When we considered the Covenant of Law given through Moses, we detected a major problem that we have with God’s law: we cannot keep it. In light of this fact, in Jeremiah 31:31-34, God announced a New Covenant that would transform our relationship to the law by providing what we all need – complete forgiveness for all our sins.
Paul’s time in Athens provides an example of how to present Jesus and the resurrection to a cultured non-Christian audience.
Two parables directed against the religious leaders indicated why they would lose their management of the kingdom, and why others would take their place.
Through a series of mistakes by the disciples, Jesus taught them and us what following him is not.
