Bible Studies

Once a week, while the Illinois General Assembly is in session, we meet with legislators and their staffers for a bible study. Many of those bible studies are available below. Take a look at how we’re walking through Scripture in our ministry, we hope you’ll find it encouraging.

A Sign from Heaven? (Matthew 6:1-12)

After Jesus fed the 4000 at the end of Chapter 15, He turns His ministry toward the disciples. The 3-year public ministry has ended and intentional training for the disciples has begun. In the passage

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Follow Your Heart? (Matthew 5:10-20)

Fresh off another argument with the Pharisees and scribes in the previous ten verses of Matthew 15, Jesus teaches a crowd of people on matters of the ‘heart’. The pharisees and scribes traveled 90 miles

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Hearts Far from God (Matthew 5:1-9)

In this Chapter of the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus has His second showdown with the Sanhedrin. An accusation is made that Jesus and His disciples don’t observe the proper hand washing required in the ‘Tradition

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Walking on Water (Matthew 14)

In the previous chapter, Jesus taught in parables. He did that in order to conceal the meaning of His teachings to those who did not “have ears to hear” and while at the same time

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Kingdom Parables (Matthew 13:24-50)

In this section, Jesus has changed His approach to teaching. Rather than direct messages and miracles confirming His authority, He teaches in parables with the expressed purpose of revealing the truth to those with ‘ears

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