Category: Lessons

Relevant Verses: John 11 Leading Question: What does Jesus teach us about death and resurrection? Given what is happening in our culture today, Jesus’ attitudes toward death and resurrection have become urgent matters. Secularists who have...

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Relevant Verses: Mark 2:23-28; Matthew 12:1-14; Luke 4:16, John 5:1-18 Leading Question: What does Jesus teach us about the Sabbath? In this lesson we will focus on what Jesus tells us about the Sabbath in the...

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Relevant Verses: Matthew 5-7; 19:8; 22:37-40 Leading Question: What does Jesus tell us about “the law”? “Law” is an enormous topic to cover in just one lesson. Indeed last quarter all 13 lessons focused on law....

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Relevant Verses: Matthew 25, 28 Leading Question: What does Jesus tell us about “our” mission? Before looking specifically at what Jesus gives us as our mission, we should focus briefly on the difference between New Testament...

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Relevant Verses: John 17; 1 Corinthians 3, 12; Matt. 20:24-28 Leading Question: What does Jesus us tell us about the Church? In the NT, the Greek word for “church” is ecclesia , an assembly of people...

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Relevant Verses: Matt. 25:31-46; Luke 6:27-36; 10:25-37; John 16:25-27 Leading Question: When we say that we are to live like Christ, what does Jesus himself tell us about that? The troubling backdrop to the leading...

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Relevant Verses: John 15; Col. 1:24-29 Leading Question: What does Jesus tell us about growing in him? If, as suggested in the notes to last week’s lesson, “repentance” is the crucial element in God’s plan of...

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Relevant Verses: Luke 5:27-32; 6:27-36; 7:36-50; 14:15-24; 19:1-10; 22:1-14 Leading Question: Before his death, what did Jesus teach about how to be saved? In recent decades, Protestant evangelists have developed a liking for simple rules to...

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Relevant Verse: John 3:16 Leading Question: What do Jesus and Gospels tell us about salvation before Jesus died on the cross? Given the strong emphasis on substitutionary theology in evangelical circles, a position which sees the...

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Relevant Verses: John 14-17 Leading Question: What do we learn about the Holy Spirit from Jesus and the Gospels? 1. How should we understand John 7:37-38: 37 On the last day of the festival, the great...

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Relevant Verses: Isaiah 53; John 14-17 Leading Questions: Why is it so hard today for some to see Jesus as God incarnate and why was it so hard for the Jews in Jesus’ day? Why it...

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Relavent Verses: Matt. 6:9; Luke 11:2 Leading Question: What qualifies Jesus to tell us about the love of a heavenly Father? For this first lesson in the new quarter, the author of the official study guide...

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