Through the Bible, one life at a time – with author, pastor and Bible teacher Mike Beaumont.
Through the Bible, one life at a time – with author, pastor and Bible teacher Mike Beaumont.
• How do we know that Jesus actually existed?
• Why is the story of his life more than just a biography?
• What is it like to meet Jesus in person?
• Why didn’t he believe in Jesus to start with?
• What caused him to change his belief?
• Did he then pull rank as Jesus’ brother?
• What influence did his mother and grandmother have on his own faith?
• Why was he trusted with so much despite his young age?
• How significant was he for Paul, who’d been blinded by the light?
• How did he get his nickname?
• What did he see in people that others couldn’t see?
• How did he handle a major disagreement over the author of Mark’s gospel?
• How did a convinced persecutor of Christians become a history-shaping Christian himself?
• Why did his lengthy trips by land and sea change the world forever?
• What drove him to explain his transformed life with everyone he met?
• Why did he travel to an area where the people were despised?
• What was the surprising impact of his message, even on a magician?
• How did he explain some amazing news to a VIP on an old dusty road?
• Why did his qualifications help him to run the food bank?
• What did he actually say that led to his execution?
• How could he forgive those were stoning him to death?
• Why did this doctor choose to write such an accurate account of the life of Jesus?
• How did he also come to pen the Bible book of Acts?
• To what extent was he an important team player as the Church was first established?
• Why was Judas chosen to follow Jesus, knowing he would betray him?
• As he had a problem with money, why was he asked to look after the finances?
• What damage is caused by pre-meditated betrayal?
• Why was Herod the Great so paranoid?
• How did his descendants also pose a serious threat to Jesus and his followers?
• What can be learned from their bad example about good leadership?
• Why did he arrange a private night-time meeting with Jesus?
• What is the fundamental question that Jesus answers?
• What remarkable impact did Jesus have on Nicodemus?
• How did they respond to the miracle following the death of their brother?
• Why did others struggle with the sisters’ close friendship with Jesus?
• Was one really more spiritual than the other?
• What was the significance of the nickname Jesus gave him?
• Why does the number seven occur so many times in his gospel?
• What did he learn about not always getting things right?
• Does the Bible confirm her infamous reputation?
• Why did she provide financial support to Jesus and his disciples?
• How did she handle witnessing history’s most significant events?
• What part did Peter’s brother play in his total turnaround?
• To what extent did his habit of knee-jerk reactions shape Peter’s faith?
• How did this fisherman become a new kind of fisherman?
• Why is it surprising that Jesus chose Matthew to be one of his apprentices?
• For what reasons does it make sense that he came to write one of the gospels?
• How does this outsider discover why people like him need be outsiders no longer?
• What sets Gabriel apart from other angels in the Bible?
• Are there angels like Gabriel around today?
• Why does Gabriel appear in both the Old and New Testaments?
• Why is Mary’s response to the news that she’ll become a mother so remarkable?
• How did she handle the secrets she harboured about Jesus?
• How did Mary deal with the unanswered questions she lived with?
• What options did he have on discovering his wife-to-be was pregnant with a baby that wasn’t his?
• Does it matter that the Bible doesn’t record anything that Joseph ever said?
• What example was he both for Mary and Jesus?
• Why was he a voice for God after more than 400 years of heavenly silence?
• How did the strange circumstances surrounding his birth impact his life’s purpose?
• Why did John need to baptise even the world’s Saviour?