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Monday, August 12, 2013

Bible Class!

The class I am the very most excited about is our daily Bible class.  How can the kids be expected to be DOING stuff that they don't even KNOW?

Anyone who has ever had counseling with me will probably recognize so many of the topics that I am hoping and planning to cover this school year with the girls.  All of those years of providing counseling for others and now I get to provide that content, refined and finessed by my time helping others, to my very own children.  I am so blessed to have been able to have that training ground.  I am so excited.

So here is my weekly plan for teaching.  I don't really have curriculum.  I'm just gonna teach the girls from the Bible, like I would do if I was discipling them through weekly biblical counseling and counseling homework assignments.

It's a lot of content, so the scope is going to be fairly elementary.  It will be like a 30,000 foot flyover of the big picture of the purpose of life as a follower of Christ.


  1. God is the main character. God / The Plan - His Exaltation / Angels / Why we are learning the character of God in the mornings
  2. Satan tries to foil God's plan.  Satan / The Conflict / Demons /  Hell
  3. God gave humans their purpose.  Gen 1:26-28 - The Mandate / Image and Likeness / Fruitful and Multiply, Fill the Earth, Rule, Subdue / animals and plants purpose is to be subdued and ruled. 
  4. Humans fail to live God’s purpose.  The Fall
  5. PROJECT WORK / REVIEW / TEST
  6. God promised a solution to human’s failure.  The Promised Messiah / The WAY, TRUTH, LIFE / the High King
  7. Humans resist living out God’s purpose.  The Tower of Babel / Refusal to live the purpose / Downward Spiral 
  8. God invites us into relationship with Him.  Ex 19 - 20
  9. God wants his people to live in a way that points to Him.  Deut 4:1-24
  10. PROJECT WORK / REVIEW / TEST
  11. God wants us to be different.  I Sam 8:20 - Be like the other nations ;  What is rebellion?
  12. God wants us to be happy.  Deut 30:15-20/ Recap Ex 19 and Deut 4 / Rebellion / Authority
  13. Humans choose misery.  The terrible effects of sin / Rom 3:23; Rom 6:23; Rom 5:8
  14. Jesus is the Messiah that humans have been waiting for.  Jesus is here / The Promised Messiah has come to provide the way, who is the truth, and who is life - COMMON CONFESSION
  15. PROJECT WORK / REVIEW / TEST
  16. Jesus rescues us from misery.  Eph 2:8-9
  17. We are so thankful that Jesus bought us into his family.  I Peter 1:18-19, Phil 2:5-11, II Cor 5:14-15
  18. We are royalty in God’s family.  Rev 1:5-6; Rev 5:9-10; Ruling / Reigning 
  19. God gives his family two specific jobs.  The Great Command - Matt 22:36-40
  20. PROJECT WORK / REVIEW / TEST
  21. We are commanded to Love God.  Loving God - I John 5:3
  22. We are commanded to Love Others.  Loving Others - I Cor 13:4-8
  23. We are Christ’s bride.  Being part of the church, the bride of Christ, the Messiah
  24. God talks to us through the Bible.  COMMON COMMUNICATION - Knowing how to use the Bible / gaining wisdome / respecting authority / being submissive
  25. PROJECT WORK / REVIEW / TEST
  26. God’s family lives differently.  COMMON CONTRAST - we live different than the world / Vine and Branches / Walking in the Light / Eph 4:22-24 / Know and then Do; 
  27. We will reap the consequences of our choices.  COMMON CONTRAST PART 2 - Psalm 23 - Two Paths Diagram; Choices / Consequences; Habits
  28. We are to keep the cross in our minds.  COMMON CONQUEST - living cross - centered
  29. God’s family hates God’s enemy.  COMMON CONFLICT - hating  and resisting Satan/ confessing sin to God and others / killing sin/ finding healing 
  30. PROJECT WORK / REVIEW / TEST
  31. God’s children do not live for themselves.  COMMON CONTRADICTION - denying self and living for others / eternal perspective
  32. God’s family is active in a local church.  Functions of the church (duty and desire, worship, spiritual disciplines, discipleship, fellowship, service, evangelism); 
  33. Life in the church - church discipline / baptism and the Lord’s Table
  34. God’s family longs for their High King to come reign forever.  COMMON CONSUMMATION - Longing for Christ / Rev 19; ruling and reigning 
  35. PROJECT / PROJECT COMPLETION AND PRESENTATION
  36. REVIEW / TEST
I CAN'T WAIT TO GET STARTED!!!!!


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