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The Same Faith and Hope

• Lesson 3 for the week of October 9 to October 16

Key Passages: Eph. 4:4-6 — The NT proclaims one body, one faith, one God. Rev. 14:6 — “Gospel” is the heart of God’s last message. Gal. 1:7-9 — Alternative Gospels are bad news. cf. 2...

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New Persons in Christ

• Lesson 2 for the week of October 2 to October 9

Key Passages: Eph. 2:1-3 — All are by nature children of wrath. Rom. 1:28-32 — Humans do evil even while they know better. cf. Rom. 2:12-16 — the “naturally” good Gentiles. Phil. 3:6 — Paul...

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We Are a Family

• Lesson 1 for the week of September 25 to October 2

Relevant Biblical Passages & Portraits: Matt. 12:49-50 — Those who do God’s will are Jesus family. 2 Cor. 6:17-18 — God’s children are called to be separate. 1 John 5:14 — God’s family will ask...

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Paradise Restored: The Earth Made New

• Lesson 13 for the week of September 18 to September 25

At the conclusion of our discussions on creation we come full circle — back to creation again, this time of a new heaven and a new earth. Especially are the promises of Rev 21-22 a...

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Paradise Remembered: Sabbath and Redemption in Creation

• Lesson 12 for the week of September 11 to September 18

Creation is memorialized in the Bible in numerous ways, the Sabbath being one of the major ones. We examine here the connections in the Bible between creation and the Sabbath and how the Sabbath also...

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God’s Power in Nature

• Lesson 11 for the week of September 4 to September 11

Having explored creation from several perspectives thus far in this set of lessons, we are now in a position to catch our breath for a moment and reflect on what our faith in God as...

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Master Designer

• Lesson 10 for the week of August 28 to September 4

This lesson focuses on the issue of design in the creation. This concern has been foundational to arguments for the existence of God and for divine creation of the world. We want to explore the...

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Creation and the Flood

• Lesson 9 for the week of August 21 to August 28

The biblical flood has long been the subject of extensive and heated debate. What we want to do in this lesson is explore primarily what the Bible has to say about the flood from the...

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Sin & Death

• Lesson 8 for the week of August 14 to August 21

This lesson takes us to a discussion about the relationship between sin and death in the broadest terms. Picking up from Lesson #7, we redefine the terms for human sins and rebellion and consider the...

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Paradise Lost: The Impact of the Fall

• Lesson 7 for the week of August 7 to August 14

We hear about and discuss “The Fall” on occasion. Our goal for this lesson is to explore the collapse of human beings into evil and the consequences of the revolt and rebellion it engenders. Relevant...

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The Creation Accounts

• Lesson 6 for the week of July 31 to August 7

A close look at the biblical accounts of creation reveals remarkable similarities and differences. We attempt here to listen carefully to the texts, compare and contrast them, and learn from and be enriched by them....

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When Creation?

• Lesson 5 for the week of July 24 to July 31

The issue of time and chronology for creation is not treated directly by any one biblical passage or book, but grows from a discussion of several chronological clues in the Bible and various dating methods...

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Creation in Six Days

• Lesson 4 for the week of July 17 to July 24

Genesis 1 is clear about the time it took God to create the world by means of voicing it into existence. We explore here the implications of a six-day creation week for the creation account...

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What Happened?

• Lesson 3 for the week of July 10 to July 17

Lessons 2 and 3 grapple with the relationship between nature and the Bible. In the course of this part of the discussion about creation, we will need to ask important questions about the role of...

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