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We all need an authoritative source—someone or something—to give us the answers we need to our core life questions. The Bible claims to give us THE Truth about life; not A truth, but THE Truth. At the center of this TRUTH is the person of Jesus Christ. This week, we are going to consider why…

In our last reading for the week, we consider how the Master Story creates the context that is needed to understand why the message about Jesus is Good News – the Gospel. Over the next couple of weeks, we are going to be shifting our focus to the Gospel. Before we get there is it…

Today, we continue to discuss Paul’ speech in Athens and how it illuminates the answers to some of our fundamental life questions: Who is God? What is the purpose of life? Where are we heading? How will things end?

Life comes to us as a Story; it has a beginning, middle, and an end. We need a larger story, a Master Story, in order to answer the foundational questions about life.  2 Timothy 3:14–15…continue in what you have learned and firmly believed. You know those who taught you, and you know that from childhood…

We all have questions about life that we need to have answered: Who are we? Where have we come from? Why are we here? How will our lives turn out? This week, we are going to consider the basic answers that the Bible gives to these foundational questions and how Jesus plays a central role…

John 5:39–40  [Jesus said,] “You study the Scriptures throughly because you think you have eternal life in them. Yet they testify about Me! And you are not willing to come to Me so that you may have life.”

Today, we finish our “birds-eye-view” of the Master Story revealed in the Bible. At the end of this present age of human history, Jesus will return to set things right.

Today, we begin to trace the Master Story revealed in the Bible. Looking at things from a high view, we will see how the Bible answers some of our fundamental life questions: Where have we come from? Where are things headed? Why are we here?

Meaning is one of the greatest needs in human life, one of our deepest hungers —perhaps it is, in the final analysis, the most basic need in the realm of the human experience.” ~ Dallas Willard, Renovation of the Heart ~

This week, we begin with a review and overview. We review what we shared last week and we give a brief preview of our readings for this week.