Courageous Ambassadors for God
The Illuminate Study Guide is a packet inluding a copy of the Illuminate booklet for study participants and a four-page leaflet of supplemental material for each lesson. Study goals, discussion questions, and lesson application along with the supplemental commentary provide useful tools for the study leader.
If you count the pages, you'll find that the Major Prophets--Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, and Daniel--occupy almost 25% of the entire Old Testament. So, in the Illuminate curriculum we're faced with the daunting task of trying to pick only 13 brief passages of Scripture from this huge section of the Bible. The result is that we've chosen to focus entirely on the prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah, both of whom deservedly are regarded as giants in the long tradition of biblical prophecy. Selecting only these two books means that the courageous accounts of faithfulness in Daniel, his prophecies of future kingdoms, and the apocalyptic elements in Ezekiel are not included in this quarter's course of study. Instead we've chosen the theme, "Courageous Ambassadors for God" to highlight the courage and radical obedience of these two remarkabe messengers of Yahweh.
SAMPLE: Courageous Ambassadors for God
SAMPLE: Courageous Ambassadors for God SG
lessons-
1. Isaiah's Call (Isaiah 6:1-13)
2. The Folly of Materialism and Secularism (Isaiah 5:8-13, 20-26)
3. Mighty to Help (Isaiah 40:12-15, 21-31)
4. God Has Not Forgotten (Isaiah 49:13-16, 19-23)
5. The True Fast (Isaiah 58:1-12)
6. Days of Peace and Blessing (Isaiah 2:1-4; 65:17-25)
7. Jeremiah's Call (Jeremiah 1:4-10, 17-19)
8. The Two Core Sins (Jeremiah 2:1-7, 10-13)
9. False Prophets (Jeremiah 6:13-17; 23:16-21)
10. Appropriate Boasting? (Jeremiah 7:1-10; 9:23-24)
11. A Future with Hope (Jeremiah 29:4-14)
12. Jeremiah's Complaint (Jeremiah 20:7-18)
13. A New Covenant (Jeremiah 31:27-34)