I have enjoyed teaching the Middle School class for the last three months. We told the kids from the beginning that this was going to be an in-depth class, lots of thought questions and defending of conclusions.
We also told them there would be a review and a test at the end of the class. The review was Sunday... the test is tonight.
How well would you do? BTW, if you have concerns over wording and such, tell my co-teacher!
-- Steve
Knowing God, Knowing Me
1. Based on what we see in Genesis 1, what is the most important reason God created? Give at least two details from Genesis 1 that support this.
2. What does Jesus pray for in John 17? What does this tell us about God? According to this passage, “Knowing God is ______.”
3. List three things the garden teaches us about God?
4. List three things the garden teaches us about ourselves?
5. What is the metaphor used by Jeremiah and Paul to talk about God’s authority? What two passages of scripture use this metaphor?
6. What key passage did we use to show God's desire for us to know and understand Him? According to this passage, in what three things should we not boast?
7. What does it mean that God made us “in His image” in Genesis 1: 26-27? Why did God do this?
8. List at least three lies Eve believed in Genesis 3.
9. According to what we learned in Genesis 1 and Romans 1, what are we really saying to God when we sin? According to Romans 1, what two things result when we do this? What is the punishment?
10. In your own words, define “Holy” What does it mean that “God is Holy?” What does it mean when we are Holy?
11. Why is choice necessary?
12. Why is it that God’s Holiness can’t coexist with sin?
13. What is a covenant?
14. Why does God introduce covenant? (What is the purpose?)
Why'd you leave the worship group? I just got on my other blog, for the first time in like 4 months, and realised you were gone. Did something happen? :/
Based on those questions, and that it's you and Matt teaching the class, I totally want to take it!
I'm glad you're blessed to assemble with Matt. I've only been able to spend a week or so through the years (though not recently) with him and he is such an encouraging brother!
Dude. I still have nightmares about the "final" that we had to take in middle school. talk about pressure! preachers kids are supposed to know everything, not just be know-it-alls! Lol! sounds like a great class. i would have enjoyed it!
Last night, I heard guitar playing (as usual) from our music room. As I am inclined to do, I walked in to engage Josh in some head-cutting. Caitlin was in there on the computer, and after we played around for a few minutes, we broke into a Jerry Cantrell song we had heard earlier. Caitlin quickly googled the lyrics and we had the three of us singing in harmony with electric and acoustic guitars.
We started off with Alice In Chains material, then went to some Pink Floyd, Queen, Metallica, Stone Temple Pilots, Sugarloaf, Nirvana, and who knows what else before we collapsed onto the couch for some comedy and napping.
It would have been wonderful to have Nikki with us, but she would have only been willing to sing with the Queen songs. Jenny would have been welcome, but Enya and Al Jarreau were not on the set list for the evening.
My family is so musically talented. It sure makes for some fun times!
For the men of the family, anything to do with Tennessee sports (or sports in general). Somehow, the kids haven't caught Leslie's and my like of playing cards and games. Margie just wants to be left alone to her world of MySpace, FaceBook and text messaging.
That's really cool, Steve, I look forward to times like that with my girls.
My own family are craftspeople of one kind of another: carpenters, shoemakers, quilters, seamstresses, artists. We can all pick up pretty much anything in that broad category and make it work pretty quickly. It's really cool to be able to see those kinds of threads through a family and feel like you are a part of it.
My whole family (both mom's and dad's side) are musical. My wife's family? Not so much...but Nathan (eh, my 6 y/o boy) has been running around humming 'Smoke on the Water' and making an attempt to play it on his toy guitar. He's getting pretty close...he says I need a guitar so I can play with him :)
Those who will know will be old or a guitar freak. Yes, I know the first 4 and I am not a guitar freak...draw your own conclusions. It only took a few seconds of searching to figure out #5. I am not a big sports fan and not from Florida so I guess that qualifies me as 'bait'.
BTW Your friend is Talented!
I'm gonna guess #1 is Jimmy Page and #2 is Stevie Ray Vaughn. I don't know #3 at all, but I could venture a far-fetched guess that #4 is Jim Morrison, but that's probably way wrong.
Very nice! The only one I knew was SRV, but I don't really know the faces of a lot of people whose voices I know, and I'd have never gotten the football player.
Steve, I really think you should can all these people you call your "friends" who don't appreciate a Heisman winner :) "Who Cares" should be grounds for dismissal.
Seriously, when you start off with Eddie and then go to Stevie Ray, you expect things to progress (not that you COULD progress from those two). Instead, the last one is a curveball in the dirt. For real, who saw that coming?
Seriously, I can't believe that hardly anyone cared about my beloved Danny! He was the only one I knew, how I miss being a kid and wishing I was his GF!!!!
Man….I really need to turn in my "I like rock/metal" card…….I get two strikes :( One for not recognizing Eddie Van Halen, another for thinking he was Jimmy Page.
It wasn't a lack of feedback I was interested in, it was that none of it addressed what I intended as my main point. I'm trying to figure out why the point wasn't taken.
I love these "de-motivational" posters. Crack me up!!! My friends Elio and Brian made Urban Meyer a poster filled with these things when the Gators played Ohio State for the National Championship game. Each poster threw Ohio under the bus. Incredibly funny and motivating for the Gators. I don't want to brag on my friends too much but THEY are the reasons the Gators won that game. Urban's secretary sent them a nice email saying how much of a kick he got out of the poster and how they hung it in the training room.
I read at least one (I think the title was something about crying over spilled grape juice), and found it useful. I have to admit that was a couple of years ago, so I don't have more specific comments on it. I think I might have to look at those again.
I was watching a show on Steve Miller (as in The Steve Miller Band). I did not know that his family was friends with Les Paul and his wife. He gives Les Paul the credit for inspiring him to pursue a musical career.
Nor, despite the accompanying picture, does the fact you have always done it that way mean it is stupid, or wrong. It is even possible that it continued for "always" because it is the wisest way.
