Author: John Gooch
John Gooch is a retired United Methodist clergy, having served churches in both rural and urban areas. He has taught and written about the Bible for forty years and confesses to a "lifelong love affair with the Word."
By John Gooch
How did Christians decide which books got into the New Testament? And what about all the ones that didn't? Should we care about them? Session 1 explains the process of deciding which books were considered essential and which were not. It also lists a...
By John Gooch
This study is a four- session introduction to the Gospel of Mark. The participants are encouraged to read the Gospel outside of the sessions. The materials probe questions raised by the Gospel and encourage participants not just to study the Gospel b...
By John Gooch
We really don't know much about Luke except what we can glean from the tradition. Ancient tradition says that he was one of Paul's followers, who is named in Philemon 24 as Paul's "fellow worker" and as "the beloved physician" in Colossians 4:14. The...