| The Fullness of Time for the Foundation |
How God engineered history to prepare the world for the coming of his Son, Jesus Christ. |
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| The Fire Is Ignited |
The growth of the early Church as recorded by the inspired historian Luke in Acts. |
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| Key Individuals and Church Fathers |
More key individuals in the early Church (continued from previous lesson), as well as the beginnings of Roman persecution of Christians. |
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| The Second Century |
The growing Roman persecution of Christians in the second century and a look at some key Church Fathers. |
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| Continued Look at Church Fathers |
Further discussion on key Church Fathers. |
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| Locating the Church Fathers |
A helpful chart placing some key Church Fathers in their historical context. |
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| The Councils of Constantinople I, Ephesus, and Chalcedon |
The important ecumenical church councils of the fourth and fifth centuries that codified the doctrines of the deity and humanity of Christ and the full deity of the Holy Spirit. |
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| How We Got the Bible (Part I) |
A look at the inspiration, compilation, and canonization of the Scriptures. Includes the Old Testament canon and a discussion of the Apocrypha and Pseudiepigrapha. |
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| How We Got the Bible (Part II) |
A look at the development of the New Testament Canon. |
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| History of the English Bible |
A look at how the English versions of the Bible were translated, produced, and passed down to us today. |
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| Middle Age Muddle |
The thousand years known as the Middle Ages posed some great difficulties for the Church, but God remained faithful. |
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| Pre-Reformation Rumblings |
The foundation of major changes was being laid in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, paving the way for the Protestant Reformation. |
