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Covenant Bible Study guides small groups through a comprehensive, in-depth study of the whole Bible over twenty-four sessions broken into three eight-session modules.
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Creating the Covenant
Session 1: Covenant is about the family God creates and the power of love that overcomes evil. We are broken and miss the mark. Substitutes for faithful love de...
Session 2: Covenant relationships are a metaphor for life together before God. This life is characterized by both gift and responsibility. Broken relationships ...
Session 3: The covenant at Sinai creates a people with instructions for living in harmony. These instructions are ever in need of reinterpretation in new situat...
Session 4: By arranging the events of his life, death, and resurrection in distinct order, the Gospels depict Jesus as both the suffering "human one" and a new ...
Session 5: The letters of Paul substituted for his presence and represent his attempt to deal with controversies and provide guidance to churches from a pastor'...
Session 6: Hebrews embraces the imagery of sacrifice in the Old Testament to describe Jesus' pioneering cosmic work of redemption. Replacing fear with trust, Je...
Session 7: Paul's letters to the church at Corinth address very concrete issues in a culture that honors the freedom of superiors to do as they please. Paul cou...
Session 8: Life in the land after Moses and Joshua is characterized by faithlessness, crisis, cries for help, and temporary rescue. The last tribal chieftain/fi...
Session 2.1: Being the "chosen people" doesn't mean all others are unchosen. It simply means that within the whole human race that God is in covenant relationsh...
Session 3.1: The language of salvation and redemption used to describe the work of Jesus in the New Testament is the same vocabulary used to describe Moses in t...
Session 4.1: Parables were contextual examples from everyday life communicating the powerful reversals of the kingdom of heaven.
Session 6.1: The author of Hebrews wants to impress on readers that it should be unthinkable to respond to God's favor and generosity with anything other than g...
Session 8.1: In the Torah or instruction God makes provisions for our failures to live up to the demands of the law. It shows God acting to help Israel obey. Th...
Session 8.2: The Shema in Deuteronomy 6:4-9 is to dominate Israelite life. The covenant is detailed but can be boiled down to relationality: what we do for God ...
Living the Covenant
Session 1: In the story of Ruth, both Ruth and Boaz risk caring beyond conventional expectations, displaying faithful love with consequences for Israel's royal ...
Session 2: Luke and Acts offer a vision of who God is and what salvation means. For the writer, Jesus is a prophet who reveals God's heart and intention to rema...
Session 3: In these books the prophets serve as truth-tellers to Israel's kings. They stress that relationship rather than power is central to choosing what's b...
Session 4: 1 and 2 Thessalonians are written to a community Paul loves - a community anxious about Jesus' return. 1 and 2 Timothy and Titus are written to Paul'...
Session 5: Wisdom literature begins and ends with what is good for human beings in life. Starting with everyday insights gathered across time by courts scribes,...
Session 6: Paul says that God is able to restore hope and encourages reconciliation between Philemon and his runaway slave. Paul is a pastoral thinker and his w...
Session 7: These letters are written to churches suffering harassment and struggling to keep the faith when Jesus' promised return hasn't occurred. They are wri...
Session 8: The prophets express the feelings of God: God's deep love for Israel and all of humanity, but also God's deep pain, disappointment, and anger when th...
Session 1.1: In the court tales of Esther Jewish characters are given power and access to rulers because of their gifts, intelligence, virtue, or beauty. They a...
Session 3.1: The whole narrative of Samuel and Kings tells the tragic story of failed leadership and the consequences for the covenant people. Compassion and lo...
Session 3.2: In the failure and consequences of the monarchy arises a hope that the scriptural texts themselves provide for a people in exile and those of us wh...
Session 5.1: Proverbs. Through brief, often vivid metaphorical sayings this crafted speech is honed and handed down. They are simple sayings that reflect the sa...
Session 5.2: The sages say that the way we respond to life is through poetry. They are simple sayings that reflect the sages' view that God formed the world by ...
Session 7.1: James is very practical. Key takeaways from the book of James about how we should behave and live are related to partiality in the church and sland...
Session 7.2: When Paul talks about faith he is talking about a total orientation of the self toward God and that necessarily includes what you do with your life...
Session 8.1: In ancient Israel there were men who functioned as spokespersons for God. Some functioned as royal prophets in the court of the king. They had acce...
Session 8.2: Isaiah has a bone to pick with the king around a variety of issues. The king is God's person and so the king is accountable to God for the state of...
Trusting the Covenant
Session 1: Jesus meets his followers in whatever ways they need with new and abundant life. Jesus draws people back into community and promises the Holy Spirit ...
Session 2: Psalms are songs, poems, and prayers to and about God. The psalms give voice to our conflicts, confessions, and cries for God's rescuing help. The Ps...
Session 3: Job stages difficult human questions such as, "Why do human beings worship God?", "Why do people suffer?", "what is God's role in suffering?", "Does ...
Session 4: Jeremiah, Lamentations, and Ezekiel offer three different perspectives on the same catastrophic event: the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem in 587...
Session 5: The story of how Israel gained and lost the land becomes a treasure that they carry with them into exile. The poetry in these passages is written to ...
Session 6: The people returning home from exile in successive waves must rebuild their whole way of life. Ezra and Nehemiah look at the practical need for city ...
Session 7: By using vivid symbols and imagery, the court tales and visions of Daniel stress that God is ultimately controls human events. The identity of faithf...
Session 8: Revelation is a book written for poor people struggling under great duress. It uses vivid, terrifying images to express God's unswerving faithfulness...
Session 9: One of the most important lessons from this study is that our covenant relationships with God can be repaired when things go wrong. God's ultimate gr...
Session 1.1: Comparing John to other Gospels, Mark is the story of the suffering servant, Matthew is the teaching gospel, Luke is the prophet emphasizing social...
Session 2.1: Psalms are songs meant to be sung in community. They are exercises of community. Psalms intercede and invite God into our community. Psalms retell ...
Session 7.1: Those who come home from exile in Babylon in the first wave of returnees must also welcome those who would come in succeeding waves. They experienc...
Session 7.2: The powerful read their fate in the book of Daniel. Those in power are called to an exercise of authority in justice and compassion. We see in Dani...
Session 8.1: The saving figure in Daniel-the fourth in the fiery furnace, the one like a "son of man," was probably modeled on the angel Michael. The hope is th...
Covenant Bible Study guides small groups through a comprehensive, in-depth study of the whole Bible over twenty-four sessions broken into three eight-session mo...
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