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At church a few weeks ago, my husband took note of how our pastor, Nate Shurden, thanked God for the book of Philemon, calling it “this postcard epistle in the corpus of the canon.” It’s a little book that can get lost between the giants on either side, yet it has a powerful message.

Philemon also creates a challenge for Bible teachers in a time when, as a culture and as the body of Christ, we are dealing—perhaps like never before—with the lingering shame of chattel slavery in the United States. We want Paul not to just regulate slavery, but to call for it to be abolished. And yet he doesn’t.

In this episode of Help Me Teach the Bible, Nate Shurden, pastor of Cornerstone Presbyterian Church in Franklin, Tennessee, helps us deal with inevitable questions about slavery that might arise when we teach Philemon, as well as other books in the Bible. He also capably demonstrates numerous ways we can get to the all-important gospel from this “postcard epistle.”

 

Is there enough evidence for us to believe the Gospels?

In an age of faith deconstruction and skepticism about the Bible’s authority, it’s common to hear claims that the Gospels are unreliable propaganda. And if the Gospels are shown to be historically unreliable, the whole foundation of Christianity begins to crumble.
But the Gospels are historically reliable. And the evidence for this is vast.
To learn about the evidence for the historical reliability of the four Gospels, click below to access a FREE eBook of Can We Trust the Gospels? written by New Testament scholar Peter J. Williams.

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