What is theology and why should we study it? What if I told you that theology is relevant to everyone? Listen to this episode to find out more! This is the first class in a five week Christian education class called Theo 100, an introduction to Christian Theology. In this episode we talk about what theology is, why it’s relevant to you, and what the sources for theology are. Link to lesson PowerPoint Click here to view all the lesson […]

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Are the Bibles we have today the same as the ones that were written long ago? Can we rely on those texts to be what they say they are? This is the second class in a five week Christian education class called Theo 100, an introduction to Christian Theology. In this episode we talk about how the Christian Bible came together, how the books of the Bible were chosen, and whether the copies we have today are reliable. Link to […]

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Protestants know that Roman Catholics have a section in their bibles called “The Apocrypha.” What is that and what are Christians to make of it? Pastor Tim LeCroy discusses the different kinds of texts that are commonly included under the term Apocrypha and discusses from history how the Church has thought about these texts. Outline I. Athanasius’s Easter Letter of 367 lays out how we are to think of the Apocryphya II. The four categories of the Apocrypha 1. Deuterocanonical […]

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