April 27, 2014 Sunday School Lesson

Isaiah 53:1-8 and Luke 24:25-31 and 44-53

Questions for Discussion and Thinking Further

1. How have sinners like sheep gone astray? How was Jesus like a sheep? 2. Why did Jesus suffer and die?

Questions for Discussion and Thinking Further

1. What reason did Jesus give to the two He talked to for their not believing in His resurrection? Do you think this reason might apply to some people today?

2. In addition to the eyewitness accounts they had heard about Jesus having risen from the dead, what other important evidence did Jesus give these two people in His efforts to convince them that He was alive?

3. What did Jesus do to help His disciples understand the Scriptures? What do we need to better understand the Scriptures today? 

Happy Resurrection Sunday

April 20, 2014 Sunday School Lesson

Sunday School Lesson 

Hosea 6:1-6 and Luke 24:1-12 

Questions for Discussion and Thinking Further

1. How might you describe God’s punishment when God designs it to be discipline for those who are His children?

2. Compare Hosea 6:1 — “Come, let us return to the LORD; for it is he who has torn, and he will heal us; he has struck down, and he will bind us up,” and Hebrews 12:5-6 — “And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as children — ‘My child, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, or lose heart when you are punished by him; for the Lord disciplines those whom he loves, and chastises every child whom he accepts’” (see Deuteronomy 8:5). 

Questions for Discussion and Thinking Further

1. What is one fact about Jesus’ resurrection that you remember from other books of the Bible that Luke does not include in these verses?

2. Why do you think the apostles would not believe the women?

 3. Why do you believe in Jesus’ resurrection? 

Let The Prophet Speak Conference

April 13, 2014 Sunday School Lesson

April 13, 2014

Jeremiah 23:1-6, Zechariah 6:9-15 and John 19:1-7 

Questions for Discussion and Thinking Further

What are some of the ways believers today can proclaim: “The LORD is our righteousness”? 

Question for Discussion and Thinking Further

Why is it important for the followers of Jesus Christ to study the Old Testament prophets even when they seem difficult to understand?

Questions for Discussion and Thinking Further

1. Why might it be important that Pilate found and declared no legal case against Jesus?

2. What reason did the Jews give Pilate when they insisted that Pilate have Jesus crucified? Do you think the reason they gave was the real reason? If not, what do you think their real reason might have been?

3. In your opinion, what did the high priests, scribes, and Pharisees who insisted that Pilate crucify Jesus really think about the Law of God and how did they treat it? 

 

Sunday April 6th Sunday a School Lesson

April 6 2014

Isaiah 56:6-8 Jeremiah 7:1-12 and Mark 11:12-19 

Questions for Discussion and Thinking Further

Since this is the third of a three part lesson series, only 2 of the 5 Study Questions will be asked below.

1. Why do you think the priests allowed the money changers and those who sold doves for sacrifices keep cheating the people, both before and after Jesus cleansed the temple?

 2. Why do you think Jesus quoted from the Hebrew Scriptures (the Old Testament prophets) after He cleansed the temple?