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Youth Group Bible Survey Week 1: Creation, Fall & Promise (Genesis 1–12)

  Youth Group Bible Survey Week 1: Creation, Fall & Promise (Genesis 1–12) Session Overview This first week lays the foundation for everything in the Bible. God creates the world, humanity falls into sin, and God begins His plan of redemption through a promise to Abraham. Key Passages Genesis 1–2: Creation and God’s design Genesis 3: The Fall Genesis 6–9: Noah and the Flood Genesis 11: Tower of Babel Genesis 12: God’s covenant with Abraham Major Themes God is the Creator and is good Humanity has real choice and chose sin Sin brings consequences and separation God does not abandon people—He offers grace and a plan Opening Recap (2 minutes) Today we’re starting at the very beginning—how God created everything, how humanity fell into sin, and how God immediately began a plan to fix what was broken. Some of these stories may be familiar. Others might be new. Either way, this is where the whole story of the Bible begins. Teaching Outline (10 minutes) God creates everything (Genesis ...
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133 Biblical Character Studies

Character Study Challenge

Studying the lives of bible characters can be a great way to add method to the madness of bible study.  I will be reteaching a class on Bible Study Methods at my church starting next month and I love a good challenge.  As part of my personal bible study over the next few months, I want to learn about biblical characters and apply what I learn... so I say go big or go home.  I plan to do 133 biblical biographical character studies and we'll see how long that will take... posted here for your reading and commenting pleasure.  I've done many word studies in the past and am continuing to do so with my fruits of the spirit study.  I've also studied the biblical context of praise and worship songs in a 30 day challenge.

Subscribe to the follow by email over on the side of the page and it will send new posts to your email whenever I write them.  If you would like to study along with me, here is the order I will be researching the characters and I will periodically update this list to be links to the corresponding posts.

What I'll Be Doing

I will be using the Rick Warren Bible Study Methods book as a reference [that's an amazon link if you're interested].  And here is a nifty template you can copy if you are following along with your own studies.
  1. Abraham
  2. Abigail
  3. Daniel [sermon]
  4. Abishag
  5. David
  6. Anna
  7. Elijah
  8. Elisha
  9. Bathsheba
  10. Ezekiel
  11. Ezra
  12. Deborah
  13. Goliath
  14. Isaiah
  15. Delilah
  16. Isaac
  17. Jacob
  18. Dinah
  19. Jeremiah
  20. John [Apostle]
  21. Dorcas
  22. Joshua
  23. Moses
  24. Elizabeth
  25. Nehemiah
  26. Paul
  27. Peter
  28. Esther
  29. Pharaoh
  30. Samson
  31. Samuel
  32. Eunice
  33. Saul [OT]
  34. Solomon
  35. Aaron
  36. Abel
  37. Eve
  38. Abimelech
  39. Abner
  40. Absalom
  41. Achan
  42. Hagar
  43. Adam
  44. Ahab
  45. Ahithophel
  46. Amos
  47. Hannah
  48. Ananias
  49. Andrew
  50. Apollos
  51. Aquila
  52. Jezebel
  53. Asa
  54. Balaam
  55. Barnabas
  56. Barzillai
  57. Caiaphas
  58. Jochabed
  59. Caleb
  60. Eli
  61. Esau
  62. Gehazi
  63. Leah
  64. Gideon
  65. Habakkuk
  66. Haggai
  67. Haman
  68. Lydia
  69. Herod
  70. Hezekiah
  71. Hosea
  72. Jabez
  73. Martha
  74. James
  75. Jehoshaphat
  76. Jeroboam
  77. Mary [Jesus' Mother]
  78. Joab
  79. Job
  80. John the Baptist
  81. Jonah
  82. Mary Magdalene
  83. Jonathan
  84. Judas Iscariot
  85. Laban
  86. Lazarus
  87. Lot
  88. Luke
  89. Mary of Bethany
  90. Mark
  91. Matthew
  92. Melchizedek
  93. Mephibosheth
  94. Mordecai
  95. Michal
  96. Naaman
  97. Nathan
  98. Noah
  99. Bartholomew
  100. Philemon
  101. Miriam
  102. Philip
  103. Pontius Pilate
  104. Rehoboam
  105. Shamgar
  106. Silas
  107. Naomi
  108. Stephen
  109. Timothy
  110. Titus
  111. Thomas
  112. Simon the Zealot
  113. Judas the Greater
  114. Priscilla
  115. Tychicus
  116. The Woman at the Well
  117. Uzziah
  118. Zechariah
  119. Queen of Sheba
  120. Zedekiah
  121. Zephaniah
  122. Rachel
  123. Zerubbabel
  124. Enoch
  125. Rahab
  126. Rebekah
  127. Ruth
  128. Sapphira
  129. Sarah
  130. The Shunammite
  131. Vashti
  132. Zipporah
  133. Matthias
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