Need a subject to teach next quarter, not getting any inspiration right now, any suggestions?
Preferably a text or guide available in Logos, (in keeping with the forum guidelines.)
What context? Seminary? Weekly bible study? Other?
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Weekly adult Sunday School
next quarter
Sounds like a college level class...
subject
Sounds like a topic more than a Bible book (my personal favorite--bringing Bible themes out through the study of its individual books)...
Not sure about texts or guides in Logos other than its powerful searching techniques & study guides, but maybe one of these 3 will trigger a thought in some entirely different direction ([:)]):
Blessings!
Ah....
My midweek bible class (tied up teaching confirmation on Sundays) has enjoyed a study of some of the minor prophets & the shorter pastoral letters. Hosea was particularly interesting, as were Philemon, 1-3 John, Jude, Titus. When I teach Bible, I usually use a Logos 1-volume commentary as a jumping-off point for my own comments. (My favorite Logos resource for that is Tom Constable's Notes--he was a Baptist seminary prof, & his notes cover the Bible. He buzzes every once in awhile on a dispensational line, but I just gloss over those parts 'cause he's usually so even-handed in his presentation of material.)
We're now in a class on prayer, using a number of Logos resources... My method is to highlight the parts I want to draw out prior to class; in class, we read the carefully selected material, process it together, reflect from experience, & move on... Class is loving it.
You could try Logos's new "Studies in Faithful Living" curriculum. Here's a Logos user's recent post about his review of it on his blog:
http://community.logos.com/forums/t/67260.aspx
Some interesting stuff so far, I will have to dwell for a time.
It's a bit of a tough situation, on the one hand I have a core group of students who love when I get deep in theology or original languages, and get down on me when I stray to just milk. But on the other, I also need to teach to some that would be better served with something lighter.
In a few years it will be better after the expansion, and I have my own classroom with a class designated as "advanced", but right now it's a conglomerate.
So: rock --> me <-- hard place
I was browsing through my Logos library, and came across this:
http://www.logos.com/product/2346/twelve-ordinary-men
I think it might be just right, especially since the denomination is retooling methodologies from outreach evangelism to discipleship (finally).
May I humbly suggest something to do with "The Feasts of YHWH."
These are not just "Jewish festivals," but the eternal appointed times (Gen 1:14 moedim) of our Creator Father, and His Blueprint from Redemption to Restoration.
This is a good starting point and foundation to understand Passover, Pentecost, and the Ingathering Harvest.
Here's some Logos ideas.
The Feasts of Israel Scott, Bruce 1997The Outpouring: Jesus in the Feasts of Israel McQuaid, Elwood 1990
God's Appointed Times: A Practical Guide for Understanding and Celebrating the Biblical Holidays Kasdan, Barney
Remember 1. context, context, context 2. Compare Scripture with Scripture.
Learn to distinguish what is Scripturally ordained seasons from what is unscriptural practices of unbelievers.
May our Eternal Father Yahweh and His Son Yahshua grant you Wisdom.
May I humbly suggest...
Thanks for the suggestion, but not really my cup of tea, as it were.
One suggestion is a Logos command:
FSD in <collection>
Personally have a shortcut for a Bible Background collection:
Facilitate Serendipitous Discovery in Bible Background
Keep Smiling [:)]
It looks like you've already found a great study, but I just had to mention an older but well known study that has recently been a blessing to me, "The Pursuit of Holiness", by Jerry Bridges. My first study with Logos, I picked it about 4-5 mos ago to use for a family bible study (my sister and her family, brother and his, and my mom -- whole family bible study). About a month after we finished, independently of our study(!), our church (ELFBC) picked the same book for a whole church bible study, service and life groups. I have been twice blessed to study this book. I've learned a lot during both studies and continue to learn. It may or may not be for you, but it is such a great resource that I had to take the opportunity to mention it.
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A farmer plows his field, sows the seed, and fertilizes and cultivates—all the while knowing that in the final analysis he is utterly dependent on forces outside of himself. He knows he cannot cause the seed to germinate, nor can he produce the rain and sunshine for growing and harvesting the crop. For a successful harvest, he is dependent on these things from God.
Yet the farmer knows that unless he diligently pursues his responsibilities to plow, plant, fertilize, and cultivate, he cannot expect a harvest at the end of the season. In a sense he is in a partnership with God, and he will reap its benefits only when he has fulfilled his own responsibilities.
Farming is a joint venture between God and the farmer. The farmer cannot do what God must do, and God will not do what the farmer should do.
We can say just as accurately that the pursuit of holiness is a joint venture between God and the Christian. No one can attain any degree of holiness without God working in his life, but just as surely no one will attain it without effort on his own part. God has made it possible for us to walk in holiness. But He has given to us the responsibility of doing the walking; He does not do that for us.
We Christians greatly enjoy talking about the provision of God, how Christ defeated sin on the cross and gave us His Holy Spirit to empower us to victory over sin. But we do not as readily talk about our own responsibility to walk in holiness. Two primary reasons can be given for this.
First, we are simply reluctant to face up to our responsibility. We prefer to leave that to God. We pray for victory when we know we should be acting in obedience.
The second reason is that we do not understand the proper distinction between God’s provision and our own responsibility for holiness. I struggled for a number of years with the question, “What am I to do myself, and what am I to rely on God to do?” Only as I came to see what the Bible teaches on this question, and then faced up to my own responsibility, did I see any progress in the “pursuit of holiness.”
Bridges, J. (1978). The pursuit of holiness (p. 9). Colorado Springs: Navpress.
Here's one you might like, read the table of contents to get ideas. You can even create your own main points to present to your congregation, I know I had to do that, especially since it's not really outlined, it's mainly manuscripts or written sermons on each point:
Thanks for the input,
I'm reading through MacArthur's book right now, good so far.
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