Category Archives: Adult Bible Classes

John’s Gospel: Chapter 1:1-3 (“the Word”)

Posted on November 9, 2012 by Jay F Guin

(John 1:1 ESV) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The “Word” translates logos, meaning most literally “word” but also a “command.” The Ten Commandments were sometimes referred as the … Continue reading →

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John’s Gospel: Chapter 1:1-5 (“The light shines in the darkness”)

Posted on November 8, 2012 by Jay F Guin

(John 1:1-5 ESV) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not … Continue reading →

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John’s Gospel: Introduction, Continued

Posted on November 7, 2012 by Jay F Guin

John is a natural follow up to the Creation 2.0 series. After all, if it’s God’s purpose to restore the Creation to Eden and to restore mankind to the image of God — an image modeled by Jesus — then there’s … Continue reading →

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John’s Gospel: “Who Is this Son of Man”? Introduction

Posted on November 1, 2012 by Jay F Guin

(John 12:34 ESV) So the crowd answered him, “We have heard from the Law that the Christ remains forever. How can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?” Beginning in … Continue reading →

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John’s Gospel: Handout for John 1:1-18

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Jay F Guin

PORTRAITS OF JESUS Lesson One  Introduction: Purpose of John (John 20:30-31) Purpose of this class (John 12:34) “Who is this ‘Son of Man’?”

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John’s Gospel: Questions for Chapter 1

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Jay F Guin

[David Bearden, the new pulpit minister for the University Church of Christ, has kindly offered to provide questions and other supplementary materials for those teaching this class. To place things in a useful order in the column on the right, … Continue reading →

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Creation 2.0: Shepherding 2.0, Part 7 (Further on “Elder”)

Posted on September 8, 2012 by Jay F Guin

We all know the story of God sending quail to the Israelites to provide them meat to eat in the desert. But much less well known is that God responded to the complaints of the people by ordaining 70 elders for … Continue reading →

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Creation 2.0: Shepherding 2.0, Part 6 (Further on “Heal”)

Posted on September 7, 2012 by Jay F Guin

I want to share a few notes that didn’t make it into the earlier posts. “Sick” in the Jewish mind In Ezekiel 34, God says to Israel — (Eze 34:4 NET) You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, … Continue reading →

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Creation 2.0: Supplemental Reading and a Closing Thought or Two

Posted on August 31, 2012 by Jay F Guin

I’d just finished writing this series when two marvelous posts by other authors came to my attention. These are too good not to include in the lesson material and should be read by the teachers. And they are welcome to … Continue reading →

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Creation 2.0: God’s Cosmic Plan, Part 2

Posted on August 30, 2012 by Jay F Guin

God’s cosmic plan, dating back to the foundations of the Creation, is for us to be saved so that we’ll do certain works that he prepared for us. What works? He begins to explain in — (Eph 4:11-12 ESV)  11 … Continue reading →

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