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2025-02-21

  588 1 Corinthians in Context 5: Sexual Immorality

Do you know what blows my mind? That with all the permissiveness and sinfulness of the Roman world, what the Corinthian Christians were doing shocked Paul. He said that the sexual immorality of one man among them was so bad that such was not even found...
  Sean P Finnegan author
2025-02-13

  587 1 Corinthians in Context 4: Philosophy & Wisdom

Paul wrote extensively about worldly wisdom in 1 Corinthians. Due to the prevalence and esteem of philosophical schools, Paul probably felt a need to explain how Christianity measured up. In this lecture we’ll survey the five main philosophical options...
  Sean P Finnegan author
2025-02-06

  586 1 Corinthians in Context 3: Factions & Status at Corinth

Now that we’ve familiarized ourselves with the city of Corinth and Paul’s missionary activity there, we’re ready to dive into 1 Corinthians. As I mentioned previously, my strategy for this class is to focus on the major themes rather than covering ever...
  Sean P Finnegan author
2025-01-30

  585 1 Corinthians in Context 2: Paul Founds the Church at Corinth

How did Christianity come to Corinth in the first place? Although many times we are left speculating about how an ancient church got started, we have definitive knowledge about the Corinthian church from Luke, Paul’s traveling companion. In what follow...
  Sean P Finnegan author
2025-01-23

  584 1 Corinthians in Context 1: Corinth as the Context

Today we’re beginning something new. I’ve been working on this class on 1 Corinthians for months and months. I had taken classes on 1 Corinthians at Boston University twice. The first time we just read through the entire epistle in Greek. The second ti...
  Sean P Finnegan author
2025-01-16

  583 Not Alone Anymore (Vaughn Madsen)

As we left things last time, Vaughn Madsen of New Zealand had been on a quest for biblical truth that resulted in repeated rejection from churches and Bible studies. Apart from his kids, Vaughn was alone. He met a couple of random people in street evan...
  Sean P Finnegan author
2025-01-10

  582 Kiwi Farmer Pursues Biblical Truth (Vaughn Madsen)

Vaughn Madsen was a simple kiwi farmer who subscribed to evangelical Christianity in New Zealand. No, he wasn’t farming kiwis. A kiwi is what you call someone from New Zealand. Anyhow, like I said, he was a devout member of his local church when he cam...
  Sean P Finnegan author
2025-01-03

  581 Stand Strong in the Lord (Jerry Wierwille)

Happy New Year everyone! Have you started to think about what you want to change in this coming year? Today we’re going to listen to a powerful message by Dr. Jerry Wierwille about standing strong in the Lord. The world is always pressing on us, squeez...
  Sean P Finnegan author
2024-12-27

  580 An Honest Evaluation of the Evidence for the Deity of Christ (Sean Finnegan)

Does the New Testament refer to Jesus as God? Though this is an important question, it’s only a starting point for wrestling with who Jesus is. In what follows we’ll consider the evidence from five scholars on what texts they say attribute deity to Chr...
  Sean P Finnegan author
2024-12-20

  579 Christologies in the 2nd and 3rd Centuries (Dale Tuggy)

Have you heard of Hippolytus’s Refutation of All Heresies? Written not long after 222 A.D. this book works through dozens of heresies–beliefs that the author disagreed with. Some scholars have argued against Hippolytus as the author, preferring to call...
  Sean P Finnegan author