LENTEN SOUP SUPPERS & STUDY: “And Him Crucified”
WEDNESDAYS beginning February 21 – March 20 | 6 – 7:30 PM
Schedule: Soup Supper 6-6:40 PM | Study 6:45-7:30 PM
Join us in the dining room each Wednesday evening as we enjoy a soup supper and then dive into the Bible together with our guest speaker Rev. Dr. Steven Tuell.
Kids will have their own breakout session after supper called “Building a Neighborhood.”
We are asking for volunteers to provide soup and fruit each Wednesday. Please let us know if you are going to attend in-person (each week) so that we can be prepared with enough food. Sign-up using the links above.
“AND HIM CRUCIFIED”
Week 1: Mark: The Son of Man Must Suffer
Week 2: Matthew: To FulFill What Was Written
Week 3: Luke: Into Thy Hands I Commit My Spirit
Week 4: John: It Is Finished
Week 5: Paul: Crucified With Christ
What does it mean that the Lord of the universe, the long-expected Messiah, died a horrible death on a cross? This question is never shied from in the New Testament. However, this problem is faced—and resolved—in a variety of ways. In this study, we will consider five different New Testament ways of understanding Jesus’ suffering and death.
First, we will see how each of the four Gospel writers express the identity of Jesus as linked inexorably to his cross. Then, we will consider the ways that Paul came to terms with the scandal of the cross, concluding, as he says to the church at Corinth, “I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified” (1 Cor 2:1).
Rev. Dr. Steven Tuell
A LITTLE BIT ABOUT DR. STEVEN TUELL
Rev. Dr. Steven S. Tuell is the James A. Kelso Professor emeritus of Hebrew and Old Testament at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. After studying at West Virginia Wesleyan College and Princeton Theological Seminary, he earned his doctorate in Hebrew Bible at Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, and taught at Erskine College, SC (1989-1992), Randolph-Macon College, VA (1992- 2005), and Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, PA (2005-2021). An ordained elder in the United Methodist Church, Tuell has pastored churches in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, West Virginia, and Virginia.
In retirement, he continues to preach and teach Scripture in a variety of settings. Tuell has written numerous books and articles on the Hebrew Bible, and with his co-authors Stephen Cook and John Strong recently completed The Prophets: Introducing Israel’s Prophetic Literature with Fortress Press (2022). His book Creation in Scripture for Westminster John Knox will be published soon; his current work in progress is a commentary on Proverbs. Tuell blogs as “The Bible Guy” at www.steventuell.net. He and his wife Wendy have three adult sons.
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