3rd Quarter 2014 – Good Word

Relevant Verse: Matthew 24-25 Leading Question: What did Jesus teach about his second coming? Studying the biblical evidence for the second coming can yield startling results. Where, for example, can one go in Jesus’ Bible –...

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Death and Resurrection

Lesson 12 for the week of September 13 to September 20

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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The Sabbath

Lesson 11 for the week of September 6 to September 13

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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The Law of God

Lesson 10 for the week of August 30 to September 6

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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Our Mission

Lesson 9 for the week of August 23 to August 30

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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The Church

Lesson 8 for the week of August 16 to August 23

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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Living Like Christ

Lesson 7 for the week of August 9 to August 16

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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Growing in Christ

Lesson 6 for the week of August 2 to August 9

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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How to Be Saved

Lesson 5 for the week of July 26 to August 2

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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Salvation

Lesson 4 for the week of July 19 to July 26

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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The Holy Spirit

Lesson 3 for the week of July 12 to July 19

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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The Son

Lesson 2 for the week of July 5 to July 12

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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Our Loving Heavenly Father

Lesson 1 for the week of June 28 to July 5

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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