Helping you see Jesus as the Good, the True, and the Beautiful
Without a doubt, the most influential innovation of the second half of the 20th century was the internet. So much of our modern world is powered by this tool, but many of you don’t know where this technology came from. As long as you are stocked up on cat memes…
As we saw earlier this week, we as Christians don’t get the main portion of our beliefs about the second coming of Christ from that sometimes cryptic book at the back of our Bibles. Rather, we allow the whole counsel of God’s word to teach us and we learned from…
As the 1970s came to a close, it was easy to see that the world particularly the Middle-East was on the verge of war again and America was struggling to maintain its image as the paragon of freedom and prosperity. Many had become disillusioned by the wars, protests, and political…
Like I said yesterday, there are a lot of people who get their picture of what is going to happen at Jesus’ second coming from the somewhat cryptic book at the end of our Bibles. However, Jesus spoke on numerous occasions about his second coming and I think we should…
When the end times is mentioned, many people immediately want to turn in their Bibles to the Book of Revelation. However, this is a mistake. To see the book of Revelation as some sort of cryptic map of future events is to miss its importance to its original audience. The…
In an English village, late in the eighteenth century, stood a humble workshop. Over its door, a sign announced, “Secondhand shoes bought and sold.” Inside, the shoemaker, William Carey, repaired a neighbor’s boot or, when time allowed, continued his study of Latin and Greek. Over the workbench was a crude…
[responsivevoice_button] To end this school year, we will look at our final of the 11 foundational doctrines, the Second Coming. This is a topic that usually elicits one of two responses. You have those that fit into one of the well-defined camps (we will talk about those more this week)…
[responsivevoice_button] Our discussions have brought us into the 1960s and this is the decade that saw the major victories in the Civil Rights Movement. However, you should not think that this movement began in the 1960s, it didn’t even begin in the 1940s or 50s. Efforts to improve the quality…
The reading below comes from “Church History in Plain Language” by Bruce L. Shelley. At the opening of the Age of Progress, the greatest power in English religious life was the evangelical movement, sparked and spread by John Wesley and George Whitefield. The chief marks of the movement were its…
If you didn’t finish it yesterday, open the Student Guide and fill in the blanks as you watch the lesson. You do not need to turn this in, but you can use it on the quiz below. Complete the open note quiz below. [ays_quiz id=’27’]
Watch the video below and comment on one of the excesses or errors that became evident in the Second Great Awakening and also one positive thing that came from this period.
Open the Student Guide and fill in the blanks as you watch the lesson. Answer one of the discussion questions on page 8 of the Student guide in the comments below.
Open the Student Guide and fill in the blanks as you watch the lesson. Which of the five purposes of the church listed on page 7 of your packet seems the most important to you? Are these our eternal purposes? What will change when we get to heaven?
Open the Student Guide and fill in the blanks as you watch the lesson. Looking at the seven characteristics of the koinonia fellowship, which of these is most important to you personally? Leave your comments below.
How did we get from a Protestantism based upon theology and confession like traditional Lutheranism and Calvinism to the modern idea of Christianity with a focus on personal devotion and individual sanctification that we see in the preaching of Whitefield. This shift towards Pietism is the missing link. Watch the…
Please read Story of Christianity, “Eastern Orthodoxy in the Early Modern Period” pages 299-305. Answer the questions below that correspond with your reading. Important to Know: The Orthodox Church in the United States is relatively small in comparison with other religious groups perhaps numbering in the range of one million…
If you need more time to finish the video and the student guide, please use part of today’s class to do that. Download the student guide here. Please note the Quiz at the bottom of this page. You may use your study guides from this week to complete it. No…
Please download the student guide found here. Fill in the blanks as you watch the video below. Note: There is a list of answers to the fill in the blanks on the last page of the PDF. Today, I would like you to put your answer to Discussion Question 3,…
If you were unable to get through the video yesterday, then please take today’s class to complete the study guide. Download the student guide here. Fill in the blanks as you watch the video below. Please note: There is a different discussion question for the comment today. Note: There is…
[responsivevoice_button] The Great Awakening also had a powerful political dimension, particularly in the southern colonies. The Anglican faith had long nurtured the old ties between the colonies and the Mother Country. Baptists and Methodists, however, felt no such connection. Moreover, as the new sects emphasized personal belief and action over…
Please download the student guide found here. Fill in the blanks as you watch the video below. Note: There is a list of answers to the fill in the blanks on the last page of the PDF. If you run out of time during this class period, don’t worry, I’ll…
[responsivevoice_button] The traditional religions of Great Britain’s North American colonies—Puritanism in New England and Anglicanism farther south—had difficulty maintaining their holds over the growing population. The main reason for this was that the frontier kept pushing further west, and the building of churches almost never kept up with this westward…
Please read Story of Christianity, “Deism, Enlightenment, and Revolution” pages 294-298. Answer the questions below that correspond with your reading. Important to Know: The words atheism and agnosticism are forms of Greek words and the prefix a, which means “no” or “none.” Theos is the Greek word for “God,” and…
<== Previous Lesson Don’t forget to complete your problem of evil fictional conversations and submit them to homework drop or send them to my email. We’ve discussed some heavy topics this week and I want to leave you on a positive note. When we talk about the problem of evil,…
<== Previous Lesson Some of you may have rolled your eyes yesterday as we were talking about spiritual beings. After all, we live in an age of particle accelerators, microchips, and organ transplants. Aren’t the Devil and demons just medieval superstitions created to scare naughty children and illiterate peasants? This…