Indian River Baptist Church
I’ve fallen very far behind in writing lesson summaries, but we have spent the last few weeks in the books of 1 and 2 Samuel. We have seen Samuel’s faithful ministry as a judge over Israel, we’ve seen Israel’s rejection of the Lord’s reign over them by asking for a king, we’ve seen Saul’s (the…
As we move forward in the story of Scripture, we come to the book of Leviticus. Leviticus is always a hard book for the church today to grapple with because so much of it involves laws of sacrifices, festivals, and purity laws that we believe do not apply to Christians today (see Acts 15). So…
Continue Reading Story of Scripture: Holiness (Introduction to Leviticus)
After Moses’ encounter with the Lord and his glory in Exodus 34, we see that the book moves into a rather large final section in which the Lord gives Moses more commands about how Israel should live in their covenant with him. The majority of the remainder of the book focuses on instructions for building…
This week we continued in discussing questions submitted by the students. The two questions we looked at were not exactly crucial in understanding how to live the Christian walk faithfully. In fact, the answer to both questions is really, “We don’t/can’t know.” Even so, they were still fun to look at and think about how…
For the last couple of weeks, we have been answering questions that were anonymously submitted by the teens at IRBC. This week, we looked at several questions that focus on aspects of the early events of Scripture and history of the earth. The first question was, “How was God just there before anything?” This question…
As we dig into the different virtues that make up the Fruit of the Spirit, we see that the first one in the list is love. We probably will not spend a whole week on each virtue, but love is at the core of what it means to be a follower of Jesus, so it…
