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Week Ten Wrap-Up

I’m thrilled that you’ve made it here to Week 10! Whether you’ve made it in 10 weeks, 15 weeks or more, you’ve finished this leg of the journey and I want to commend you for a job well done. It has been my pleasure to study with all of you and I look forward to continuing our journey together.

Here are the questions to get our discussion rolling today:

• How are you at discerning truth and being able to tell it apart from error?

• How can we be truth tellers in a society that is so saturated with and bent towards lies?

• What has been your biggest takeaway from this study?

Finally, here’s the link to partner with us in bringing inductive Bible study to others around the world! I hope you’ll join me. 🙂

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Week Nine Wrap-Up

The book of Joshua is one of my favorites in all of the biblical text! I hope you’ve enjoyed your time reading about the victories of the children of Israel as much as I have this week. Here are the questions to get our discussion time rolling:

• Are there shoes you’ve been trying to fill that you just need to surrender to God? If so, how will you do that?

• How are you at responding to the truth that you have?

Looking forward to hearing from you this week!

Week Eight Wrap-Up

Just so you know, you’ve officially made it through the toughest part of this study! Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy are all critical books in God’s revelation, but they are tough. Our final two weeks in Joshua and Judges will be easier as we’ll be making our way into more narrative sections of Scripture.

The two questions to kick off our discussion time this week are:

• What simple truth in God’s Word do you make more difficult than it is?

• So far in this study we’ve talked quite a bit about pushing ahead of God. Is there any area where you’re lagging? Is there anywhere God is saying “Move” and you’re saying “I’d rather not”?

Remember, these questions are just to get us started. Feel free to add your comments, thoughts, and takeaways from your study this week.

Finally, it’s not too late to join me in a class gift for Precept Ministries. When you give to Precept, you help people around the world learn to discover truth for themselves in God’s Word. Since last week, we’ve contributed $800 as a group. Here’s the link if you believe God would have you give:

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Week Seven Wrap-Up

This week, my friends, you get to flex with me. 🙂 As you know, I’m really in the big middle of this study with you. I cut the videos week by week as we go along and this week I’m traveling. Had the video done before I got on the plane but compression and uploading takes a bit of time. Should have been able to do it before bed last night, but was so tired I let it upload while I slept.

Thanks for your patience with me!

Here are the two questions to get us started this week:

• What does living as a holy people look like in your life today?

• How would you answer a person who wanted to know why on earth they should read/study Leviticus and/or Numbers?

Looking forward to hearing from you soon AND if you’re in Chattanooga for the Women’s Conference, I look forward to seeing you!

One more thing . . . the video is a little long this week, but there is an extended portion of review. If you’re pressed on time and are solid on the material we’ve covered so far, feel free to scoot ahead to the 13:14 minute mark if you can recite the players from Adam through Moses backwards while standing on your head in the dark. 😉

Week Six Wrap-Up

I know some of you have been a little perplexed on what to do with key words in Old Testament books. Let’s face it, in the New Testament key words are usually much more of a slam dunk. Right now I’m writing a study on Galatians and having to tell my students to dial it down on key words because there are so many theologically packed words in the text that we’re studying. To mark them all would be to color the page a rainbow. Key words and phrases in the Old Testament can be a little more elusive at times. Today I’ll be tracing the phrases that focus on God making Himself known throughout the pages of Exodus. I hope this will help you get a little more of a picture on how paying attention to key phrases over an expanded portion of text can help us better understand what we’re reading.

I did make a comment in the video about some material that is coming up in Cookies 2 — part of it, the account of Rahab, will actually be coming up in our current study. It’s the Philistine material that is on the docket for the next round.

Here are the questions to get us rolling today:
• What are some life triggers that cause you to forget what you know about God?
• What are the implications of internalizing and submitting to the truth about who God is?

Looking forward to hearing from you this week!

Week Five Wrap-Up

It’s been a crazy couple of weeks for me and I am looking forward to a Thursday of quiet study and time in the Word. There’s nothing I love more than days when I can relax in God’s Word without the pressure of “producing.” That’s one of the reasons I’m always preaching “flex” in Bible study—because I know the joy of being in the Word without having to “show” something for it. I hope you’re finding that kind of joy as we’re studying together.

Here are our starter questions to get the discussion rolling this week:

• Do you tend to run ahead like Moses at age 40 (Here I am!) or lag behind like Moses at age 80 (Who am I?) and why?

• What is the most significant lesson you’ve learned this week from the life and times of Moses?

I look forward to hearing your voice in the discussion!

Week Four Wrap-Up

Can you believe we’re closing in on the half-way mark of Cookies, Part 1? With the Genesis narrative that we’ve just finished up, we’re establishing a firm foundation for understanding the Bible as a whole. As we move forward, we’ll continue to review, but for now be encouraged at the progress we’ve made so far!

Here are a couple of questions to kick off our discussion:
• When temptation comes at you day after day, how do you handle it?
• Joseph clearly was not a man of grudges. What, if anything, do you need to let go of this week?

I always look forward to your biggest takeaway of the week and other discussion topics that might be on your mind!

Look forward to hearing from you soon!

Week Three Wrap-Up

God . . . Creation . . . Adam and Eve . . . Cain and Abel . . . Seth . . . Enoch . . . Noah . . . Ham, Shem and Japheth . . . Tower of Babel . . . Abraham and Sarah . . . Isaac and Rebekah . . . Jacob and Rachel and Leah . . . Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah . . .

Are you getting the flow of the narrative? The more you read, the more you review, the more and more it will stick! Before you know it, you’ll be able to stand on your head and recite the characters backwards. Okay, maybe that’s oversell, but at least you should be able to handle the reciting backwards part. 😉

I’m on the road for the next few days, but will do my best to keep up with the discussion. Here are the questions to start us off:

• Which biblical character do you most relate with and why?

• What did you learn this week about God’s sovereignty even in dealing with imperfect and disobedient people?

• What has been your biggest takeaway truth or point of application this week?

Looking forward to hearing from you!