Kyle TalbotBible Study Methods

ue February 22

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Kyle TalbotBible Study Methods

ue February 22

Living by the Book, chapters 27-28; 30-35

Read 2 Thessalonians 3 times
(1) Observe the author and recipients;
(2) Observe the occasion and relationship between the author and recipients; (3) Observe the main purpose(s) of the letter

Assignments:

Complete Reading Log

Write a one-page summary of the historical and cultural context surrounding the church at Thessalonica citing the sources you used

Complete Main Idea Worksheet

John 11:35

“Jesus Wept”

Kernel Sentence(s)

Subject (?)

Complement

John 11:25-26

“I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die.”

Kernel Sentence(s)

Subject (?)

Complement

Big Idea Exercises[1]

Determine the subject & complement in the following paragraphs:

  1. A good sermon leaves you wondering how the preacher knew all about you.
    Subject: ______
    Complement: ______
  2. Today’s pulpit has lost its authority because it has largely ignored the Bible as the source of its message.
    Subject: ______
    Complement: ______
  3. The young have lots of time and few memories while the elderly have lots of memories and little time.
    Subject: ______
    Complement: ______
  4. The popular saying has it, “Charity begins at home.” It doesn’t. Charity begins where love connects with need.
    Subject: ______
    Complement: ______
  5. Attention Teenagers: If you are tired of being hassled by unreasonable parents, now is the time for action. Leave home now and pay your own way while you still know everything.
    Subject: ______
    Complement: ______
  6. “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.” (Matthew 7:21)
    Subject: ______
    Complement: ______
  7. “Remember your Creator in the days of your youth before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you say, ‘I find no pleasure in them.’” (Ecclesiastes 12:1)
    Subject: ______
    Complement: ______
  8. “Do not speak harshly to a man older than yourself, but advise him as you would your own father; treat younger men as brothers and older women as you would your mother. Always treat younger women with propriety, as if they were your sisters” (1 Timothy 5:1-3)
    Subject: ______
    Complement: ______
  9. Forgiveness “cannot mean that we cover up a fault with a ‘mantle of charity.’ Divine things are never an illusion and deception. On the contrary, before the sin is forgiven the mantle with which it is covered must be removed. The sin must be unmercifully—yes unmercifully—exposed to the light of God’s countenance (Psalm 90)” (Helmut Thielicke)
    Subject: ______
    Complement: ______
  10. “Blessed is the person
    whose transgressions are forgiven,
    whose sins are covered.
    Blessed is the person
    whose sin the Lord does not count against him
    And in whose spirit is no deceit.” (Psalm 32:1-2)
    Subject: ______
    Complement: ______

[1]Haddon Robinson Biblical Preaching (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2001) p 47-50