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Summer Sessions 2021
What does hope look like in your life? Can people outside the faith see it in your life?
In what ways are you following Jesus during the tribulation? What are the tough spots?
Is your life marked by desperate/urgent prayer?
Individually:
What habits keep you in communion with Christ?
What habits keep you from communion with Christ?
What habits do you want to build into your life?
As A Church
Take a look at your list of PABST people from last week.
How are you going to bring these folks into our community?
What’s keeping you?
Sinclair Ferguson on union with Christ.
PABST. (Pray. Ask. Bless. Share your story. Tell/Teach the gospel.)
Write down 3 names in your booklet and take notes through PABST.
Matthew 22:34–40
But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
Here is a longer video where DA Carson teaches about the greatest commandment.
Copy, mark up, and spend the week with Romans 1:16-17.
Write up a few application ideas.
Memorize it for extra brownie points.
Romans 1:16-17 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”
Here is a longer video of the late great RC Sproul teaching a longer bit on Justification by Faith Alone.
This first video is from a non-Christian educational group linked to PBS. It covers really well the basic idea of existentialism (all of these videos are really well done). We watched this video to compare this idea of the human condition to the one we find in scripture.
Answer in your notebook:
Does anything from today’s study bother you? Why?
Imagine someone says to you, “I’m a good person so if there is a heaven, I’m sure that’s where I’m headed, right?” How would you respond to that?
What happens when we try and soften the Biblical teaching on sin?
Here is a great sermon by Dr. Tim Keller on sin and the nature of humanity:
Here is an article from the Gospel Coalition called, “Goodby, Faith in Humanity” about the problem of evil in human history and what that says about us.
Matt from the 10 minute Bible hour has a 35 part series called “The Nuts and Bolts of the Bible.” Spend some time this week and browse that playlist and watch another video or two on a subject that interests you.
Write out Psalm 1 in your booklet.
Read it everyday.
On the last day, answer two questions:
What was the main point to the original audience?
How does this passage bridge the gap?
What are the practices that you use to let your life be molded/formed by the story of the Bible?
What are the ways that you find yourself misguided in your aproach to the scripture?
What is one specific change you’d like to make in your life when it comes to the scripture?
Write down any questions that you have about the Bible in the back of your noteboook.
How in your life have you forgotten that God is Compassionate? Gracious? Slow to Anger? Loving towards you? Faithful? Be specific.
How can you better reflect these characteristics to specific people?
How to explain The Trinity? Father, Son, Holy Spirit in One - Nabeel Qureshi
Bible Project: God
R.C. Sproul: Son of Man
Bible Project: Holy Spirit
One truth to be thankful for
One way something here challenges you to live differently
Questions for the back of your notebook
CS Lewis on the Trinity
Silly Video About the theology of the trinity
