The Leader Guide provides process guidance for weekly group sessions. The Leader Guide understands the role of leader as facilitator of small-group sessions. Procedures for guiding sessions include: directions for using related video segments, and questions for discussion. Explore the writings of the New Testament using the story of Jesus as the starting point. This survey of the testament looks at how the early church took ownership of and was shaped by the story of Jesus and how the church learned how to develop as disciples and create communities of faith. Participants find a deeper conversation with the writers of the New Testament and a renewal of our commitment to be shaped — personally and communally — by the story of Jesus. The study is accessible for adults with little prior Bible experience. In the weekly video segments, listen as scholars fascinate you with facts and information that opens new understanding and enlightenment for your group. In the second video, sit in on a table conversation between guest scholars and debate key issues in the text. Participants gain a deeper understanding and appreciation of the New Testament as an integral part of the Christian Bible and a renewed discovery of our identity in God and God's vision for all things. This eight-week study includes a participant book outlining daily reading assignments for group preparations, a leader guide suggesting discussion activities for use in the 60–90-minute weekly meeting, and a video component providing interpretation and context for the biblical texts. Sessions: <ol>
<li>Jesus Calls Us Into God's Redemption Story</li> <li>Jesus Calls Us to a Transformed Life</li> <li>Jesus Calls Us to Minister to a Hostile World</li> <li>Jesus Calls Us to Complex Communities of Faith</li> <li>Jesus Calls Us to Serve One Another</li> <li>Jesus Calls Us to a New Relationship With Tradition</li> <li>Jesus Calls Us to Live in Light of His Coming Again</li> <li>Jesus Calls Us to Experience the Gifts of His Dying and Rising</li> </ol>

Invitation to the New Testament: Leader Guide: A Short-Term DISCIPLE Bible Study (Disciple Short Term Studies S)

Religion & Spirituality

DeSilva, David

Christian Books & Bibles

ABINGDON PRESS *

Explore the writings of the New Testament using the story of Jesus as the starting point. This survey of the testament looks at how the early church took ownership of and was shaped by the story of Jesus and how the church learned how to develop as disciples and create communities of faith. Participants find a deeper conversation with the writers of the New Testament and a renewal of our commitment to be shaped — personally and communally — by the story of Jesus. The study is accessible for adults with little prior Bible experience. In the weekly video segments, listen as scholars fascinate you with facts and information that opens new understanding and enlightenment for your group. In the second video, sit in on a table conversation between guest scholars and debate key issues in the text. Participants gain a deeper understanding and appreciation of the New Testament as an integral part of the Christian Bible and a renewed discovery of our identity in God and God's vision for all things. This eight-week study includes a participant book outlining daily reading assignments for group preparations, a leader guide suggesting discussion activities for use in the 60–90-minute weekly meeting, and a video component providing interpretation and context for the biblical texts. Sessions: <ol>
<li>Jesus Calls Us Into God's Redemption Story</li> <li>Jesus Calls Us to a Transformed Life</li> <li>Jesus Calls Us to Minister to a Hostile World</li> <li>Jesus Calls Us to Complex Communities of Faith</li> <li>Jesus Calls Us to Serve One Another</li> <li>Jesus Calls Us to a New Relationship With Tradition</li> <li>Jesus Calls Us to Live in Light of His Coming Again</li> <li>Jesus Calls Us to Experience the Gifts of His Dying and Rising</li> </ol>

Invitation to the New Testament: Participant Book (A Short-term DISCIPLE Bible Study)

Paul and the Macedonians is the fifth in the series The Life and Letters of Paul. This study explores the letters to the Thessalonians and the Philippians. 
Drawing on the historical data about the Macedonian congregations and their unique relationship to the Greco-Roman culture and to Paul, the author explores the driving forces behind Paul's correspondence to them and how Paul hoped to support them in their lives in Christ.The study has six sessions: <li>The Macedonian Letters in Context </li>
<li>Sustaining Faith in a Hostile World </li>
<li>As We Await Christ's Coming </li>
<li>The Day of the Lord </li>
<li>The Beloved Saints in Philippi </li>
<li>Dispute, Division; Harmony, Unity </li> To see another group study offered by Cokesbury, go to the Adult Bible Studies website.

Paul and the Macedonians: The Life and Letters of Paul

In the blank pages between Malachi and Matthew, the course of an entire nation was changed . . . His brother, the high priest Honiah, enjoyed the authority of the high priesthood, and all important decisions needed his approval. But it was Jason who was shaping the future of Jerusalem and with it, all Judea. He breathed in again, imagining that he could feel the wave of destiny impelling him forward toward his vision as he exhaled . . . The Greeks have taken over the world, but Jerusalem is still the same backwater city Jason has always known. He wants to help his hometown rise to a new age of prosperity and influence. If that means stretching the terms of the city’s divine covenant, so be it. But how far is he willing to go to achieve Greek greatness for this Jewish city? It will take the willingness of a handful of Jews to die rather than violate the covenant in order to turn the tide back to God. Written by an internationally recognized expert in the period between the Testaments, Day of Atonement invites readers into Judea during the tumultuous years leading up to the Maccabean Revolt. It was this pivotal decade that reminded Jews of the centrality of the covenant to their national security and taught them that the covenant was worth dying for. The story is so foundational, it is still told every year at Hanukkah. The lessons learned during this turbulent time also shed light on just what was at stake in the ministry of Jesus, whose radical message seemed to threaten the covenant once again. Day of Atonement joins the perennially successful novels Pontius Pilate and The Flames of Rome by renowned historian Paul Maier on Kregel’s premier list of captivating and historically accurate biblical novels.

Day of Atonement: A Novel of the Maccabean Revolt

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Kregel Publications

This one volume commentary on the entire Bible was written by more than 40 scholars from the broad range of Wesleyan denominations, including The United Methodist Church, The Church of the Nazarene, The Church of God (Anderson), The Church of God (Cleveland), The Wesleyan Church, The Free Methodist Church, and The Salvation Army. It is the only specifically Wesleyan Bible commentary available and assists pastors in sermon preparation, small group leaders in lesson preparation, and laypeople in Bible study. Joel B. Green, Professor of New Testament Interpretation at Fuller Seminary, called this commentary, “The Wesley Study Bible +++.” The commentary form will allow for a much greater exploration of Wesleyan themes and theology than a Study Bible ever could.

Wesley One Volume Commentary

Oropeza, B. J.

Johnson, Andy

Arnold, Bill T.

Flemming, Dean

Byassee, Jason

Bauer, David R.

Thompson, Richard P.

Schenck, Kenneth

Hawk, L. Daniel

Reese, Ruth Anne

Riley, Stephen

Gupta, Nijay K.

Anderson, Kevin L

Winslow, Karen Strand PhD

Braaten, Laurie J

Henrichs-Tarasenkova, Nina S

Smith, Mitzi Jane

Bunn, Daniel D

McCabe, David Randolph

Green, Timothy Mark

Schlimm, Matthew

Coleson, Joseph E

Vondergeest, Craig A

Cornell, Richard E

Pokrifka, Junia

Holland, Drew

Burroughs, Presian

Levicheva, Larisa

Joseph, Abson P

Nicholson, Suzanne Beth

Martin, Lee R.

Hahn, Roger

Burke, Donald Ernest

Helms, Kristin

Smith, David F Prof

Dongell, Joseph Robert

Schmitt, Mary Kathleen

Wall, Robert W.

Hill, Amelia

Nienhuis, David Robert

Strawn, Brent A.

Kelle, Brad E.

Soza, Joel R.

Russell, Brian D.

HOWELL,James

Hellenistic Greek society offered many advantages to the Jew who was willing to relax Torah for the sake of easier relations with the dominant culture. 4 Maccabees was written to reassure Jewish readers that Torah was in fact the sole path to the perfection of the virtues honoured in Greek culture, as it freed the diligent devotee from slavery to the desire, emotion and the domination of pain and pleasure. In brief compass, deSilva provides a detailed look at the rhetorical and philosophical strategy of the author of 4 Maccabees, who redirects the hearers' desire for honour and advancement toward those commitments that will preserve his Jewish subculture from assimilation. This often neglected text becomes an engaging window into Hellenistic Judaism and into some of the concerns that were formative influences on the early church.

4 Maccabees (Guides to the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha)

Sheffield Academic+press

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