by Scott Risley | Dec 19, 2016 | Old Testament
Special thinks to Laura Hummell and Barbara Sliverman for this 22 page full color OT Timeline. We have this hanging on the wall in our home church to point to when we teach out of the Old Testament.
by Scott Risley | Feb 22, 2016 | Old Testament
Intro 1 The sayings of King Lemuel contain this message, which his mother taught him… This chapter was adapted from a guy named King Lemuel One of only a few chapters in Scripture we know was written by a woman (Granny Lemuel) We’re going to focus on the poem starting...
by Scott Risley | Feb 22, 2016 | Old Testament
I don’t have a teaching on this, but I do have extensive notes on this chapter which could be converted into a teaching. 1 Kings 20-22 – King Ahab I. Ahab’s Defense (20) At the end of ch. 19 God says that Hazael will be king of Aram and will execute God’s...
by Scott Risley | Feb 10, 2016 | Old Testament
Dropping the Baton Judges 1:1-2:10 Now What? 1:1 After Joshua died, the Israelites asked the LORD, “Who should lead the invasion against the Canaanites and launch the attack?” Since the book of Judges takes place after the book of Joshua, it is fitting that it opens...
by Scott Risley | Dec 4, 2015 | Old Testament
This is how our cell group studied through Eugene Merrill’s book The Word and the World. Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 1 Study Read the Preface by Yamauchi (skip the previous works by the authors) Chapter 1 Read...
by Scott Risley | Oct 9, 2015 | Old Testament
In the book of Deuteronomy God orders the Israelites to “utterly destroy” the people living in the land of Canaan. This command, known as “the ban,” is a major objection cited by critics of the Bible. Richard Dawkins, for example, refuses to debate William Lane Craig...