Colleen Ranusch

Travels with St.  Paul - 4 week program
1.  Intro, Paul before Conversion
2.  Paul's Conversion, First Missionary Trip
3.  Paul's Second and Third Missionary Trips
4.   Paul's Arrest, Death and Lasting Influence

St. Peter: Model of Discipleship - 4 week program
1.  Peter in Jesus' Early Ministry
2.  Peter and Jesus' Arrest, Death and Resurrection
3.  Peter in Acts of the Apostles
4.  Peter's Letters and Later Life
 
Advent Programs:
Infancy Account  According to  Luke  - 3  weeks
1. The Annunciation
2. The Birth of Jesus
3.  Jesus' Early Life

The Prophet Isaiah


John the Baptist: Preparing the Way for Jesus


King David

Five Week Lenten Program:
Passion and Death of Jesus in Luke
1.  Jesus Arrives in Jerusalem
2.  Jesus in Conflict with leaders
3.  Jesus'  Last Supper and Arrest
4.  Jesus' Passion and Death
5.  Jesus' Resurection

Mary in the Gospels


Deacon Paul Lippard

Four Week Advent Bible Study:
1) Overview of Advent
2) The Christmas Story
3) The Magi & The Shepherds
4) Joseph and Mary.

Six Week Lenten Bible Study:
1) Overview
2) Shroud if Turin
3) Passion Narrative from St. Mark
4) Passion from St. Matthew
5) Passion Narrative from St. Luke
6) Passion Narrative from St. John

The Parables of Jesus
1) Overview
2) Parables of Mark
3) Parables of Matthew
4) Parables of Luke

Three Week Course on the Early Church
1) Apostolic Age
2) The Early Church 120-220
3) The Church of the Third Century

Thirty Week Course on the New Testament
1) The Early Christians and Their Literature
2) The Greco-Roman World of Jesus
3) Ancient Judaism
4) The Earliest Traditions About Jesus
5) Mark—Jesus the Suffering Son of God
6) Matthew—Jesus the Jewish Messiah
7) Luke—Jesus the Savior of the World
8) John—Jesus the Man from Heaven
9) Non-Canonical Gospels
10) The Historical Jesus—Sources and Problems
11) The Historical Jesus—Solutions and Methods
12) Birth Narrative of Jesus from Luke
13) Birth Narrative of Jesus from Matthew
14) Jesus the Apocalyptic Prophet
15) The Acts of the Apostles
16) Paul—The Man, the Mission, and his Methods.
17) Paul and the Crises of His Churches—First Corinthians
18) Pauline Ethics
19) Paul’s Letter to the Romans
20) Paul, Jesus, and James
21) The Deutero-Pauline Epistles
22) The Pastoral Epistles
23) The Book of Hebrews and the Rise of Christian Anti-Semitism
24) First Peter and the Persecution of the Early Christians
25) The Book of Revelation
26) Mark’s Passion Narrative
27) Matthew’s Passion Narrative
28) Luke’s Passion Narrative
29) John’s Passion Narrative
30) Do We Have the Original New Testament?


A Biblical Study of the History of the Early Christianity

27 Sessions
1.The Birth of Christianity
2.The Religious World of Early Christianity
3.The Historical Jesus
4.Oral and Written Traditions about Jesus
5.The Apostle Paul
6.The Beginning of Jewish-Christian Relations
7.The Anti-Jewish Use of the Old Testament
8.The Rise of Christian Anti-Judaism
9.The Early Christian Mission
10.History of Christmas Celebrations
11.The Christianization of the Roman Empire
12.The Early Persecutions of the State
13.The Causes of Christian Persecution
14.Christian Reactions to Persecution
15.The Early Christian Apologists
16.The Diversity of Early Christian Communities
17.Christianities of the Second Century
18.The Role of Pseudepigrapha
19.The Victory of the Proto-Orthodox
20.The New Testament Canon
21.The Development of Church Offices
22.The Rise of Christian Liturgy
23.Historical Understanding of Palm Sunday
24.Historical Look at of the Passion, Death & Resurrection of Jesus
25.The Beginnings of Normative Theology
26.The Doctrine of the Trinity
27.Christianity and the Conquest of Empire


Bible Study - Characters Welcome
                - Fall Series -
1) The New Testament - Characters Welcome!
2) St. Peter
3) SS. John and James - the sons of Zebedee
4) Mary Magdalene
5) Martha, Mary and Lazarus
6) “Doubting” Thomas
7) Stephen
8) Philip

               - Advent Series -
9)   Elizabeth & Zachariah &  John the Baptist
10) The Virgin Mary
11) Joseph, The Magi & the Shepherds

             - Winter Series -
12)  Paul, the Hero of Acts
13)  Paul, the Evangelist
14)  The Syro-Phoenician Woman
15)  The Good Samaritan and the Prodigal Son
16)  The Samaritan Woman
17)  James
18)  Herod and the Herodians

               - Lenten Series -
19)  Pontius Pilate
20)  The Centurions / Roman Soldiers
21)  Pharisees and Sadducees
22)  Judas Iscariot
23)  Jesus of Nazareth
24)  The Christ of Faith