In Context is a weekly radio show broadcast each Monday evening and now brought to you as a podcast.
My name is Patrick, I’m one of life’s strugglers but I’ve come to find strength and hope in the person and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. He’s my teacher, and I’m learning to follow him throughout life’s journey.
I’ve been reading and Learning and studying and thinking about the Scriptures for more years than I can remember. And I've been greatly blessed with opportunities to teach others over the years, in all sorts of places and in all different kinds of circumstances.
This show has evolved over the months, and will likely continue to do so as I try to work out what works best – so I welcome all feedback from my listener! I've tried to see things in their historical and literary contexts, along with considering something of the missional matters to be drawn out of the text.
So come with me on a journey through the Scriptures, beginning with the writings of Luke.
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In Context is a weekly radio show broadcast each Monday evening and now brought to you as a podcast.
My name is Patrick, I’m one of life’s strugglers but I’ve come to find strength and hope in the person and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. He’s my teacher, and I’m learning to follow him throughout life’s journey.
I’ve been reading and Learning and studying and thinking about the Scriptures for more years than I can remember. And I've been greatly blessed with opportunities to teach others over the years, in all sorts of places and in all different kinds of circumstances.
This show has evolved over the months, and will likely continue to do so as I try to work out what works best – so I welcome all feedback from my listener! I've tried to see things in their historical and literary contexts, along with considering something of the missional matters to be drawn out of the text.
So come with me on a journey through the Scriptures, beginning with the writings of Luke.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Luke 1:5–25. The action begins! Luke is a master storyteller, he is a first-rate theologian – but he is also every bit as much an historian and sets his narrative within a framework of world events.
The initial action begins at the very heart of the city of Jerusalem – within the Holy Place of the temple itself. This is not insignificant. Beginning in Jerusalem, at the heart of the nation of Israel, Luke’s work eventually concludes in the city of Rome, at the heart of the Roman empire.
Luke will speak a great deal about the Holy Spirit, particularly in these opening chapters, and certainly throughout his second volume. He is certainly a very significant player in the mission of God.
Here was a decisive act of mission – an act of sending into the world – into the very heart of the temple in Jerusalem – a messenger from God to make known the first good news the nation had heard for many a century!
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