Verse by Verse
Verse by Verse Teachings offers in-depth, live Bible studies every Sunday morning. Shawn McCraney unpacks scripture with historical, linguistic, and cultural context, helping individuals understand the Bible from the perspective of Subjective Christianity and fulfilled theology.
Acts 17:26-28 Bible Teaching
Paul uses the "unknown God" altar in Athens to introduce God, emphasizing unity from a common ancestor, cultural diversity by design, and seeking God personally.
Acts 17:18-25 Bible Teaching
Paul engages with Epicureans and Stoics in Athens, clarifying misconceptions about Jesus and the resurrection. He introduces the "unknown God" as the true creator, emphasizing spiritual maturity, God's omnipotence, and the need for sincere worship beyond physical temples.
Revelation 2:19-29 Bible Teaching
The Thyatira church is praised for love and progress but criticized for tolerating Jezebel's false teachings. Jezebel symbolizes idolatry and immorality, leading to spiritual downfall. Jesus warns against idolatry, promising judgment and rewards based on deeds. Believers must remain faithful, avoiding corrupt influences, to receive divine rewards.
Revelation 2:12-17 Bible Teaching
Shawn's teaching on Revelation 2:12-18 highlights Jesus' message to Pergamos, focusing on the sharp two-edged sword as His Word, the threat of corruption, and the need for repentance.
Acts 17:16-18 Bible Teaching
Shawn's teaching contrasts Christian and Greek idolatry, highlights Paul's debates in Athens, and provides a historical overview of Western philosophers and their contributions.
Revelation 2:8-11 Part 2 Bible Teaching
Shawn's teaching on Revelation 2:8-11 emphasizes enduring faith through trials, promising a "crown of life." Smyrna symbolizes persecution, urging believers to remain steadfast.
Acts 17:4-16 Bible Teaching
Shawn's teaching covers the mixed reception of the Gospel in Thessalonica, translation errors in scripture, the Bereans' open-mindedness, and contrasts between worldly and spiritual values.
Acts 16:35 – 17:1-8 Bible Teaching
Paul and Silas freed from prison; jailer converted by faith. Paul asserts Roman rights for justice, balancing faith and legal standing. Confession aids healing. Jesus fulfills prophecies.
Revelation 2:8-11 Part 1 Bible Teaching
Shawn's teaching highlights Smyrna's early Christian significance, Polycarp's role, spiritual wealth over material, and faith's triumph over persecution, emphasizing eternal life.
Acts 16:26-34 Bible Teaching
Paul and Silas' faith led to a miraculous prison release, inspiring a jailer's conversion. Shawn's teaching emphasizes self-denial, community support, and hospitality.
Revelation 2:1-7 Part 5 and Rev. 2:8-11 Bible Teaching
Shawn's teaching emphasizes the narrow path to eternal life, selflessness, spiritual growth, and transcending earthly comforts, focusing on Christ's example and teachings.
Acts 16:16-25 Bible Teaching
A spirit-possessed maiden's prophecy profits her masters until Paul expels the spirit, causing financial loss and his imprisonment. The teaching highlights liberation, faith, and praising God amid adversity.
Revelation 2:1-7 Part 5 Bible Teaching
Shawn's teaching emphasizes Jesus' promises to Sardis and Philadelphia believers, focusing on eternal life, spiritual identity, and overcoming challenges for heavenly rewards.
Revelation 2:1-7 Part 4 Bible Teaching
Jesus' promises to the Seven Churches focus on spiritual authority, overcoming challenges, and divine inheritance. Shawn suggests some prophecies are fulfilled, like Jerusalem's judgment in 70 AD. White garments symbolize purity, and the Book of Life's role in judgment is debated. The teaching explores resurrection, eternal life, and the intersection of free will and predestination. Christ's triumph over death is questioned, pondering if it includes the "second death."
Acts 15:23-41 Bible Teaching
The teaching summary emphasizes the early church's decision against requiring circumcision for Gentiles, the importance of context in scripture interpretation, reliance on spiritual guidance over institutional authority, the evolving role of prophecy, and the need for reconciliation and forgiveness in conflicts.
Revelation 2:1-7 Part 3 Bible Teaching
Jesus' message to the seven churches in Revelation emphasizes listening to the Spirit, offering blessings for overcoming challenges, like access to the tree of life and protection from the second death. The tree symbolizes eternal life, wisdom, and healing. Overcomers receive "hidden manna" and a "white stone" as spiritual rewards.
Acts 16:1-15 Bible Teaching
Timothy, nurtured by Eunice and Lois, was circumcised by Paul to avoid Jewish conflict. Paul's flexible approach spread faith, seen in the Macedonian call and Lydia's conversion.
Revelation 2:1-7 Part 2 Bible Teaching
Shawn's teaching on Revelation 2:1-7 highlights Ephesus' praise for resisting false apostles but critiques their loss of "first love." Emphasizes agape love over doctrine.
Acts 15:13-21 Bible Teaching
Paul and Barnabas addressed Gentile circumcision in Jerusalem. James concluded Gentiles needn't follow this, advising avoidance of idolatry, fornication, strangled animals, and blood.
An Illustration of Christ Part 2
Shawn's teaching highlights Jesus as the divine Son of God, emphasizing spiritual growth through faith, not rituals. Believers become God's children, sharing divine attributes, focusing on internalizing God's Word for transformation and spiritual maturity.
An Illustration of Christ Part 2
Shawn's teaching emphasizes Jesus' role in overcoming sin and death, faith as the path to becoming God's children, and spiritual growth through the Word and Spirit, not rituals.
An Illustration of Christ Bible Teaching
Shawn's teaching highlights Christmas's shift from religious to secular, emphasizes Jesus as mediator and divine communication, and underscores His dual nature and role in salvation.
Revelation 2:1-8 Part 1 Bible Teaching
Shawn's teaching on Revelation 2:1-7 highlights Ephesus's commendable labor and discernment but criticizes their loss of first love, urging repentance and return to devotion.
Acts 15:5-13 Bible Teaching
The teaching emphasizes salvation through faith and grace in Jesus, not adherence to Jewish laws like circumcision. It highlights unity, internal faith, and liberation from the Law.
Revelation 2:1-8 Bible Teaching
Jesus instructs John to document past, present, and future events in Revelation. Symbols like seven stars and lampstands represent church leaders and churches. Emphasizes grace, works, and steadfast faith.
Acts 14:24 – 15:4 Bible Teaching
Shawn emphasizes genuine prayer and fasting, critiques insincere practices, highlights early church debates on Jewish customs, and stresses spiritual transformation over rituals.
Acts 14:23 Bible Teaching
The teaching summary discusses the role of apostles and prophets in church governance, questioning modern claims of apostolic authority, emphasizing spiritual unity, and prioritizing love over structured institutions.