Scripture: Genesis 1:26–31; 2:8–19 Background: This discussion material is taken from Chapter XI of The Bible and the Life of the Christian. This chapter represents a fine effort to furnish us with a Biblical, Christian perspective with respect to the most important subject of man’s cultural activity. By culture “mankind’s intentional, free, controlling labor of […]
Scripture: Deuteronomy 6; Ephesians 4:11–16 Background: Education as the pathway to success is a more emphatic consideration than ever before, now that an increased labor force and rapidly developing automation seem to be threatening us with wide-spread and virtually incurable unemployment. This means that the real character of the school is something we ought to […]
SCRIPTURE: Deuteronomy 11:10–21; Proverbs 3 Background: By this time the winter is upon most of us with its cold days and even colder nights. How rich we are in having homes which are heated. Here we and our children enjoy the comforts to which we have grown altogether too accustomed. No scene seems to evoke […]
SCRIPTURE: I Samuel 2:27–36; Colossians 3:15–25 Background: Last week we noted how important it is to take not of the “temperature” within our homes. Their warmth or chill is to be measured not first of all by the affection between parents and children but rather by the love which believers have for their Lord and […]
Scripture: Ephesians 1:15–23 Ephesians 4:1–16 Background: The relationship of the Church to the Kingdom of God is a basic item in our Christian view of life. Chapter 5 of The Bible and the Life of the Christian is packed with significant statements on this problem, and we urge discussion groups to get and study this […]
Scripture: Hebrews 10:19–31 III John Background: Just what is the Church? How are denominations related to the Church? Is the Church the sum-total of all the existing church groups which label themselves church? Is the church as we live in it and are members of it really essential to our salvation? Asking these questions will furnish […]
Scripture: Psalm 127 Ephesians 5:31, 33 Background: The home roots in marriage, which according to the Bible is the unique life-long union between one man and one woman recognized as such by both God and men. Usually, and that not alone in legal circles, it is described as a “contract.” Many especially in our world […]
Scripture: I Corinthians 7:25–40 Background: We are taking a “strange” Scripture as our point of departure. Peter Marshall, famed Washington, D.C, preacher of some years ago, delighted in welcoming newlyweds to what he called “the highest halls of human happiness.” How do you suppose he meant these words? Prove from Scripture that God desires and delights […]
“…with all prayer and supplication praying at all seasons in the Spirit, and watching thereunto in all perseverance and supplication for all the saints, and on my behalf, that utterance may be given unto me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador […]
“And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God…” Ephesians 6:17 The helmet is the only article in the military equipment of ancient soldiers which has survived to […]