Please note that Bible time 00 – “The Setting,” is so marked only because it is also slated to be Bible Time 12 in Part 6. Make sure you cover it, it is not optional!
00 – The Setting
01 – The Lost Sheep
02 – The Lost Coin
03 – Two Sons – Lost
04- Two Sons – Younger
05 – Two Sons – Father
06 – Two Sons – Older
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Biblegateway.com has an IVP commentary on line that would provide an excellent resource for preparing to use these Bible times. A relevant part of this commentary can be found here.
00 – Reread Luke 12
01 – Repent or Perish
01 – Map
02 – A Grace Period
03 – The Sabbath Day
04 – Healing
05 – The Kingdom
05 – Mustard Seed Handout
06 – The Narrow Door
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Luke Part 5 picks up in Luke 11:5, just after the Lord’s Prayer. Bible times 1-5 complete chapter 11, and chapter 12 begins in Bible time #6.
01 – Prayer
02 – Power
03 – Blessing
04 – Something greater
05 – A most amazing dinner
06 – Fear and Worth
07 – The Unforgiven Sin
08 – Life
09 – Do not worry
10 – Waiting
11 – Fire and Trouble
12 – Understanding
12 – Map
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Part 2 is a 12-part series that picks up in Luke 3 with John the Baptist and continues through the end of chapter 6. In the first week there is a remarkable opportunity to share the gospel and encourage your students to accept Christ. Notice that there are two options for week 7.
01 – John the B
02 – Bap and Temp
03 – Two Synagogues
04 – Sick and Demons
05 – Simon’s change
06 – Jesus and a leper
07 – Meet the Pharisees
07 – The Paralytic
08 – the Sabbath
09 – The Beatitudes
10 – Kingdom Living
11 – Specks and Logs
12 – Building
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During the winter semester, 2010, we started reading the Book of Luke with our students. We finished chapters 1 and 2 in eight lessons.
01 – Introduction
02 – Birth Announcement – John
03 – Birth Announcement – Jesus
04 – Mary and Elizabeth
05 – Birth of John
06 – Birth of Jesus
07 – Simeon and Anna
08 – The boy Jesus
Maps we used:
Luke Overview Map
Luke Map showing Roman Roads
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Part 3 wraps up the Bible time series entitled “The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.” Continuing in the story form following the book of Genesis, it begins with recap and then Jacob’s dream, and ends when Jacob has met Esau again. There are 10 lessons in Part 3, including a brief overview of the life of Joseph.
The overview of Joseph was included in an attempt to help the students understand how God may use a situation for more than one reason. The situation? Rachel’s childlessness. Her childlessness was at least designed to help her realize that children come from the Lord, and not from the husband, or, worse yet, from mandrake roots. But, the fact of her long period of childlessness, the fact that this contributed to her son being the spoiled favorite of his father, hated by his brothers, was used by God to get Joseph to Egypt, where He used Joseph to grow His people group into a large, pure nation. (Egyptians detested Hebrews, so there was little chance of intermarrying; had they stayed in Canaan they could have intermarried freely with the people there.)
Core truths of this Bible time series:
1. God is a great Redeemer
2. God is a promise-keeper
3. God chose a people for Himself, so the world would clearly know who Jesus was.
God chose a people for Himself, the Jewish people, so that all the people in the world would clearly know who Jesus was. The Jewish people kept detailed geneologies, but after Jesus rose from the dead and returned to heaven, the Romans destroyed Jerusalem and the geneologies were lost. The world didn’t need the geneologies anymore, because Jesus had come!
The “Covenant” is called “God’s special, eternal promise.” We emphasized 2 points of the special, eternal promise:
1. many descendants
2. becoming a blessing to all nations = Jesus!
In hindsight, I wish we had emphasized the part of the covenant to Abraham, “becoming the father of many nations” which is fulfilled in the church. But we emphasized how the covenant was transferred from Abraham to Isaac (his only son by his wife) to Jacob (just one of the twins) but then to all the 12 sons, who each became the father of a tribe.
The “God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob” Bible time series was originally written and used in Japan in 1996. The story nature of the series really seemed to resonate with Japanese people, and for the first time we had students who missed their English lesson but showed up for Bible time so they “didn’t miss anything.”
01 – Story so far
02 – Jacob’s Dream
03 – Jacob Meets Rachel
04 – Jacob Marries
05 – Children
05 – Children chart
06 – More Children
07 – Joseph
08 – Jacob is afraid
09 – Jacob wrestles
10 – Jacob meets Esau
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The “God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob” Bible time series was originally written and used in Japan in 1996. The story nature of the series really seemed to resonate with Japanese people, and for the first time we had students who missed their English lesson but showed up for Bible time “so they didn’t miss anything.” Part 2 has twelve lessons starting with Hagar being sent away, and ending with Jacob running away. It was revised in 2009.
Core truths of this Bible time series:
1. God is a great Redeemer
2. God is a promise-keeper
3. God chose a people for Himself, so the world would clearly know who Jesus was.
God chose a people for Himself, the Jewish people, so that all the people in the world would clearly know who Jesus was. The Jewish people kept detailed geneologies, but after Jesus rose from the dead and returned to heaven, the Romans destroyed Jerusalem and the geneologies were lost. The world didn’t need the geneologies anymore, because Jesus had come!
The “Covenant” is called “God’s special, eternal promise.” We emphasized 2 points of the special, eternal promise:
1. many descendants
2. becoming a blessing to all nations = Jesus!
In hindsight, I wish we had emphasized the part of the covenant to Abraham, “becoming the father of many nations” which is fulfilled in the church. But we emphasized how the covenant was transferred from Abraham to Isaac (his only son by his wife) to Jacob (just one of the twins) but then to all the 12 sons, who each became the father of a tribe.
01 – Hagar is sent away
02 – More about Hagar
03 – Abraham tested
04 – Abra in Hebrews
06 – A wife for Isaac
06 – A wife for Isaac
07 – A wife for Isaac 2
08 – Death of Abraham
09 – Birth of Jacob&Esau
10 – The birthright
11 – The trick
12 – Jacob runs away
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Reading the story of Ruth should be refreshing to the students as well as minister to their felt need for English, as storytelling is a valuable fluency activity. During these nine lessons we will look at several grand and seminal Biblical themes, especially the picture of a “Redeemer” as illustrated by Boaz’ marriage to the foreigner Ruth.
Biblical Themes in the Book of Ruth:
1) God rules what happens in the world. It was God that gave food to the people of Bethlehem, Ruth 1:6. It was God that led Ruth to the field that belonged to Boaz, Ruth 2:3. It was God that gave Ruth and Boaz a son, Ruth 4:12. When bad things happened, God still used them, Ruth 1:21. God can make good things come from bad things.
2) God loves people. He does not only love Jews. He loves people from all other countries also. He does not only love men. He also loves women, Ruth 2:10, 13. Boaz’s love for Ruth is a picture of God’s love for us. Read the *family tree of Jesus in Matthew 1. There are 4 women in it and probably 3 of them were foreign to the Jews.
3) God cares for people. This means that he gives them what they need. God cared for the family of Jesus 1000 years before Jesus came to the earth, (Ruth 4:16). God uses people to care for other people. He used Naomi to care for Ruth and Obed. Those that love Jesus are part of his family. That means that God cares for them as well.
Other points that might touch our students:
1. There were foreigners in Jesus’ family tree, although he was to be the ultimate King of Israel. Japanese may not be able to imagine foreigners in the line of their emperor. (Thanks to Abi for this one.)
2. Ruth’s good relationship with her mother-in-law
3. God’s law about gleaning – providing for the poor. Japan was criticized in the past for fencing off its overseas orchards precisely so that poor people couldn’t glean
This series could not have been written without Wycliffe’s wonderful site easyenglish.com, where you can find very easy translations of most of the books of the Bible as well as Bible study materials. It was written with especially grateful thanks to Gordon Churchyard. All of the bolded text in this series was drawn from his material.
Lesson 7 – An arranged marriage
Lesson 9 – Ruth in Jesus’ family tree
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