Bible Band
SPRING QUARTER
MARCH APRIL MAY 2000
MARCH:
First Week A Literary Miracle
Second Week God's Message To Man
Third Week The Scientific Accuracy Of The Bible
Fourth Week Is It Good To Be Afflicted
 
APRIL:
First Week People Turning To God
Second Week The Old Man And The New Man
Third Week Try Christ
Fourth Week The Mark Of A Good Teacher
 
MAY:
First Week Living To Serve
Second Week A Great Life In This World
Third Week The Power Of Kindness
Fourth Week Dressing To Follow Jesus
  Fifth Week Having Eyes, But Not Seeing
Editor: Mrs. Francis S. Curtis
Bishop Chandler. D. Owens, Presiding Bishop
 
First Week  
A LITERARY MIRACLE

BIBLE BASIS:  Lesson Scripture:  II Peter 1:18-21.

DEVOTIONAL READING: II Peter 1.

CENTRAL VERSE:  "All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness."

II Timothy 3:16
 
 Second Week
March  
A LITERARY MIRACLE

BIBLE BASIS:  Lesson Scripture:  Isaiah 9: 2-7.

DEVOTIONAL READING: Matthew 1: 20-23.

CENTRAL VERSE:  "Have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God?"

Matthew 22:31
 
Third Week
March
THE SCIENTIFIC ACCURACY OF THE BIBLE

BIBLE BASIS:  Lesson Scripture:  Colossians 1: 16-17.

DEVOTIONAL READING: Genesis 1.

CENTRAL VERSE:  "He stretcheth out the north over the empty place and hangeth the earth upon nothing."

Job 26:7
 
Fourth Week
March 
A LITERARY MIRACLE

BIBLE BASIS:  Lesson Scripture:  Psalm 119: 65-72.

DEVOTIONAL READING: Psalm 119: 75.

CENTRAL VERSE:  "It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes."

Psalm 119: 71
 
First Week
April
PEOPLE TURNING TO GOD

BIBLE BASIS:  Lesson Scripture:  Isaiah 1: 10-19.

DEVOTIONAL READING: Luke 24: 26-27.

CENTRAL VERSE:  "Come now and let us reason together, saith the Lord:  though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool."

Isaiah 1: 18
 
Second Week
April
THE OLD MAN AND THE NEW MAN

BIBLE BASIS:  Lesson Scripture:  Ephesians 4: 20-23.

DEVOTIONAL READING: Ephesians 4.

CENTRAL VERSE:  "And that ye put on the new man, which after God is Created in righteousness and true holiness."

Ephesians 4: 24
 
Third Week
April
TRY CHRIST

BIBLE BASIS:  Lesson Scripture:  I Corinthians 2: 1-5.

DEVOTIONAL READING: Psalm 121: 1, 2.

CENTRAL VERSE:  "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me."

Philippians 4: 13
 
Fourth Week
April
THE MARK OF A GOOD TEACHER

BIBLE BASIS:  Lesson Scripture:  Ephesians 4: 7-12.

DEVOTIONAL READING: Isaiah 28: 9-12.

CENTRAL VERSE:  "Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me and know my thoughts:  And see if there be any wicked way in me and lead me in the way everlasting."

Psalm 139: 23, 24
 
First Week
May
LIVING TO SERVE

BIBLE BASIS:  Lesson Scripture:  Matthew 16: 24-27.

DEVOTIONAL READING: Matthew 6: 24.

CENTRAL VERSE:  "My meat is to do the will of Him that sent me, and to...  finish his work."

John 4: 34
 
Second Week
May
A GREAT LIFE IN THIS WORLD

BIBLE BASIS:  Lesson Scripture:  Colossians 3: 12-17.

DEVOTIONAL READING: I John 2: 15-17.

CENTRAL VERSE:  "He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it."

Matthew 10: 39
 
Third Week
May
THE POWER OF KINDNESS

BIBLE BASIS:  Lesson Scripture:  Acts 3: 1-7.

DEVOTIONAL READING: Isaiah 63: 7.

CENTRAL VERSE:  "And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you."

Ephesians 4: 32
 
Fourth Week
May
DRESSING TO FOLLOW JESUS

BIBLE BASIS:  Lesson Scripture:  Ephesians 6: 10-18.

DEVOTIONAL READING: Ephesians 6: 12.

CENTRAL VERSE:  "For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake."

Acts 9: 16
Fifth Week
May
HAVING EYES, BUT NOT SEEING

BIBLE BASIS:  Lesson Scripture:  Mark 8: 14-18.

DEVOTIONAL READING: Numbers 13: 1, 2, 17-21.

CENTRAL VERSE:  "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help.  My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth."

Psalm 121: 1-2


*Last update:  Wednesday, April 19, 2000

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