look at the Book of Philippians. We examine the background of the book, its historical setting, and Paul's history with one of the first churches he founded in Europe.

In our final session in the Book of Ephesians we take a look at our Spiritual Armor and the subject of spiritual warfare. There are a lot of bizarre teachings in regards to spiritual warfare, so it i…

In this session we take a look at Paul's instructions to the family. God has ordained the family to be a representation of the way in which Christ relates to the church. What are the principles that …