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Advent bible study for small groups11/17/2023 ![]() What kind of printable Bible study resources are there? And the good news is that there are plenty of options to choose from to make sure you find the one best for you!īefore we dive in, if you are looking to really up your Bible study routine, be sure to also check out these additional premium Bible study resources. Free Bible Study Printable ResourcesĮveryone learns differently which is why you need to find the right Bible study worksheets and other printables that work for your particular learning style. This Study Through the Bible Course is based on a sermon series by Matt Woodley.This post may contain affiliate links, please see our full disclosure for more information. Who is this bearer of Shalom? Where will he come from? Advent answers those questions. Someone is coming, they believed, who will open the door to peace. For the Jews, the hope of shalom was wrapped up in a person. It meant that people would love one another. It meant all brokenness would be set right and healed. It meant the rich would no longer devour the poor. Shalom meant not only inner peace or spiritual peace it meant wholeness and completeness throughout all creation. They called it shalom, Hebrew for "peace." In the Bible, God's peace-shalom-meant much more than simply the absence of war. The ancient Jews had a word to describe better days. The Messiah brings shalom and calls us to join him. This is the hope of Advent, that God has done something in Christ that changes everything. This is not what we deserve, but this is the love God offers us. The picture of God's love at the end of this little book is designed to crack open our hearts with its beauty. According to the philosopher Simone Weil, a brilliant French woman who died in 1943, there are only two things that can crack open the human heart: suffering and beauty. It may not be your favorite book in the Bible (perhaps you've never even heard of it), but the last half of chapter three contains a wonderful, moving, tender, and fiercely strong description of God's love. Near the back of your Old Testament, you'll find a tiny book called Zephaniah. Nothing can keep us from the joy of the risen Christ. You weren't made to coast in your spiritual apathy. So God sent Malachi to say: You were made for better days. Or in the words of Malachi, they needed to meet the God who is like a "refiner's fire" ( Malachi 3:2). When God's people were treating their spiritual lives with careless contempt, when they were unmotivated and uninspired, bored and distracted, yawning in the face of God, they needed a serious wake-up call. ![]() His name is Malachi the prophet, whose message is in the last book of the Old Testament. This study focuses on a passage in Scripture from "The Hammer" of the Old Testament. God allows suffering for our holiness and happiness. ![]() At Advent, we are invited to a journey of better days, a journey of real and lasting hope. But that good future isn't just abstract, because it reaches in and transforms us in the present. There's something up ahead, around the corner, in sight, and it's good. What is hope? It's a vision for better days that changes us in the present. Our hope in Jesus will work in and through our lives.Įvery day we use that small, magical word-hope. Use this Bible study course to lead up to Christmas-or use it Christmas week to make the holiday more meaningful. The prophets Jeremiah, Malachi, Zephaniah, and Micah all proclaim the Christ that was to come. God's nature didn't change, nor did ours, and he had our redemption in mind all the time. The Christmas story began in the Old Testament.
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