Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion you should be able to:

• Teach on miracles in a way that is both biblically faithful and aware of modern-day questions

• Discuss the resurrection as a miraculous event in historical context

• Compare miracles recorded in the gospels

Course Outline

Introduction

• Introducing the Speaker and the Course

• The Place of Miracles in Jesus’ Ministry

• Creating a Custom Guide for Researching Biblical Concepts

Unit 1: Miracles in Matthew

• The Structure of Miracles in Matthew

• Finding References to Jesus’ Miracles

• Healing the Leper

• Healing the Centurion’s Servant

• Locating References to Specific Kinds of Miracles

• Total Healing

Unit 2: Background for Studying the Miracles

• Objections to Miracles

• Comparing Parallel Miracle Accounts with Gospel Harmonies

• Reconsidering Contradictions

• Defining “Miracle”

• Discovering the Greek and Hebrew Terms for “Miracle“

• Miracles as Signs

• Finding the “I Am” Statements that Surround Jesus’ Miracles

• Miracles in Other Religions

• Miracles Today

Unit 3: Understanding Miracles

• Challenges to Understanding Miracles

• Application of Principles (Luke 5:17–26)

• Responses to the Miracle (Luke 5:17–26)

• Criticism of Jesus’ Miracles

• Differing Accounts of Feeding the 5,000

• Walking on the Water

• Walking on the Water: A Christocentric Interpretation

• An Old Testament Miracle: A Theocentric Interpretation

• Miracles in Historical Context

• Miracles in Canonical Context: The Synoptics

• Miracles in Canonical Context: John’s Gospel

Unit 4: Miracles in Mark

• Healing the Deaf Man

• Healing a Blind Man in Stages

• Healing the Demon-Possessed Child

• Healing the Hemorrhaging Woman

• Locating Questions in the Miracle Narratives

• Raising Jairus’ Daughter

Unit 5: Miracles in Luke

• Miracles and Luke’s Themes

• Luke’s Use of Miracles

• Investigating Jesus’ Title of “Master”

• The Great Catch of Fish

• Healing the Gerasene Demoniac

• Responses to Jesus

Unit 6: Miracles in John

• The First Sign: The Wedding at Cana

• Understanding the Background of John 2:1–10

• The Sign: Healing the Invalid

• The Sign: Healing the Man Born Blind

• Exploring the Textual Variant in John 5:3–5

• The Man Born Blind, Part 2

• Understanding and Applying John 5 and 9

• The Way of Suffering

• The Last Sign: Raising Lazarus from the Dead

• Raising Lazarus, Part 2

Unit 7: The Historicity of the Miracle Accounts

• Reasons to Believe (1–2)

• Reasons to Believe (3–7)

Unit 8: The Miracle of the Resurrection

• The Necessity of the Crucifixion

• The Necessity of the Resurrection

• The Meaning of the Resurrection

• The Resurrection in Matthew

• The Resurrection in Matthew: The Great Commission

• The Resurrection in Mark

• The Resurrection in Luke: On the Emmaus Road

• The Resurrection in Luke: Jesus in the Law and Prophets

• The Resurrection in John: Eyewitness Accounts

• The Resurrection in John: Seeing and Believing

• The Resurrection in John: Blessed Believers

Unit 9: Do Miracles Happen Today?

• Miracles Past and Present

• Prayer and Healing in James 5

• Reclaiming a Biblical Practice

Conclusion

• Encouraging to Believe

Details

• Title: NT253 Miracles of Jesus

• Instructor: Daniel M. Doriani

• Publisher: Lexham Press

• Publication Date: 2015

• Product Type: Logos Mobile Education

• Resource Type: Courseware, including transcripts, audio, and video resources

• Courses: 1

• Video Hours: 8