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Sometimes God wants his people to wait patiently. Sometimes he wants us act quickly. Abraham and Sarah show us how to fail and how to succeed in these two areas. Our students will benefit from learning patience from their example instead of from the pain of God’s consequences.

In the midst of God’s great promises to Abram, the text of Genesis tells us that Abram trusted God and God considered him righteous. In Romans 4 and Galatians 3, we find out this is the experience of every person who places their faith in Jesus as well.

After a terrible failure of faith in Egypt, Abram bounces back in his separation and subsequent rescue of his nephew Lot. Our faith in God will be tested, and when we fail, we should get back up and respond like Abram.

We are introduced to Abram, the father of people who have faith in God. He receives a command to leave his homeland and a promise from God, so he responds with action. Our students should exercise the same faith in God’s word.

Wrapping up the Primeval History of Genesis 1-11, Moses tells us the tragic account of the Tower of Babel when humanity banded together against God and his authority. The world is still doing the same things today! We should humbly live by every word that comes from God.

We are still living in the post-flood world, where God’s instructions and rules for Noah’s descendants apply! Genesis 9 is an important passage to mold our Christian worldview.

God brings judgment to the sinful world through a universal flood and God is bringing judgment upon the world again for its sin. Our students need to find safety in Christ.

Cain and Abel show us a frightening example of how bad sin can get when we let sin fester in our hearts. My prayer is that those of our students who live like Cain would be turned by God to a new kind of life!

When Adam and Eve sinned, they faced massive consequences from God. We bear the same kinds of repercussions for our sinful actions as well. Thankfully, in the midst of the curse God promises hope of redemption through Christ.

Satan’s main tactic in temptation is to attack the truthfulness of God’s word and the goodness of God’s commands. Our students need to be trained to stand up to Satan’s age-old schemes by trusting and obeying God’s word.

God says it is not good for man to be alone so he makes woman, and he will explain more the implications of this truth in the rest of the Bible. It is essential for our students to know and believe what God says about marriage and gender in our confused and rebellious world.

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We studied the creation mandate from God to humanity and pushed our students to consider God’s purposes for men and women in his world. The most important action we can do to live out our purpose is to obey God’s word without hesitation or questioning.

The image of God is the defining characteristic of humanity in the creation account. It is the first thing we learn about humans in the Bible! If our students understand what it means for all people to be made in the image of God and the implications of this idea, they will be equipped to discern whatever lies the world spreads about humanity.

Genesis 1 is a text written in the historical narrative style and it teaches that God made our world in six days and then he rested on the seventh. Our students need to see the massive worldview and theological problems with the modern myth of naturalistic evolution.

As we begin our yearlong study of the book of Genesis, we must stop and consider all the theology and worldview data that is contained in the first verses of the Bible. God was in the beginning and created the world by the word of his power. Everything Christians believe depends on this!

John ends his letter with a warning against idols. Christians today can make idols of any good gift from God if we devote ourselves to them more than to God. In our hearts, we need to be on guard against this foolish and shameful sin!

Don’t be satisfied until you are assured that you have a saving relationship with God.

John makes clear that each person who trusts in Jesus will be transformed, no longer prey to sinful temptations but characterized by love and obedience. We are called to confidently and consistently live out our faith because of Jesus’ life-transforming victory.

Love is one of God’s key attributes that affects everything he does. He expects us to love others like him because we have received so much love from him!

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God’s word is clear that every person is either a child of God or a child of the devil and one’s lifestyle shows one’s spiritual parentage to the world. 1 John 3:1-10 will bring great comfort to true children of God and great fear for those who practice habitual sin and thus prove they are not aligned with God. Our students need to respond rightly to this truth.

We are warned that those who walk away from the faith were never in a right relationship with God. Church kids should be on guard against walking away by being firmly rooted in the truth.

The apostle John warns Christians to stop loving the world and the evil things in the world because that kind of love is incompatible with loving God. Our students need to be warned against the allure of the world so that they would love God most!

We are all sinners before God, but only some people agree with God about how wrong their sin truly is. There is no hope for forgiveness from God without our humble recognition of our sins and the atoning sacrifice of Jesus.

The apostle John reminds his readers that God is morally perfect and anyone in a right relationship with God will reflect God’s holiness in their life because the sacrifice of Jesus cleanses them from sin.

This high school ministry exists to prepare your students to live the Christian life in a non-Christian world until they grow old and die. We want True North to be the most important group that your students are a part of (besides your family) for their high school years.

Jesus demands that we do something about what he has taught us. It is not good enough for us to know or agree with what he says, but we need to obey. Our students need to just do what Jesus says over and over again.

God cares deeply about our thoughts, and we ought to be very careful to train our patterns of thoughts to glorify God. It is better for ourselves and everyone around us if our thought life is righteous.

Jesus warns us that making a profession of faith in him is not enough to get us into heaven. Many people who claim that Jesus is Lord will go to hell. Those who do the will of God from the heart prove that have a saving relationship with Jesus.

Jesus warns his disciples to avoid false teachers and the eternal destruction they lead their followers towards. Our students need to grow in discernment so they are not misled by false spokesmen for God.

Jesus ends his Sermon on the Mount with 4 concluding illustrations. The first calls upon Old Testament wisdom imagery of two paths which lead to life or to death. Jesus calls his listening to respond to his teaching, and our students must submit to God and obey him or their lives will end in eternal destruction.

Don't fall for the lies of self love but instead obey God's commands to love him completely and love others sacrificially.

Jesus summarizes his teaching about loving other people by telling his disciples to do for people the things they would like other people to do for them. This ethical principle, sometimes called “The Golden Rule,” is a great standard to apply to our actions towards others.

Jesus invites his disciples to repeatedly ask God for what they need, trusting that God cares enough to answer.

Jesus tells his disciples to guard against an attitude of hypocritical criticism, but to deal with their own sin first so that they can help other Christians grow In Christ.

Jesus tells his disciples that anxiety has no place in their thinking because they have a sovereign Father in heaven who cares for them. We must never dwell on anxious thoughts, but turn to God and trust him.

Jesus says that his disciples should make their top priority God’s kingdom and righteousness. Our students need to put God’s priorities first now and for the rest of their lives.

In this section about treasure and money, Jesus uses the image of two conditions of the eye and the image of two different slave-owners to show the contrast between those who labor for earthly treasure and those who strive for heavenly treasure. It’s time for our students to kill the idolatry of materialism and serve God wholeheartedly.

Jesus explains that is foolish to spend your life accumulating earthly treasures that are fleeting, and it is wise to invest your life storing up treasures in heaven. There is no better time for our students to learn this lesson than right now!

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Jesus told “The Parable of the Two Sons” to the Jewish religious leaders to prove that repentant sinners are going to heaven before hypocritical religious people. Lots of kids make professions of faith while they are young and going to church, but only those who actually do God’s will with their lives show evidence of true saving faith.

Jesus warns his disciples to avoid the hypocritical heart that seeks attention and admiration from others for devotional activities such as fasting. While fasting for the sake of focused prayer and increased devotion to God is rare in the modern American church, our students would gain a lot by experiencing a voluntary and devotional fast.

Accept God’s act of love by trusting in Jesus to be saved from eternal death.

Jesus elaborates on the forgiveness clause of the Lord’s Prayer by telling people that forgiven people should be forgiving to those around them. But sadly, many people deceive themselves about their own standing before God, and an unforgiving heart is a certain sign of a wrong relationship with God.

Jesus tells us to pray for our basic needs, forgiveness from sin, and protection from temptation and sin. The problem is, entitled people don’t pray because they think God owes them, and self-sufficient people don’t pray because they don’t think they need God. We ought with an attitude of genuine dependence on God.