Category: Lessons

The Holy Spirit: Working Behind the Scenes

• Lesson 2 for the week of January 7 to January 14

Related Verses: Gen. 1:2; Exod. 31:1-5; Ezek. 37:5-9; John 3:3-8; John 15:26 Leading Question: The official study guide takes a whole lesson to focus on how the Spirit works “behind the scenes.” Why is that...

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The Spirit and the Word

• Lesson 1 for the week of December 31 to January 7

Related Verses: 2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:19-21 Leading Question: What would we be missing if we spoke only of God the Father and God the Son, but not of God the Spirit? From a...

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Some Lessons from Job

• Lesson 14 for the week of December 24 to December 31

Related Verses: Job 1-42 Leading Question: For you, what is the most important take-away from our study of the book of Job? As author of this study guide, I would focus on four points as...

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The Character of Job

• Lesson 13 for the week of December 17 to December 24

Related Verses: Job 1-2, 31, 42 Leading Question: Who gives the right assessment of Job’s character: Job himself, his friends, or God? We can look at Job’s character from three perspectives: at the beginning before...

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Job’s Redeemer

• Lesson 12 for the week of December 10 to December 17

Related Verses: Job 19:25-27 Leading Question: What light does the Old Testament context throw on the word “Redeemer” and what it might have meant to Job? This week’s lesson focuses on the famous “Redeemer” passage...

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Out of the Whirlwind

• Lesson 11 for the week of December 3 to December 10

Related Verses: Job 27-32 Leading Question: If you had lots of questions to ask God and after a long silence he talked back but did not answer your questions, would you – like Job –...

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The Wrath of Elihu

• Lesson 10 for the week of November 26 to December 3

Related Verses: Job 27-32 Leading Question: In the end, God tells Job’s three friends that they need to repent. But he doesn’t say a thing about Elihu. Does that mean that Elihu had it right...

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Intimations of Hope

• Lesson 9 for the week of November 19 to November 26

Related Verses: Job 13 Leading Question: To what extent does Job establish a firm link between the believer’s hope and the resurrection and future life? In the lesson for December 17, the study guide takes...

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Innocent Blood

• Lesson 8 for the week of November 12 to November 19

Related Verses: Job 10, 15 Leading Question: How is it possible for a man who shares the common guilt of all humankind to also claim to be innocent as Job did? The book of Job...

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Retributive Punishment

• Lesson 7 for the week of November 5 to November 12

Related Verses: Job 8:1-22; 11:1-20 Leading Question: Is it possible that the book of Job eliminates all possibilities of speaking of retributive punishment? This week’s lesson focuses on Job’s second and third “friends,” Bildad and...

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The Curse Causeless

• Lesson 6 for the week of October 29 to November 5

Related Verses: Job 2:11-13; 4 and 5 Leading Question: Can the words of Scripture be useful, even when they are taken out of context? This week’s lesson focuses on the “encouraging” words spoken by Job’s...

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Curse the Day

• Lesson 5 for the week of October 22 to October 29

Related Verses: 1 Kings 19; Job 3, 6, 7; Psalm 88; Jer. 20:14-18 Leading Question: Is God willing to listen to Christians who are so discouraged that they curse the day of their birth? Among...

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God and Human Suffering

• Lesson 4 for the week of October 15 to October 22

Related Verses: Job Leading Question: If all we had was the book of Job, what would it tell us about God and human suffering? Without the rest of Scripture, Job tells us little about God...

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“Doth Job Fear God for Nought?”

• Lesson 3 for the week of October 8 to October 15

Related Verses: Genesis 3, Job 1-2, Matthew 4, Luke 4 Leading Question: Is Satan’s attack on Job typical of his methods in dealing with humans? The title for this week’s lesson is simply a sneer...

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