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Culture & Context: Exodus
Can it be “fun” to study Exodus? Maybe the phrase should be “eye-opening” when we consider some of what we will see in this book. A burning bush. A pillar of cloud. A river of blood. Frogs falling from the sky! An entire Sea that splits and has a dry bottom to speed Israelites across to freedom. We have an opportunity to journal all of these miraculous and explosive events!


Culture & Context: The Gospel of John
Year 1 begins with the gospel of John. Wait- we don’t start with Genesis? Don’t worry...Genesis is the next
book. John is an excellent starting place because it is an evangelistic book- John wrote this book to
persuade people to come to a saving belief in Jesus. I have personally done in-depth Bible studies of John
several times and have seen and learned something new every time.


Culture & Context: Psalms
After years of wandering, the sinful generation (except for Joshua and Caleb) had died out, Moses had passed the torch of leadership
The Bible has five “poetry” books: Job (yup, Job is considered poetry, as well as wisdom literature), Psalms,
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and the Song of Solomon (which is one of the most explicit love poems ever
written!). Poetry is just one of the forms of literature in the Bible. There is a flow-chart in the Joshua, Part 2
blog that shows some of
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