Key Passages: 1 John 3:18 — Love not in word, but in deed. Eph. 5:1-2 — Imitate God in our loving. Phil. 2:1-3 — Consider others better than ourselves. Matt. 22:37-40 — Love others as...
The Last Five Kings of Judah
October 10, 2015
Key Passages: Eph. 4:4-6 — The NT proclaims one body, one faith, one God. Rev. 14:6 — “Gospel” is the heart of God’s last message. Gal. 1:7-9 — Alternative Gospels are bad news. cf. 2...
Key Passages: Eph. 2:1-3 — All are by nature children of wrath. Rom. 1:28-32 — Humans do evil even while they know better. cf. Rom. 2:12-16 — the “naturally” good Gentiles. Phil. 3:6 — Paul...
Relevant Biblical Passages & Portraits: Matt. 12:49-50 — Those who do God’s will are Jesus family. 2 Cor. 6:17-18 — God’s children are called to be separate. 1 John 5:14 — God’s family will ask...
At the conclusion of our discussions on creation we come full circle — back to creation again, this time of a new heaven and a new earth. Especially are the promises of Rev 21-22 a...
Creation is memorialized in the Bible in numerous ways, the Sabbath being one of the major ones. We examine here the connections in the Bible between creation and the Sabbath and how the Sabbath also...
Having explored creation from several perspectives thus far in this set of lessons, we are now in a position to catch our breath for a moment and reflect on what our faith in God as...
This lesson focuses on the issue of design in the creation. This concern has been foundational to arguments for the existence of God and for divine creation of the world. We want to explore the...
The biblical flood has long been the subject of extensive and heated debate. What we want to do in this lesson is explore primarily what the Bible has to say about the flood from the...
This lesson takes us to a discussion about the relationship between sin and death in the broadest terms. Picking up from Lesson #7, we redefine the terms for human sins and rebellion and consider the...
We hear about and discuss “The Fall” on occasion. Our goal for this lesson is to explore the collapse of human beings into evil and the consequences of the revolt and rebellion it engenders. Relevant...
A close look at the biblical accounts of creation reveals remarkable similarities and differences. We attempt here to listen carefully to the texts, compare and contrast them, and learn from and be enriched by them....
The issue of time and chronology for creation is not treated directly by any one biblical passage or book, but grows from a discussion of several chronological clues in the Bible and various dating methods...
Genesis 1 is clear about the time it took God to create the world by means of voicing it into existence. We explore here the implications of a six-day creation week for the creation account...
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