This is a study of the Bible as God’s Love Letter. Each week, the video gives a short overview of one section or theme of the Bible. The Study Questions provide an opportunity to dig deeper into a small section of scripture with reflection questions for individual or group study. The Video links will open the YouTube videos; the Study Question links will open printable pdfs.
Lesson 1 The Author Opening the Letter 1 The Author Video Study Questions
The Bible is the greatest love letter ever written. What we do with it depends on what we understand about the author. This lesson looks at who God the author says He is.
Lesson 2 The Chosen Opening the Letter 2 The Chosen Video Study Questions
In this lesson, we see the beginning of God’s chosen people. God chooses Abram, giving His promise and purpose for Abram. This promise and purpose extends to the church as well.
Lesson 3 The Law Opening the Letter 3 The Law Video Study Questions
This lesson summarizes the overarching narrative of the Old Testament, the history of God’s Chosen People, highlighting the repeated cycle of their faithfulness, disobedience, suffering, repentance, and deliverance. We see God’s faithfulness in His role as Father to wayward children and as Husband to wandering wife.
Lesson 4 The King Opening the Letter 4 The King Video Study Questions
God calls King David a man after His own heart. We see some of David’s successes, failures, and his prayer of repentance.
Lesson 5 The Prophets Opening the Letter 5 The Prophets Video Study Questions
Although King Solomon at first was faithful like his father David, he later turned away from the Lord, resulting in disobedience, division and even exile for the people of Israel. However, through his prophets, God promised return, restoration, and a Messiah whose kingdom would never end.
Lesson 6 The Promised Opening the Letter 6 The Promised Video Study Questions
The New Testament begins with the gospels, four biographies of Jesus. All four gospels emphasize that Jesus was not only God’s promised Messiah, but also, God’s love incarnate.
Lesson 7 The Healer Opening the Letter 7 The Healer Video Study Questions
Jesus, teaching and healing at the beginning of his ministry, was surrounded by eager crowds. On an urgent mission for an important man, in the midst of the pressing crowd, he healed and restored a desolate woman.
Lesson 8 The Giver Opening the Letter 8 The Giver Video Study Questions
Approached by various people with different motives, Jesus reveals hearts and invites followers. He welcomes the humble and corrects the proud, calling them to the Kingdom of God.
Lesson 9 The Lamb Opening the Letter 9 The Lamb Video Study Questions
When God rescued His chosen people from slavery in Egypt, they were saved from death by the blood of the Passover Lamb. We, too, have been rescued from death and slavery to sin by the blood of Jesus, the Lamb of God.
Lesson 10 The Covenant Opening the Letter 10 The Covenant Video Study Questions
God’s covenant with Abraham required circumcision of the flesh as a symbol of circumcised hearts. When His people broke that covenant, God made a new covenant through Christ, in which he circumcises our whole self.
Lesson 11 The Body Opening the Letter 11 The Body Video Study Questions
After Jesus’s resurrection, his small group of followers grew into his Church. The Church is the body of Jesus, made to express the love of God the way he did when he walked in the flesh.
Lesson 12 The Family Opening the Letter 12 The Family Video Study Questions
Jesus calls the Church to live in unity. He makes it possible by providing the foundation of this unity, addressing obstacles to unity, and offering characteristics of unity.
Lesson 13 The Vine Opening the Letter 13 The Vine Video Study Questions
Following Jesus doesn’t mean we are sinless Super-Christians. Instead, Jesus invites us to share his attitude of submission and dependence on his father, calling us to remain in him like a branch attached to a vine. When we remain in him, receiving his love and depending on his truth, we then can love one another and the world around us.
Lesson 14 The Cross Opening the Letter 14 The Cross Video Study Questions
Jesus warned his disciples that following him would include suffering. Sometimes suffering is a result of our sin, sometimes of our obedience, and other times, simply of living in a broken world. The apostles share their confidence that God offers hope and comfort even in our suffering.
Lesson 15 The Future Opening the Letter 15 The Future Video Study Questions
The Bible ends with the book of Revelation, promising that the oppressed will be rescued, all brokenness will be made whole, and the perfect Kingdom of God that Jesus ushered in will be fulfilled, but that’s not the end of God’s love letter. Not only is the Bible God’s written love letter and Jesus the incarnate love letter, you, too, are a letter. You, too, are meant to carry God’s message of love to the world.
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