Main Point: True belief is paired with true repentance

Main Application: Keep repenting and believing. Have your habits actually changed?

Outline:

1) BELIEF AND BAPTISM

2) BELIEF AND THE SPIRIT

3) BELIEF AND REPENTANCE

RESOURCES: Commentaries: Bock, Merida, Schreiner; Stott, Wright. Books: Dominion, by Holland; The Patient Ferment of the Early Church, by Kreider;

Outline:

1) A CHURCH THAT SUFFERS

2) A CHURCH THAT SCATTERS

3) A CHURCH THAT SPEAKS

RESOURCES: Commentaries: Bock, Merida, Schreiner; Stott, Wright. Books: Dominion, by Holland; The Patient Ferment of the Early Church, by Kreider;

OUTLINE:

1) HOW IT WILL HAPPEN

2) WHAT WILL HAPPEN

3) WHY IT WILL HAPPEN

Resources: Commentaries: Ciampa & Rosner, Morris, Prior; Books: Surprised by Hope, N.T. Wright, The Resurrection of the Son of God, N.T. Wright. 

OUTLINE:

1) WHO THE CROWD THINK JESUS IS

2) WHO THE COMMITTED THINK JESUS IS

3) WHO THE CURMUDGEONS THINK JESUS IS

MAIN POINT: Jesus hasn’t come to liberate the world politically, but to liberate us spiritually for eternity.

RESOURCES: Commentaries - Bruner, Carson, Hamilton, Wright | Books - Jesus & The Eyewitnesses, by R. Bauckham; Gentle & Lowly, by D. Ortlund| Studies - Read, Mark, Learn: John, by St. Helen's Bishopsgate

Main Point: God Preserves His Promise and Expands His Promise

Outline:

1) From Adam to Abram

2) From Abram to All

RESOURCES: Calvin, Greidanus, Kidner, Sailhamer, Walton | Books: Reading Genesis Well, by Collins; The Unseen Realm, by Heisler; How to Read Genesis, by Longman; Understanding Genesis, by Sarna | Studies: Introduction to the Flood Narrative, by Mackie; God of Creation, by Wilkin.

OUTLINE:

1) God Designed You to Build

2) How to Know If You’re Building Your Own Babel

3) What God Does When We Try to Build Babel

4) How the Gospel Changes How We Build

Main Point: God designed you to build, but whenever you try to build Babel, he’s going to put an end to it (if not now, in the end).

Resources: Commentaries: Genesis by Wenham

OUTLINE:

1) Spreading the seed of the serpent

2) Spreading the seed of the Savior

Main Point: Jesus came from the same people he came for

RESOURCES: Calvin, Greidanus, Kidner, Sailhamer, Walton | Books: Reading Genesis Well, by Collins; The Unseen Realm, by Heisler; How to Read Genesis, by Longman; Understanding Genesis, by Sarna | Studies: Introduction to the Flood Narrative, by Mackie; God of Creation, by Wilkin.

OUTLINE:

1) Pattern

2) Problem

3) Promise

RESOURCES: Calvin, Greidanus, Kidner, Sailhamer, Walton | Books: Reading Genesis Well, by Collins; The Unseen Realm, by Heisler; How to Read Genesis, by Longman; Understanding Genesis, by Sarna | Studies: Introduction to the Flood Narrative, by Mackie; God of Creation, by Wilkin.

Outline:

1) An Altar

2) A Blessing

3) A Covenant

RESOURCES: Calvin, Greidanus, Kidner, Sailhamer, Walton | Books: Reading Genesis Well, by Collins; The Unseen Realm, by Heisler; How to Read Genesis, by Longman; Understanding Genesis, by Sarna | Studies: Introduction to the Flood Narrative, by Mackie; God of Creation, by Wilkin.

OUTLINE:

1) God remembers

2) God recreates

RESOURCES: Commentaries: Sialhamer, Walton, Brueggeman, Hamilton, Calvin. Studies: Tim Mackie - The Flood Narrative Course.