Holiday Specials

April 1999 - April 2025

This section includes special Bible classes taught in honor of Christian and national holidays.

Sunday, April 20, 2014
Passage: 1 Corinthians 5:7
Series: Holiday Specials
Duration: 55 mins 31 secs
Imagine you're at a Passover Seder meal celebrating the Jews' deliverance from Egypt. Listen to this lesson to learn a full breakdown of the event. See how the rituals were foreshadowing how the Messiah would someday come to earth to be the sacrificial Lamb of God. Now imagine yourself at the Last Supper with Jesus and His disciples as Jesus gave new meaning to Passover rituals. See how He established the Lord's Table as a memorial to His death and resurrection. Realize that because He died and rose again from the dead we can have peace for today and unbounded confidence for the future.
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Series: Holiday Specials
Duration: 39 mins 26 secs
2013 Christmas Special - Reflection on the Birth of Christ. Various Scriptures
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Passage: Topical
Series: Holiday Specials
Duration: 47 mins 17 secs
Physical, Bodily Resurrection: So What? Attempts to debunk the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ come from every side as critics seek to explain away its staggering and life-changing implications. Resurrection is at the center of Christianity's teaching that Jesus Christ lived on Earth, died a sacrificial death, conquered death, and remains the living Savior of all who believe. Listen to learn how history affirms the authenticity of Christ's physical resurrection and nine reasons for its significance. Grasp how belief in the resurrection sets the pattern for our present day life in Christ.
Sunday, December 23, 2012
Passage: Luke 2:1-40 & Matthew 2:1-18
Series: Holiday Specials
Duration: 1 hr 4 mins 25 secs
Rather than taking dramatic license to conform scripture to the traditional Christmas story, we would like to look at scripture to get a more literal account of this inspired event. The bottom line is the birth of our Savior, but the Holy Spirit doesn’t squander the words He inspired, so it’s helpful to consider them carefully. God orchestrated this event to take place in the “fullness of time.” What was it about this time that made it “full” and what were some historical events that support this? Was Jesus born in a barn? Was he wrapped in grave clothes? What is in Joseph’s genealogy that prevents him from being Jesus’ father? How old was Jesus when the magi brought gifts? Hear the Christmas story as scripture reveals it. Learn interesting facts surrounding the birth of Jesus and how some may differ from the traditional celebration we have come to accept.
Tuesday, July 03, 2012
Series: Holiday Specials
Duration: 1 hr 7 mins 37 secs
There is a unique way liberty and freedom were understood and applied by our founders. What was the anchor in their understanding of religious freedom? What source did they use as an absolute on which to base the world view that formed their culture? What is it that they sought freedom from? Why is there no freedom without the freedom of conscience? Is it important to have freedom to fail? What is the primary weapon against tyranny? What can we do now to protect our freedom? How do we maintain hope when our freedoms are threatened?
Sunday, April 08, 2012
Series: Holiday Specials
Duration: 1 hr 1 mins 19 secs
The Lord's Table was not something new, but a ritual which grew out of the Passover Seder, the meal Jesus had with his disciples, the night before He went to the cross–The Last Supper. In this lesson you will see a visual demonstration of a Jewish Seder and see how it visually depicts the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ and how the elements of the meal impact our understanding of the Last Supper of Christ. The emphasis of the Seder is sacrifice, a death required for sin.
Sunday, December 25, 2011
Passage: Luke 2:1-11
Series: Holiday Specials
Duration: 54 mins 58 secs
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Series: Holiday Specials
Duration: 55 mins 17 secs
As our nation commemorates the tenth anniversary of 9-11, we take a look at the religion that justifies that type of attack, followed by a very in-depth study of the history and influences that framed our Constitution. This special lesson is one every believer and lover of our country needs to listen to.
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Series: Holiday Specials
Duration: 59 mins 42 secs
How significant was the resurrection in the gospel presentation of the disciples? How did they use the resurrection within the gospel presentation? Did they appeal to the resurrection as an independent event as if that fact alone proved the message of the gospel, or did they first set a biblical message context? How we use Christian evidences is important. It is not the use of Christian evidences that is at question, but the way or the method of using evidences. Remember, a right thing done in a wrong way is wrong, and at different levels we can compromise part of the message if we present the gospel as if there are absolutes of reason, logic, history, or righteousness that somehow operate independently of God.
Sunday, January 02, 2011
Series: Holiday Specials
Duration: 55 mins 39 secs