Category: Lessons

Escape From the World’s Ways

• Lesson 4 for the week of January 20 to January 27

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Read for This Week’s Study: Ps. 119:11; Eph. 6:18; Rom. 8:5, 6; Heb. 11:1–6; 1 Kings 3:14; Ezek. 36:26, 27. Memory Text: “Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from...

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God or Mammon?

• Lesson 3 for the week of January 13 to January 20

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Read for This Week’s Study: Ps. 33:6–9; Matt. 19:16–22; 1 Pet. 1:18; Heb. 2:14, 15; Exod. 9:14; Ps. 50:10. Memory Text: “Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is...

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I See, I Want, I Take

• Lesson 2 for the week of January 6 to January 13

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Read for This Week’s Study: 2 Cor. 8:1–7; Matt. 13:3–7, 22; Gen. 3:1–6; Isa. 56:11; Matt. 26:14–16; 2 Pet. 1:5–9. Memory Text: “ ‘Now he who received seed among the thorns is he who hears...

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The Influence of Materialism

• Lesson 1 for the week of December 30 to January 6

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Read for This Week’s Study: 1 John 2:16, 17; Luke 14:26–33; 12:15–21; Deut. 8:10–14; 1 Tim. 6:10; John 15:5; Gal. 2:20. Memory Text: “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the...

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Introduction to “Stewardship: Motives of the Heart”

• Introduction

The lessons this quarter are focused on what is commonly known as Stewardship. The word “stewardship” is an old word that has much the same meaning as the word “manager” or “management” today. A steward...

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Christian Living

• Lesson 13 for the week of December 23 to December 30

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What should Christians do when they don’t agree? Having emphasized the supremacy of love in the Christian life (12:9-10; 13:8-10), Paul now begins to wrap up his letter by providing examples of how love should...

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Overcoming Evil with Good

• Lesson 12 for the week of December 16 to December 23

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How should the Christian live be lived? Now that Paul has finished his explanation of the gospel, he turns his attention more fully to the way life should be lived in light of it. Paul...

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The Elect

• Lesson 11 for the week of December 9 to December 16

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Did God reject the Jewish nation? Today’s lesson focuses on Romans 10 and 11 and is a continuation of Paul’s discussion in chapter 9 dealing with fact that so many Jews failed to accept Jesus...

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Children of the Promise

• Lesson 10 for the week of December 2 to December 9

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What qualities is God looking for in the lives of his followers today? I suspect that Romans 9-11 is probably the least liked section in Romans. The first eight chapters of Romans provide a stunning...

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No Condemnation

• Lesson 9 for the week of November 25 to December 2

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What role does the Holy Spirit play in the Christian life? In contrast to the discouraging picture painted in Romans 7 of the person struggling to overcome sin, but failing miserable, Romans 8 offers a...

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Who is the Man of Romans 7

• Lesson 8 for the week of November 18 to November 25

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Who is the man in Romans 7? Today’s lesson deals with one of the most controversial passages in Paul’s epistle: the identity of the man in Romans 7 struggling ineffectively against the power sin in...

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Overcoming Sin

• Lesson 7 for the week of November 11 to November 18

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Is freedom from sin a reality in your life? Paul’s insistence that a person is saved by faith apart from works of the law (Rom. 3:28) was troubling for some Christians—particularly those who were Jewish...

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Adam and Jesus

• Lesson 6 for the week of November 4 to November 11

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What difference does justification by faith really make in a person’s life? Although Paul has explained the details of what it means to be justified by faith and has illustrated that experience in the life...

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The Faith of Abraham

• Lesson 5 for the week of October 28 to November 4

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Was Abraham justified by obedience or by faith? Having provided a technical definition and explanation of justification by faith in Romans 3:21-31, Paul now turns his attention in Romans 4 to the experience of Abraham....

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