Concordia Adult Bible Class

It had to be a hard thing to give away all she had to live on. But this widow did. Why did she give away 100% of her possessions? Because she came to trust God with all her possessions. What things are holding you back from trusting God with everything? In this message, we’ll discuss some of the most common barriers to stewardship.

In the middle of a famine, Elijah asks a pagan widow to trust his God for provision. She has only a little flour and oil for her and her son. But Elijah asks this widow to give the food to him so that he can eat, assuring her that his God will provide her with what she needs. Elijah, in some sense, is using stewardship as an evangelism strategy. For Elijah knows that if this widow learns to trust his God with her possessions, she will learn how to trust this God with her eternity.

The call of every Christian is to live beyond themselves. We are to share the hope that we have with the world. When some lepers stumble into an Aramean camp that has been emptied by God, and when they find all sorts of treasure there, they cannot help but share the good news of the treasure with their neighbors. How can we do anything less than share the good news of the gospel with our neighbors?

When Jesus celebrates the Passover with His disciples the night before He dies, it becomes more than a Passover. It becomes a promise of His presence. For in, with, and under simple forms of bread and wine is the body and blood of Christ. In this message, we look at the Passover and how Jesus’ death on a cross leads God to not merely pass-over our sins, but to forgive them!

In the last chapter of Matthew, Jesus calls us to make disciples in two ways: by teaching His Word and by baptizing in His name (cf. Matthew 28:19-20). The Ethiopian eunuch becomes a disciple by baptism. Jesus still makes disciples in baptism today!

Worship is the natural and inevitable response of people who have faith in God to a good God. In this message, we look at the nature of worship, the location of worship, and the focus of worship in the Christian life.

Jesus gives us words in His teaching and He is the Word made flesh. Thus, it is vital that we hear and practice His words. In this message we talk about the nature and character of Jesus’ words – how they are perfect – and how they call us both to faith and to action.

The story of the Bible moves from God’s Creation to Our Fall to Christ’s Redemption to the Final Restoration. In the introduction to this series, we look at how Christ undoes the curse of our Fall into sin by becoming cursed on a cross.

Many of the Psalms were written by King David, Israel’s greatest king. But as great as David was, the Psalms express a yearning for another king – one who is even greater than King David. Psalm 96:7 says, “O LORD, save the king!” As Christians, we know that this prayer was answered when God sent a king named Jesus who saved us.

In the Bible, wisdom is defined not just as knowledge, but as the ability to make right choices. This is why wisdom ultimately comes from God! For when choices in life become difficult, God can give us wisdom to choose what is best even when we, by ourselves, do not know what to do.