A collection of materials for climate justice.

As we continue to watch the Church evolve, there is a new disagreement brewing: should the gentile Christians submit to the Torah and be circumcised?

The 20 spiritual gifts are those listed within the Pauline epistles to Rome, Ephesus, and Corinth (Romans 12, Ephesians 4, 1 Corinthians 12–13), and recognized by the first-century church. While all of life is a gift from God, these twenty gifts are lifted up within Scripture as the gifts of the Spirit, given specifically for the upbuilding of the body of Christ.

Isaiah was a man who served God. He received his calling in the temple where he had a vision of God. Upon the sight of God’s glory, Isaiah not only realized how majestic and perfect God is, but he also was faced with his own imperfection.

Jerusalem has fallen, the Babylonians have broken into the city, set fire to the temple, and drove the citizens to exile.

Elijah the prophet spread God’s message that it was not going to rain. God led Elijah to a brook where he could find water to drink. God also sent ravens with bread and meat. When the brook dried up, God sent Elijah to a widow in a town called Zarephath. Elijah told her to use her limited resources to make him a small cake. God then kept filling her jars of flour and oil until the drought ended.

David wants to build a temple to house the Ark of the Covenant. But God has other plans. What God wants is to build David a “house”—a royal dynasty.

Hannah, who is childless, pours her heart out to God, weeping because she does not have a child. God heard Hannah’s prayer and answered her request for a son, and she named the boy Samuel.

The Israelites grow impatient with Moses’ leadership and with the wilderness and decide to create an idol to worship that looks a lot like the pagan idols so commonplace at the time. The Israelites make sacrifices before their new idol, a golden calf, and bow down before it in worship, claiming that this “god” was the one to bring them out of Egypt.

After years of living as slaves, God called Moses to lead the Israelites out of Egypt. God gave Moses instructions for the people to follow. This included eating a special meal and painting lamb’s blood around the doorway. At night, the firstborn of the Egyptian families died, but death passed over the homes of the Israelites.

Joseph’s brothers were jealous because their father, Jacob, loved Joseph the most. Joseph’s brothers hated him so much that they decided to kill him. But instead the brothers sold Joseph to some traders, who took him to Egypt to be a slave.

The Lord calls Abram (later renamed Abraham) to travel to a new land. The Lord promises Abram that from him would come a great nation, and that the land that they inhabit would belong to them.

After God made the earth and the heavens, God formed the first humans. These humans, Adam and Eve, were called by God to care for the garden of Eden. God gave them permission to eat any of the fruit that grew there, with one exception.