by Susan Barnes | 27 Jul 2022 | Communion Talks
Christians sometimes say they would like to be a New Testament church but I suspect they have a romanticized idea of what the early church was really like. Let’s consider these verses which reveal some of the conflicts in the early church: Acts 6:1 – Widows were being...
by Susan Barnes | 24 Sep 2019 | Reading the Bible
Today, I am continuing the series on, Reading the Bible. This post is about the historical evidence for biblical events. For some of the historical events recorded in the Bible, there is archaeological evidence, others not so much. For example, there is evidence of a...
by Susan Barnes | 8 Jul 2013 | Book Reviews
Who is this man? is a well researched and wide ranging look at the effect that Jesus’ followers have had on the world over the last 2,000 years. I found it much heavier going that John Ortberg’s other books. This was due to the content being largely historical. Some...