The Story Guides

This week we cover our last chapter in The Story. (A big congratulations if you made it all the way through!!) Chapter 31 deals with the end times, described in the last book of the Bible, Revelation. As always, I’ve attached a study guide which provides a summary to this week’s readings and some questions to consider as you read Chapter 31.

If you prefer to listen to this week’s chapter instead of reading it, here is the link to the audio version:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dsjp4PQpelY

This Sunday we cover Chapter 30 in The Story, which deals with Paul’s final days. As always, I’ve attached a study guide which provides a summary to this week’s readings and some questions to consider as you read Chapter 30.

If you prefer to listen to this week’s chapter instead of reading it, here is the link to the audio version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmerTKPLxv8

This week we cover Chapter 29 in The Story, which deals with Paul’s missionary journeys. As always, I’ve attached a study guide which provides a summary to this week’s readings and some questions to consider as you read Chapter 29.

This week we will cover Chapter 28 in The Story, which deals with the early church. This post contains a study guide which provides a summary to this week’s readings and some questions to consider as you read Chapter 28. The World of the New Testament Church is a map which shows the geographic places mentioned in the next few chapters we’ll be reading.

This Sunday we cover two chapters (but they are two chapters we’re all pretty familiar with, so they should be a pretty quick read) — Jesus’ death and resurrection in Chapters 26 and 27 of The Story.

As we continue with Chapter 25 of The Story, we are nearing the end of Jesus’ ministry. We’ll look at claims that Jesus made about who he was, how he changed his followers understanding of what it meant to be the Messiah, and the question he asks all of those who want to follow him — “Who do you say that I am?”

We are now well into the New Testament in The Story. This coming Sunday we’ll look at Chapter 24, which contains some of Jesus’ most famous teaching — The Sermon on the Mount, the parables of the good samaritan and the prodigal son, and the Lord’s Prayer. We’ll also look at some miracles like the stilling of the storm, the raising of a young girl from the dead. And as you read, consider the ever widening rift between Jesus and the religious elite. Why are they so mad at Jesus? Why are they plotting to kill him?

After taking the summer off, we’re back into The Story for the next 8 weeks, looking at Jesus life, death and resurrection, and then focusing on the early church. We’ll first consider Jesus ministry and teachings and then see how this carpenter from Nazareth who was killed as an enemy of Rome, started a movement which changed the world and continues to this day.

This week is our last week in the Old Testament and we look at Chapter 21 in The Story which is all about the efforts to rebuild the people and the walls around Jerusalem after  the exiles returned to Judah. If you’d like to go right to the source, you can read Ezra 7, Nehemiah 1-2, 4, and 6-8 and Malachi 1-4. 

This week is our second last week in the Old Testament and we look at Chapter 20 in The Story, the story of Esther. Like Daniel, this story describes the intrigue and conflict involved as the Jews live in foreign courts. One of the fascinating things about this book in the Bible – it is the only one that never explicitly mentions God. And yet we see God all over this story.  If you’d like to go right to the source, the entire story of Esther is found in the biblical book of Esther, chapters 1-9.