Leading Question: Does the Lord always choose the best man to be his leader? Key Passages: 1 Samuel 14, Jonathan takes risks for Israel, the people rescue him from Saul 1 Samuel 18-20 Jonathan in...
The Last Five Kings of Judah
October 10, 2015
Leading Question: Does it work to bargain with the Lord when we want something very badly? Key Passage: 1 Samuel 1-2, Baby Samuel brings joy to childless Hannah Questions: Bargaining with the Lord. Hannah made...
Leading Question: How does one stand for the Lord when everyone else falls away? Key Passages: Numbers 13-14, From twelve spies down to two, Caleb and Joshua Joshua 14, Caleb asks for the toughest part...
Appendix B: “Who Can Change the Mind of God?” Commentary on conditional prophecy (Jeremiah 26): By Alden Thompson, “Who Can Change the Mind of God?” Signs of the Times, Feb. 1992, 25-27. God is in...
Appendix A, on truth-telling: Commentary on the ninth command, Alden Thompson, “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor,” Signs of the Times, November 1988, 20-22. Published as “When the Truth Is a Lie,”...
Leading Question: “Do stories make truth more believable?” Key Passages: Genesis 39:6-12, Joseph and Potipher’s wife 1 Samuel 24:1-6, David allows Saul to escape from the cave Job 1-2, God and Satan in dialogue over righteous...
What should Christians do when they don’t agree? Having emphasized the supremacy of love in the Christian life (Rom 12:9-10; Rom 13:8-10), Paul now begins to wrap up his letter by providing examples of how...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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