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Lesson #31: Suffering
Define ‘Suffering’: Suffering is the state of undergoing pain, distress, or hardship. Define ‘Suffering for God’: Suffering for God is the state of undergoing pain, distress, or hardship as a result of living for God. Ask about who has suffered: Who has suffered for God? Will we go through suffering/persecution …
Lesson #30: Job
Read Job 1:1-5 Ask about Job: Who is Job?…He was a wealthy man of upright character that loved God. Additionally he feared God and shunned evil. Read Job 1:6-17 Ask about Satan: Why do you think the Lord allowed Satan to do those things to Job? Ask about Satan’s power: …
Lesson #29: Chivalry
(add more) Talk about the definition of chivalry: Chivalry (Bible Dictionary): “Protecting the weak, the suffering and the neglected by maintaining justice and righteousness.” Read 1 Peter 3:7…Do what is right and protect those who are weak. Read Ephesians 5:21-33 Talk about strength: As husbands/future husbands, we must portray these …
Lesson #28: Don’t be a Fool
Ask about the fool: When you think of a ‘fool’, what comes to mind?…Three Stooges, teenagers making dumb decisions, etc. Talk about the fool in the Bible: The Three Stooges, for instance, don’t necessarily fit Proverbs’s definition of ‘fool’. Compared to what it says in Proverbs, The Three Stooges are …
Lesson #27: Righteousness and Biblical Context
Ask about righteousness: What is righteousness/unrighteousness? Define righteous (online dictionary): morally right or justifiable Define unrighteous (online dictionary): wicked Ask about your spectrum of righteousness: Using the online definitions, where do you feel you land on the spectrum of righteousness?…I often compare and contrast myself with Jesus, himself. Honestly, I …
Lesson #26: Doubt
Ask about doubt…What is doubt?…(Bible dictionary definition) To waiver in opinion or judgment, to be in uncertainty as to belief expecting everything. Simply, to question. Ask about when we doubt…In what instances do we doubt?…Examples: 1) You don’t believe that you will finish in 1st place, 2) You doubt whether …
Lesson #25: What Are You Living For?
Ask about your own thoughts: What is on your mind the most on any given day?…Are your thoughts and desires molded by the world or by God? Read 1 John 2:15-17… Ask about living for things that fade away: Why should we live for things that fade away?…We shouldn’t. The …
Lesson #24: Hell
Talk about the different descriptions of Hell that are in the Bible…In the Bible, ‘Hell’ has been referred to as… “An unquenchable fire” “The blackness of darkness” “Furnace of fire” “Torment in fire and brimstone” “The smoke of their torment” “The lake where burneth with fire and brimstone” “Where their …
Lesson #23: Culture
Ask about Culture: What is culture?…Culture is the arts and manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarding collectivity. Ask about the American culture: What does our American popular culture include?…What are some ideas, perspectives, attitudes, images, and other phenomena that are within the mainstream of our culture? What are the icons …