Malachi Overview and Outline

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Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. AUTHOR: Malachi DATE: 450-400 B.C. We know nothing about the prophet Malachi.  There is no historical record of him, nor is any genealogy given.  We do know that his name means “my messenger” and he...

Matthew Overview and Outline

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Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. AUTHOR: Matthew DATE: Uncertain; circa 50-70 AD Matthew, surnamed Levi (Mark 2:14), worked for the Roman government (Matt. 9:9) as a Jewish tax-gatherer (publican). Tax collectors were despised by Jews because of...

Mark Overview and Outline

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Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. AUTHOR: Mark  DATE: 50-60s AD John Mark was the son of Mary, a wealthy and prominent woman in Jerusalem (Acts 12:12). Barnabas was Mark’s cousin (Col. 4:10). Peter was a close friend (1 Peter 5:13) and...

Luke Overview and Outline

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Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. AUTHOR: Luke DATE: 60 AD Luke, referred to as the “beloved physician” (Col. 4:14), was a close friend and companion of Paul.  He is the only Gentile author in the New Testament.  We know nothing about...

John Overview and Outline

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Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. [Scroll Down For Video] AUTHOR: John DATE: 85-90 AD The writer of this gospel is identified only as “the disciple whom Jesus loved” (21:20, 24). By reasoning, it is determined to be John the youngest of...

Acts Overview and Outline

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Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. AUTHOR: LukeDATE: 61 ADLuke, known as “the beloved physician” (Col 4:14; 2 Tim 4:11; Philemon 24) is clearly connected with his earlier work, as author of a “former treatise” (1:1), the Book...

Romans Overview and Outline

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Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. AUTHOR: Paul DATE: 57-58 A.D. The letter to the Church at Rome is the most doctrinally clear and complete of all Paul’s letters. In His letter, Paul first diagnoses who man is without Christ.  He then tells...

1 Corinthians Overview and Outline

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Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. AUTHOR: Paul DATE: 55 A.D. Corinth was a port city, a wealthy commercial center, located on the narrow isthmus between the Aegean and Adriatic Seas.  The city’s outdoor theater could host 20,000 people and...

2 Corinthians Overview and Outline

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Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. AUTHOR: Paul DATE: 56 A.D. Since the problems Paul adressed in his letter to the Corinthians (1 Corinthians) were not corrected (2 Cor. 2:1; 12:14; 13:1-2), he fel it necessary to go there in person.  Following his...

Galatians Overview and Outline

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Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. AUTHOR: Paul DATE: circa 49-55 AD Key Message: Liberty in Christ When this letter was written, the term “Galatia” was used in both a geographical and a political sense. Used geographically, it referred...

Ephesians Overview and Outline

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Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. AUTHOR: Paul DATE: 61 A.D. Key Message: Identity in Christ Ephesians delivers the key message of identity in Christ.  In the first three chapters, Paul clearly tells of the riches of Christ and God’s purpose...

Philippians Overview and Outline

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Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. AUTHOR: Paul DATE: 61 AD Key Message: Joy in Christ The church at Philippi was the first church established by Paul in Europe (Acts 16) and he established this church on his second missionary journey.  Philippi was...

Colossians Overview and Outline

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Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. AUTHOR: Paul DATE: 61-62 AD Key Message: The Supremacy of Christ Colosse was a Roman city of Asia Minor located about 100 miles east of Ephesus and near Laodicea and Hierapolis (4:13). It had been a prosperous...

1 Thessalonians Overview and Outline

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Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. AUTHOR: Paul DATE: 51 AD On his second missionary journey (Acts 17:1-14), Paul went to the Macedonian port city of Thessalonica taking with him Silas and Timothy. This was the second place the gospel was preached...

2 Thessalonians Overview and Outline

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Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. AUTHOR: Paul DATE: 51 AD Not long after his first letter to the church at Thessalonica, Paul sent another.  This one addressed a new situation. Somehow there had been misunderstanding, or misrepresentation (2:2),...

1 Timothy Overview and Outline

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Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ.  AUTHOR: Paul DATE: 63-66 A.D. The two letters Paul wrote to Timothy and the one he wrote to Titus are called the pastoral epistles.  They contain principles for the pastoral care of God’s people,...

2 Timothy Overview and Outline

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Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. AUTHOR: Paul DATE: 67 or 68 AD Paul had put Timothy in charge at Ephesus and gone to Macedonia (northern Greece) and from there had written 1 Timothy (1 Tim. 1:3). He then visited Crete and put Titus in charge of...

Titus Overview and Outline

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Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. AUTHOR: Paul DATE: 63-66 AD When Paul left Crete to go to Nicopolis in Achaia (southern Greece, Titus 3:12), he put Titus in charge of the churches at Crete.  Either from Macedonia or Nicopolis, he wrote this...

Philemon Overview and Outline

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Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. AUTHOR: Paul DATE: 61 AD Philemon is another Prison Epistles (like Ephesians, Philippians, and Colossians).  It was written during Paul’s first imprisonment in Rome. Paul writes to Philemon out of concern for...

Hebrews Overview and Outline

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Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. AUTHOR: Uncertain DATE: 64-68 AD There are many suggestions about who the author of Hebrews might have been: Paul, Barnabas, Apollos, Silas, Aquila, and Priscilla, or Clement of Rome. Only God knows for certain who...