Catholic Community Bible Study

1 Corinthians 1:10-31

Division, cliques, parties, dissent in Corinth: those are the reasons Paul writes this letter. He emphasized UNITY in Christ and especially unity UNDER THE CROSS of Christ Jesus. We will look at the Sacrament of Baptism and the reality of a splintered Christianity, and a mind blowing reflection on the Cross

1 Corinthians 1:1-9. Today we’ll introduce St Paul and some of his credentials, look at the sin city of Corinth, focus in on the words APOSTLE and CHURCH and FELLOWSHIP, as well as some basic Christology—theology to understand Jesus Christ. We will also be unapologetically CATHOLIC as we unpack how Christ declares us righteous and justified.

JUDITH 11:1-13:20

We continue with Judith’s deception—or is it really? Holofernes throws a huge banquet, and then loses his head over this woman’s beauty! We’ll look at the morality of this story and dig a little deeper…

Judith Chapter 8:21-10:23

We’ll see Judith’s plan, her link to Simeon, a look at the Lost ten Tribes of Israel, Judith's amazing prayer, her surrender to Holofernes, and the set up for the final confrontation…

JUDITH Chapter 8:4-8:20

Now, halfway through the story, we are finally introduced to the title character! Judith, the Lady Jew. We’ll look at the importance of the tent, her maid-servant, listening to the Lord, testing the Lord, wisdom of the Lord --- This is the heart of the book with prayer and building tensions…

Read Judith 5:1 – 8:3

We’ll meet the fascinating character Achior, listen to HIS telling of the Jewish story, watch the tension build to the great battle, watch as Bethulia gets completely surrounded by the enemy, and then we meet the awesome Judith

Judith 2:4 – 4:15

Who is the author? We’ll read through the war set up for the story, we’ll look a little more into the history and genre, meet the penultimate bad guy Holofernes, find the city of Bethulia, and introduce Achior…

Judith Chapter 1:1-2:3

An introduction overview, setting the stage, an explanation of the proto and deutero-canon and apocrypha, characters and locations, debates about the genre and the historical accuracy, and I’ll explain the viewpoint I’ll take as we read through this gem of a book. If you want to jump to the 30 minute mark on the Episode, you can hear the direction we'll be taking with Judith!

Chapters 9:11- 11:1. Look at the revenge of the Jews, we wrestle with the morality of that counter-offensive, we’ll wrap up the story, explore the date this book may have been written, and see the brilliant structure of the Book of Esther

Esther Chapters 6:11-9:10 with Greek Additional Chapter 16 (or E)

Haman’s plot starts to unravel, The 2nd Banquet with the King and Haman, the tables get turned, the edict sent out by Xerxes, and a really important look at how this era shaped Judaism for the time of Jesus