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2025 Qtr 1 Wk 8 Free will, love and divine providence.jpg Key Text: “ ‘These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world’ ” (John 16:33, NKJV). Providence is the term used to describe God’s actio...

2025 Qtr 1 Wk 7 The Problem of Evil.jpg Key Text: “ ‘And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away’ ” (Revelation 21:4, NKJV). Perhaps the greatest problem facing Christian...

2025 Qtr 1 Wk 6 Gods love of justice.jpg Key Text: “ ‘But let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the Lord, exercising lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight’ says the Lord” (Jeremiah 9:24, NKJV). In the ancient Near E...

2025 Qtr 1 Wk 5 The Wrath of Divine Love.jpg Key Text: “But He, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and did not destroy them. Yes, many a time He turned His anger away, and did not stir up all His wrath” (Psalm 78:38, NKJV). Though God’s compassion is often celebrated, many find the i...

2025 Qtr 1 Wk 4 God is passionate and compassionate.jpg Key Text: “ ‘Can a woman forget her nursing child, and not have compassion on the son of her womb? Surely they may forget, yet I will not forget you’ ” (Isaiah 49:15, NKJV). Emotions are often viewed as undesirable and to be avoided. For some ...

2025 Qtr 1 Wk 3 To be pleasing to God.jpg Key Text: “The Lord your God in your midst, the Mighty One, will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing” (Zephaniah 3:17, NKJV). Imagine the following scenario: a five-year-old ch...

2025 Qtr 1 Wk 2 Covenantal Love.jpg Key Text: “Jesus answered and said to him, ‘If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him’ ” (John 14:23, NKJV). Many have been taught that the Greek word agape refers to a love that is u...

2025 Qtr 1 Wk 1 God loves freely.jpg Key Text : “ ‘I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely, for My anger has turned away from him’ ” (Hosea 14:4, NKJV). Though Peter had denied Jesus three times, just as Jesus had predicted (Matt. 26:34), these denials were not the end of the story. ...

2024 Qtr 4 - Wk 13 Epilogue Knowing Jesus and His Word.jpg Key Text: “ ‘You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me’ ” (John 5:39, NKJV). John’s Gospel, like Mark’s, ends with a meeting in Galilee. This final lesson on John deals wi...

2024 Qtr 4 - Wk 12 The Hour of Glory.jpg Key Text: “Then Pilate said to him, ‘So you are a king?’ Jesus answered, ‘You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice’ ” ...