Week LI: Haggai 1-Zechariah 10, Psalms 134-139

Together we have moved through the fall of Assyria to the rise and fall of Babylon and now we will study a prophet of the Persian period of imperial dominance - Haggai.

Questions -

1 - What promises of God do you experience as “already and not yet” or both present and future?

2 - How do you maintain hope in the midst of this tension?

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Week L: Habakkuk 1-Zephaniah 3, Psalms 128-133

Our continued study for he Minor Prophets leads us to consider three books that share a common theme - Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah. Taken together, they may be seen as “Prophets of the Day of the Lord” or prophets with a triumphalist notion of God as ultimate conqueror.

Questions -

1 - When have you felt God was on your side and not on someone else’s side?

2 - How do you reconcile this feeling with an understanding that God is God of all creation?

3 - How does praying for the “other” open your own heart to a love for all, even your enemy?

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Week XLIX: Micah 5-Nahum 3, Psalms 122-127

The Book of the Prophet Micah takes a more rural and agrarian perspective than Isiah. Unimpressed with the high religious claims of Jerusalem, Micah is concerned with the exploitation of the vulnerable poor that results in economic disparity and injustice.

Questions -

1 - How do you do justice?

2 - How do you love kindness and mercy?

3 - How do you walk humbly with God?

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