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(26 sessions) Unhappy with God’s governing system of judges, and with Samuel aging and his sons unfit for leadership, the nation of Israel requests a king. God, although recognizing the rejection, grants the request. The consequences reverberate until the time of the Babylonian captivity. From the events surrounding Saul, David and Solomon, this workbook helps illustrate that daily decisions can have consequences beyond what we ever dreamed, and that ultimately, our lives are not complete without God as our King.
(26 sessions) Prayer is one of the most powerful tools available to the Christian and the church, yet too often, we pray only infrequently and have no idea what to pray for when we do. This workbook aims to revive our prayer lives by examining the prayers of one of the most committed Christians of all time: the apostle Paul. As we study the prayers of Paul, they teach us not just how we can pray, but how we can share the mind of Christ.
(26 sessions) In the Lord’s church, we are well aware that God expects our song worship to take the form of congregational singing. However, the Bible reveals that God has expectations not just for the form of our worship, but for its content. This book takes a Biblical look at the requirements, process, and attitude of song worship, while also studying many of the great hymns that give us the greatest opportunity to teach one another and glorify God.
(26 sessions) In our study of the Old Testament, we spend a great deal of time examining the lives of Moses, David, and other Bible heroes, but we often overlook the greatest hero of them all: God. This book explores the character of God as it is revealed through the saga of the Old Testament, from Genesis to Malachi. Such a survey provides us with crucial insights into the nature of the God whom we still serve today.
(26 sessions) The religious landscape of today is filled with challenges to the unity of God’s people, both without and within the church. Although their form is different, these challenges are essentially the same as the challenges Paul addressed in his first letter to the strife-ridden church in Corinth. As we study Paul’s powerful call to humility and love, it helps us to understand not only how the Corinthians could solve their problems, but how we can solve our own.
(26 sessions) The Christian existence is in many ways a study in contrasts. We live two lives: the visible life of the body and the invisible life of the spirit. In 2 Corinthians, Paul appeals to the church in Corinth to pay more attention to the spiritual side of this dualism, both in himself and in themselves. In a world filled with materialism and other distractions, Paul’s appeal still sounds clearly upon our ears, an appeal that we need to hear, to reject the flesh and embrace the spirit.
(26 sessions) The Sermon on the Mount is the greatest sermon of the greatest preacher of all time. In a short series of discourses, Jesus turned hundreds of years of Jewish tradition on its head, summoning His hearers to a religion not of form and ritual, but of the heart. We are tempted in this no less than the Pharisees, as Satan induces each one of us to don a mask of hypocrisy concealing a spirit of corruption. We still need these timeless teachings of Jesus to renew us in the heart that God wants us to possess.
(26 sessions) As the modern United States wanders farther and farther from God, the seductive appeals of Satan have enticed many in the church to follow the world, a step or two behind, but headed in the same direction. This book examines many of the issues where this spiritual drift has become most apparent and exhorts the Christian to remain firm in his devotion to the principles of God’s word.
(52 sessions) Romans is one of the most significant books of the New Testament. It is simultaneously Paul’s systematic defense of Christianity and his appeal to his Jewish kindred to turn to Christ. Romans speaks to us today with equal force as it describes the salvation we and Paul have in common, a salvation based not on works and merit, but on the obedience of faith.
(13 sessions) Mature sunflowers always face toward the sun, turning their heads from east to west to follow it as it moves across the sky. In the same way, young Christian women should be Sonflowers, so that no matter what their situation, their faces are always turned toward Jesus. This workbook explores a number of the unique challenges that face teenage girls in today’s corrupt moral environment, and it encourages them to keep oriented toward the Son.
(26 sessions) The story of God’s rescue of the children of Israel from Egyptian bondage is one of the greatest stories of the Bible. This lesson book focuses on that story as it is told through the last four books of the Pentateuch, while also examining concepts from the Law of Moses that reappear in the New Testament.
(26 sessions) The epistle of Hebrews was written in a very specific context: Christians from Jewish backgrounds were being tempted to relapse into Judaism, and the Hebrews writer wished to encourage them to remain faithful. Even though few of us suffer from that precise spiritual problem, Hebrews is still useful for us for two main reasons. First, the rhetorical tack the writer chose illuminates the superiority of the new covenant over the covenant of Moses, and second, the greatness of our covenant thus revealed encourages us to remain faithful too. This book explores both.
(26 sessions) The books of Galatians and Colossians come from very different parts of the life of the apostle Paul, and they address very different churches. Nonetheless, they share an essential similarity, for both books are written to confront false teachers who wish to lure the faithful away from Jesus. The defense that Paul mounts of genuine Christianity in both epistles is still relevant and meaningful today, and from it we can learn the importance of being crucified with Christ.
(6 sessions) Of all the books in the New Testament, James is one of the most practical. This short booklet explores several important topics from James, and the ways that we need to put James’ wisdom into practice.
(6 sessions) This book is designed as a short study for new converts. Its goal is to equip them to face many of the challenges they will encounter as new Christians.
(17 sessions) This book is meant to be used in congregations with a teaching schedule that tracks the semesters of a college year. It explores the Old Testament types of antitypes discussed in Galatians and Hebrews.
(26 sessions) This book examines the history of Israel from the time of the conquest of Canaan through the judgeship of Samuel and derives practical lessons from this turbulent period in the saga of God’s people.
(26 sessions) Of all four legitimate gospels, Mark is the one that gets the least respect. In our study, it is often overshadowed by the other two Synoptic Gospels of Matthew and Luke. However, Mark’s unique perspective on the ministry of Jesus teaches us invaluable lessons about our Lord and what it was like to walk with Him. This lesson book is a topical study designed to highlight those lessons.
