Weekly Lesson for July 28, 2013
Guest speaker: Dr. David Hionides
Assistant Director, Office of Institutional Research & Effectiveness
Dallas Theological Seminary
“All of Scripture is About Christ”
Luke 24:13-32
Gen 11:1-9
Weekly Lesson for July 21, 2013
Guest speaker: Ryland Whitehorn
Minister of Education, First Baptist Dallas
Bible Study: “How to Survive Life’s Unhappy Endings”
Weekly Lesson for July 14, 2013
Guest speaker: Dr. Matthew McKellar
Associate Professor of Preaching/Chair of the Preaching Department
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Bible Study 07/14/13 “Great Storm-Greater God!” Jonah 1:4-16
Introduction:
How does God operate when His will is opposed? This question leads us again to the issue of God’s providence. This morning we will observe His special intervention to accomplish His purpose. He perseveres with and preserves His people. He uses a storm to deal with His disobedient messenger.
I. Marvel at the management of God (4-7)
– “…hurled great wind…great storm”
– “ship thought itself to be broken”
– sailors fear, cry and hurl
– after Jonah sleeps God repeats
– Jonah wins the lottery!
II. Consider the commitment of God (8-9)
– Jonah is “stormed” with questions
– preaching to pagans
– “…the Lord God…who made the sea…”
III. Recognize the rebuke from God (10-16)
– “What have you done?”
– Jonah’s disobedience endangers others
– Who runs away from the God of the sea on a ship?
– Jonah: willing to die to avoid obedience
IV. Apply the truth of Jonah’s God
– See the sign in the storm
– The storm surfaces your real commitment
– Determine to abandon insanity
– Make obedience your consuming passion
– Another “sleeper” in a storm…
Weekly Lesson for July 7, 2013
Guest speaker: Dr. Matthew McKellar
Associate Professor of Preaching/Chair of the Preaching Department
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Bible Study 07/07/13 Jonah 1:1-3 “Great Fish-Greater God!”
Introduction
-the common response when hearing the word “Jonah”
-“Men have been looking so hard at the great fish that they have failed to see the great God.” Morgan
-4 chapters, 48 verses, 3 verses fish, 45 verses God
-1308 words indicate that the providence of God is not a theological abstraction
I. Examine the historical reality
-the word “happened” to Jonah-personal call
-2 Kings 14:25 and Gath-Heper-near Nazareth
-allegory, parable or historical?
-The “sign” of Jonah in Matt. 12:38-41
II. Analyze the specific assignment
-arise, go, cry
-unusual-on foreign turf
-Nineveh-the cruel enemy- Nahum 3:1-4
-stench in the nostrils of God
III. Observe the futile defiance
-“…rose up to flee the faces…”
-attempt to escape the omnipresent
-the reason for it: misplaced allegiance
IV. Affirm the greatness and freedom of God
-count on God to prevail
-don’t begrudge the mercy of God
-commit to the commission
So What?
-in light of God’s greatness and compassion, mobilize to extend the message of His mercy
-“And Jonah stalked to his shaded seat and waited for God to come around to his way of
thinking. And God is still waiting for a hosts of Jonahs in their comfortable houses to come
around to His way of loving.” Carlisle
Weekly Lesson for June 30, 2013
Guest speaker: Lt. Gen. Mark Shackleford
Military Deputy, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition
The Pentagon, Washington, D.C.
“Personal Testimony”
