• #TSSGNotes – 📚🙌🏽❤️ Consolation Granted through Prayer – August 4, 2024

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    CONSOLATION GRANTED THROUGH PRAYER

     

    BIBLE BASIS: 2 Corinthians 1:3-11

     

    BIBLE TRUTH: God never leaves His children alone and unprotected

     

    MEMORY VERSE: “And our hope of you is steadfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation” 2 Corinthians 1:7

     

    LESSON AIM: By the end of the lesson, we will:

    • DISCERN Paul’s meaning in explaining reliance on God during affliction
    • Sense the JOY of resting in God’s protection and consolation
    • DETERMINE how we can extend the loving concern that God has for us to others

     

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  • #TSSGNotes – 📚🙌🏽❤️ Submit To God in Love – July 28, 2024

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    Submit To God in Love [See same lesson – January 13, 2019]

    Bible Basis: James 4:1-10

    Bible Truth: James asserts that loving and obeying God opens the door to God’s blessings and frees us from conflicts and disputes.

     Memory Verse: “Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.”  James 4:8

    Lesson AIM: That we will ACCEPT James’ teaching about the source of conflicts and his prescription for avoiding them; REPENT of attitudes and behaviors that keep adults mired in conflicts and disputes; and DEVELOP ways to draw near to God in humble submission.

     

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  • #TSSGNotes – 📚🙌🏽❤️ Seek the Good of Others – July 28, 2024

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    SEEK THE GOOD OF OTHERS

    BIBLE BASIS: 1 Corinthians 14:13–26

    BIBLE TRUTH: Whatever you do in worship  should edify other believers as well as  yourself. 

    MEMORY VERSE: “How is it then, brethren?  when ye come together, every one of you  hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue,  hath a revelation, hath an interpretation.  Let all things be done unto edifying”  (1 Corinthians 14:26). 

    LESSON AIM: By the end of the lesson, we  will: RECOUNT what Paul says about the  value of speaking in tongues; REALIZE  the importance of speaking plainly in  the company of others; and REAFFIRM  strategies for effectively communicating the  Gospel to both believers and unbelievers.

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  • #TSSGNotes – 📚🙌🏽❤️ Expectant Watchfulness [God Redeems Us] – July 28, 2024

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    Notes curated by Dr. Jameson Travick

     

    “Expectant Watchfulness”

    Psalm 130

    Background Scripture: Psalm 130

    Printed Scripture: Psalm 130

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    Lesson Aims: (NIV Standard Lesson Commentary 2023-2024)

    1. Identify elements of cause and effect in the text.
      2. Define the genre of lament using Psalm 130 as an example.
      3. Personalize, in writing, one of the verses without changing the psalmist’s original intent.

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    Key Verse:

    Israel, put your hope in the Lord, for with the LORD is unfailing love and with him is full redemption. – Psalm 130:7 NIV

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  • #TSSGNotes – 📚🙌🏽❤️ Overcoming Temptation – July 21, 2024

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    OVERCOMING TEMPTATION

    BIBLE BASIS: 1 Corinthians 10:9–22

    BIBLE TRUTH: Yielding to temptation is sin.

    MEMORY VERSE: “There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it” (1 Corinthians 10:13).

    LESSON AIM: By the end of the lesson, we will: PONDER Paul’s warnings about yielding to temptation; SENSE the joy of resisting the temptation of sin; and PRAY over specific needs of one another for God’s help in overcoming temptation.

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  • #TSSGNotes – 📚🙌🏽❤️ Christ as Intercessor – July 21, 2024

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    Christ as Intercessor [See also Sunday School Lesson Highlight: The High Priest Forever, October 23, 2016

    Bible Basis: Hebrews 7:20-28

    Memory Verse: “Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.” – Hebrews 7:25

    Lesson AIM: By the end of the lesson, we will: RECOGNIZE that Jesus intercedes with the Father on our behalf; SYMPATHIZE with what it means to be a modern-day intercessor; and DISCOVER how to approach God through prayer and intercession.

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  • #TSSGNotes – 📚🙌🏽❤️ Delightful Precepts – July 21, 2024

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    Delightful Precepts

    Text:  Psalm 119:73-80 

    Key Verse: Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments. —Psalm 119:73

    Unit 2: Expressing Hope

    July 7 Ceaseless Love………………………………………… Lamentations 3:16-24 

    July 14 Continual Proclamation …………………………………… Psalm 71:12-21 

    July 21 Delightful Precepts ………………………………………………Psalm 119:73-80 

    July 28 Expectant Watchfulness………………………………. Psalm 130         

    Lesson Aims:

    1. Identify the reason(s) for the psalmist’s comfort.
    2. Explain why following the law is more than rule-keeping.
    3. Select one of the eight verses of the text as most personally meaningful and explain.

     

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  • #TSSGNotes – 📚🙌🏽❤️ At Home in the Community – July 14, 2024

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    At Home in the Community

    Bible Basis: Philemon 1:8-18

    Memory Verse: “In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,” Titus 2:7

    Lesson AIM: That we will EXPLAIN why Paul pleaded for Onesimus; EXPLORE our feelings about standing up for someone needing advocacy; and IDENTIFY way we can stand up for someone being bullied or discriminated against.

     

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  • #TSSGNotes – 📚🙌🏽❤️ Watch What You Eat- July 14, 2024

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    WATCH WHAT YOU EAT

    BIBLE BASIS: 1 Corinthians 8:1–13

    BIBLE TRUTH: Put the spiritual well-being of your brother as your top priority.

    MEMORY VERSE: “But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumbling- block to them that are weak” (1 Corinthians 8:9)

    LESSON AIM: By the end of the lesson, we will: EXPLORE the positive and negative influences that community members have on one another; EMPATHIZE with Christians who may have been negatively affected by others in the community; and EVALUATE our own behavior to rid ourselves of actions that might negatively influence the people around us.

     

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  • **BONUS** TSSGNotes – 📚🙌🏽❤️ Continual Proclamation – July 14, 2024

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    Continual Proclamation

    Bible Basis: Psalm 71:2-21

    Memory Verse: “But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.” Psalm 71:14

    Lesson AIM: After participating in this lesson, each learner will be able to:

    1. Summarize what the biblical writer does to maintain hope.
    2. Contrast the biblical basis for hope with secular ones.
    3. Role-play a debate regarding conclusions from Lesson Aim 2.

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  • TSSGNotes – 📚🙌🏽❤️ Continual Proclamation – July 14, 2024

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    Continual Proclamation

    Bible Basis: Psalm 71:2-21

    Memory Verse: “But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.” Psalm 71:14

    Lesson AIM: After participating in this lesson, each learner will be able to:

    1. Summarize what the biblical writer does to maintain hope.
    2. Contrast the biblical basis for hope with secular ones.
    3. Role-play a debate regarding conclusions from Lesson Aim 2.

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  • #TSSGNotes – 📚🙌🏽❤️ Ceaseless Love – July 7, 2024

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    Ceaseless Love
    Bible Basis: Lamentations 3:16–24

    Memory Verse: Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail.—Lamentations 3:21–22

    Lesson Aims: After participating in this lesson, each learner will be able to:
    1. Identify by color coding elements of hope (green) as interspersed with elements of despair (yellow).
    2. Contrast those oppositional elements in terms of how God sees things.
    3. Write a prayer of thanks for God’s faithfulness in having led him or her through a time of despair.

     

     

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  • #TSSGNotes – 📚🙌🏽❤️ Glorify God with Your Body – July 7, 2024

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    GLORIFY GOD WITH YOUR BODY

    BIBLE BASIS: 1 Corinthians 6:12-20

    BIBLE TRUTH: Your body belongs to God 

    MEMORY VERSE:  1 Corinthians 6:19 “What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?”

    LESSON AIM: By the end of the lesson, we will:

    • RECALL the Apostle Paul’s comparison of the body to a temple
    • RECOGNIZE how as Christians we’re called to keep our bodies pure
    • RESOLVE to promote and practice personal, moral and physical purity as part of the Body of Christ

     

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  • #TSSGNotes – 📚🙌🏽❤️ Live the Truth, Teach the Truth – July 7, 2024

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    Live the Truth, Teach the Truth

    Bible Basis: Titus 2

    Memory Verse: “In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,” Titus 2:7

    Lesson AIM: That we will EXAMINE what it means to live as examples for Christ; FEEL  strongly that God desires and expects us to live godly; and COMMIT to display faith in God through acts and deeds.

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  • #TSSGNotes – 📚🙌🏽❤️ Hope for a New Day – June 23, 2024

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    HOPE FOR A NEW DAY

     

    BIBLE BASIS: Haggai 2:23; Zechariah 4:1–3,  6–14

     

    BIBLE TRUTH: The Spirit of God is the  source of our success.

     

     

    MEMORY VERSE: “Then he answered and  spake unto me, saying, !is is the word of  the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by  might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith  the LORD of hosts” (Zechariah 4:6).

     

    LESSON AIM: By the end of the lesson, we  will:

    • ACKNOWLEDGE the connection  between God’s promises to Israel for  rebuilding the Temple and the Israelites’  obedience to Him;
    • APPRECIATE the  community’s restoration of the Temple  and God’s restoration of the people; and
    • ARTICULATE our thankfulness to God  for the blessings bestowed upon us for our  obedience.

     

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  • #TSSGNotes – 📚🙌🏽❤️ Full Assurance – June 23, 2024

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    Sunday June 23, 2024

    Full Assurance

    Bible Basis: Hebrews 6:9–20

    Memory Verse: We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain, where our forerunner, Jesus, has entered on our behalf. He has become a high priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.—Hebrews 6:19–20

    Lesson Aims: After participating in this lesson, each learner will be able to:

    • List elements of the “diligence” Christians are to practice.
    • Explain the meaning and significance of Jesus as “forerunner” and “high priest forever.”
    • Write a prayer of thanks for God’s keeping of his promises.

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