November 26, 2017 AM, 2 Peter 1:12-15.pPeter tells us that he is writing these words because he will soon die—and because what he has written is absolutely critical truth. Thankfully, his audience already knows and is well established in the truth of the gospel. But they, like we, need a reminder of these things./p

November 26, 2017 SS, Psalm 51, various.pWith this message, we start a brief exploration of the extent of remission of sins for an Old Testament believer. We paused to explore the idea of the Holy Spirit potentially being taken away from David in Psalm 51:11 and saw that this connected to 1 Samuel 16:13-14./p

November 19, 2017 PM, Mark 1.pWe study the first part of Mark 1 together in order to better prepare ourselves to teach others the book. Our goal is to think through Mark so that we can be ready to share it with a non-Christian acquaintance as a way to share the gospel with them. We were reminded about the idea of the sonship of Jesus, about John's baptism, and remission of sins, and other things./p

pThe session was interactive, so the recording is punctuated by a number of very quiet periods where an audience member is speaking. Most of these have been omitted from the recording./p

November 19, 2017 AM, 2 Peter 1:10-11.pWe come to Peter's second exhortation about Christian growth. The exhortation is basically to be diligent. The idea is quite similar to verse 5. There, the command was to make every effort to supplement the baseline Christian faith with a number of essential virtues. It spoke of the need to really apply ourselves with earnest commitment to the task of Christian growth. We saw that Christian teaching emphasizes our personal participation as opposed to a mystical, passive approach. Here, we are making diligent effort again, but with the final outcome more in mind than our present character development./p

November 19, 2017 SS, Various.pOur teacher continues the study of Jesus Christ, emphasizing His divine person and the testimony of Him in the Bible and from His miraculous works. Jesus has all the characteristics of God, like omnipotence and omniscience./p

pThe recording lost the first few minutes of the lesson, but we captured the majority of it. /p

November 15, 2017 PM, Job 4.pWe come to chapter 4, and the first of Job's friends speaks. We learn quite a bit about Eliphaz's theology and the errors in it./p

November 12, 2017 PM, Mark 1.pWe began by examining the related questions of how and why we should have a regular intake of God's word, and what the benefit/effect of that is. Then we began a study of Mark's gospel and focused on the requirement for salvation, being careful to distinguish forgiveness from water baptism./p

November 12, 2017 AM, 2 Peter 1:8-9.pAfter reading of Genesis 9, we studied two key motivations for growing in our faith./p

November 12, 2017 SS, Various.pIn a prior session, our teacher spoke of the initial glory of Lucifer, which was marred by iniquity at some point early in the creation. Unfortunately, he is powerful and goes about like a roaring lion. He also masquerades as an angel of light./p

pIn this session, we examine the present activities of Satan. Satan seeks to counterfeit God's program. The closer the counterfeit is to the original article, the easier it is to deceive people./p

November 8, 2017 PM, Job 3.pWe considered Job's first speech and his three dark wishes: that he had never been born, that he had been stillborn, or that he would die. In either of these cases, he would be at rest and relieved from his awful misery. We thought together about why this is not the full picture and why killing oneself is not a Christian solution to the problem of suffering, although it truly expresses the feelings of a man in physical agony./p