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The Nicene Creed: Second Month—Day 22

And I look for the resurrection of the dead,

Scripture

I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. (Philippians 3:10-11)

Reading (Lectio)

  • Slowly read the Scripture passage several times.

Meditation (Meditatio)

  • Reflect and ruminate on the words and phrases in the text.
  • Which words, phrases, or images speak most to you?

Prayer (Oratio)

  • Offer the internalized passage back to God in the form of a personalized prayer of adoration, confession, renewal, petition, intercession, affirmation, or thanksgiving.

Contemplation (Contemplatio)

  • What word or image encapsulates the spirit of the passage for you?
  • Take a few minutes to present yourself before God in silence and yieldedness. When your mind wanders, center yourself by returning to the spirit of the passage.

Related Topics: Spiritual Life

The Nicene Creed: Second Month—Day 23

and the life of the world to come. Amen.

Scripture

When the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, He saved us, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy. He saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that having been justified by His grace, we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. (Titus 3:4-7)

Reading (Lectio)

  • Slowly read the Scripture passage several times.

Meditation (Meditatio)

  • Reflect and ruminate on the words and phrases in the text.
  • Which words, phrases, or images speak most to you?

Prayer (Oratio)

  • Offer the internalized passage back to God in the form of a personalized prayer of adoration, confession, renewal, petition, intercession, affirmation, or thanksgiving.

Contemplation (Contemplatio)

  • What word or image encapsulates the spirit of the passage for you?
  • Take a few minutes to present yourself before God in silence and yieldedness. When your mind wanders, center yourself by returning to the spirit of the passage.

Related Topics: Spiritual Life

Unraveling The Da Vinci Code

The Teaching DVD
CTL Book
 
 

 

Teaching DVD: Unraveling The Da Vinci Code

By: Kenneth Boa & Bill Ibsen
1hour 49minutes in length
 
 
Summary:
This DVD is a useful tool for personal or small group study.
 
Description:
As the NY Times #1 bestseller for an extensive time period, The Da Vinci Code has become one of the bestselling adult novels of our time. Packed with highly controversial claims about history, art, and Christianity, many have wondered what is truth and what is fiction in this book. Dr. Ken Boa unravels many of these mysteries in this audio/visual exposé not only by visiting key sites mentioned in the book, but also by considering the historical, artistic, and theological aspects to this fast-paced thriller. Dr. Boa will thoroughly answer the three key questions raised by this novel:
  • Why Is The Da Vinci Code So Popular?
  • Which Parts Are Fact and Which Are Fiction?
  • What Are the Implications of the Main Point of this Book?

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The Athanasian Creed: Second Month—Day 24

1-3. Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the catholic faith, which faith except every one do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly. And the catholic faith is this, that we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity.

Scripture

Jesus is the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Him. (John 14:6)

Reading (Lectio)

  • Slowly read the Scripture passage several times.

Meditation (Meditatio)

  • Reflect and ruminate on the words and phrases in the text.
  • Which words, phrases, or images speak most to you?

Prayer (Oratio)

  • Offer the internalized passage back to God in the form of a personalized prayer of adoration, confession, renewal, petition, intercession, affirmation, or thanksgiving.

Contemplation (Contemplatio)

  • What word or image encapsulates the spirit of the passage for you?
  • Take a few minutes to present yourself before God in silence and yieldedness. When your mind wanders, center yourself by returning to the spirit of the passage.

Related Topics: Spiritual Life

The Athanasian Creed: Second Month—Day 25

4. Neither confounding the Persons, nor dividing the substance.

Scripture

The Lord Jesus prayed these words for the unity of all who would believe in Him: “I ask that all of them may be one, Father, just as You are in Me and I am in You, that they also may be in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. And the glory which You gave Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one: I in them, and You in Me, that they may be perfected in one, that the world may know that You have sent Me and have loved them, even as You have loved Me.” (John 17:21-23)

Reading (Lectio)

  • Slowly read the Scripture passage several times.

Meditation (Meditatio)

  • Reflect and ruminate on the words and phrases in the text.
  • Which words, phrases, or images speak most to you?

Prayer (Oratio)

  • Offer the internalized passage back to God in the form of a personalized prayer of adoration, confession, renewal, petition, intercession, affirmation, or thanksgiving.

Contemplation (Contemplatio)

  • What word or image encapsulates the spirit of the passage for you?
  • Take a few minutes to present yourself before God in silence and yieldedness. When your mind wanders, center yourself by returning to the spirit of the passage.

Related Topics: Spiritual Life

The Athanasian Creed: Second Month—Day 26

5. For there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Spirit.

Scripture

The Lord Jesus Christ received honor and glory from God the Father when the voice came to Him from the Majestic Glory who said, “This is My beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.” (2 Peter 1:17)

Reading (Lectio)

  • Slowly read the Scripture passage several times.

Meditation (Meditatio)

  • Reflect and ruminate on the words and phrases in the text.
  • Which words, phrases, or images speak most to you?

Prayer (Oratio)

  • Offer the internalized passage back to God in the form of a personalized prayer of adoration, confession, renewal, petition, intercession, affirmation, or thanksgiving.

Contemplation (Contemplatio)

  • What word or image encapsulates the spirit of the passage for you?
  • Take a few minutes to present yourself before God in silence and yieldedness. When your mind wanders, center yourself by returning to the spirit of the passage.

Related Topics: Spiritual Life

The Athanasian Creed: Second Month—Day 27

6-7. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, is all one: the glory equal, the majesty coeternal. Such as the Father is, such is the Son, and such is the Holy Spirit.

Scripture

Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was well-pleasing in Your sight. All things have been delivered to Me by My Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.” (Matthew 11:25-27; Luke 10:21-22)

Reading (Lectio)

  • Slowly read the Scripture passage several times.

Meditation (Meditatio)

  • Reflect and ruminate on the words and phrases in the text.
  • Which words, phrases, or images speak most to you?

Prayer (Oratio)

  • Offer the internalized passage back to God in the form of a personalized prayer of adoration, confession, renewal, petition, intercession, affirmation, or thanksgiving.

Contemplation (Contemplatio)

  • What word or image encapsulates the spirit of the passage for you?
  • Take a few minutes to present yourself before God in silence and yieldedness. When your mind wanders, center yourself by returning to the spirit of the passage.

Related Topics: Spiritual Life

The Athanasian Creed: Second Month—Day 28

8. The Father uncreated, the Son uncreated, and the Holy Spirit uncreated.

Scripture

Blessed are You, O Lord, God of Israel, our father, forever and ever. Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for everything in heaven and earth is Yours. Yours, O Lord, is the kingdom, and You are exalted as head over all. Both riches and honor come from You, and You are the ruler of all things. In Your hand is power and might to exalt and to give strength to all. Therefore, my God, I give You thanks and praise Your glorious name. (1 Chronicles 29:10-13)

Reading (Lectio)

  • Slowly read the Scripture passage several times.

Meditation (Meditatio)

  • Reflect and ruminate on the words and phrases in the text.
  • Which words, phrases, or images speak most to you?

Prayer (Oratio)

  • Offer the internalized passage back to God in the form of a personalized prayer of adoration, confession, renewal, petition, intercession, affirmation, or thanksgiving.

Contemplation (Contemplatio)

  • What word or image encapsulates the spirit of the passage for you?
  • Take a few minutes to present yourself before God in silence and yieldedness. When your mind wanders, center yourself by returning to the spirit of the passage.

Related Topics: Spiritual Life

The Athanasian Creed: Second Month—Day 29

9. The Father unlimited, the Son unlimited, and the Holy Spirit unlimited.

Scripture

God is the maker of the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades,
And the constellations of the south.
He does great things that cannot be fathomed
And wonderful works that cannot be counted. (Job 9:9-10)

Reading (Lectio)

    Slowly read the Scripture passage several times.

Meditation (Meditatio)

  • Reflect and ruminate on the words and phrases in the text.
  • Which words, phrases, or images speak most to you?

Prayer (Oratio)

  • Offer the internalized passage back to God in the form of a personalized prayer of adoration, confession, renewal, petition, intercession, affirmation, or thanksgiving.

Contemplation (Contemplatio)

  • What word or image encapsulates the spirit of the passage for you?
  • Take a few minutes to present yourself before God in silence and yieldedness. When your mind wanders, center yourself by returning to the spirit of the passage.

Related Topics: Spiritual Life

How To Use Redeeming The Da Vinci Code

How to Use "Redeeming The Da Vinci Code"

Step 1: Understand the tremendous opportunity this movie presents for strengthening the faith of your group and engaging non-Christians in meaningful discussions about Jesus. Make a commitment not to let this opportunity pass by because you were unprepared. Determine the best strategy for equipping everyone in your church or organization to respond to this great equipping and outreach opportunity. Select your preferred venue: small group study or large group seminar.

 

  • Small group study: The tool kit is ideal as a small group curriculum. The facilitator guide provides everything needed for a person with little or no knowledge of The Da Vinci Code to lead a stimulating study with group discussion. Of course, any facilitator who reads the novel and The Da Vinci Code: A Quest for Answers before or during the series will be better prepared. The Pocket Guide to The Da Vinci Code is an excellent resource the facilitator can use to answer questions not directly addressed in the DVD.
  • Large group seminar: In a large group setting, each DVD can be played through continuously with each participant following along in their student guide. If desired, the DVD can be paused at the end of each small group session for questions. The leader may wish to break up the audience into smaller groups to review the discussion questions in the Facilitator Guide. If a seminar setting with questions would work best for your church or organization, the leader may want read The Da Vinci Code and The Da Vinci Code: A Quest for Answers{1} prior to leading the seminar.

Step 2: Select the small group products you need.

 

  • If you will have fewer than three simultaneous small groups, purchase one leaders kit for each small group. Of course, it is possible to share leaders kits for groups that meet at different times.
  • If you have three or more simultaneous small groups, purchase the church site license. This will allow you to create seven more copies of the DVDs for use by your small group facilitators.{2}

Step 3: Review the description of the available outreach products and select the ones that fit the needs of your church or small group. Note: You may want to let small groups decide which outreach tools they want to purchase after they have reviewed the material and started their study sessions.

Step 4: Select the quantity of each outreach product you want to purchase in bulk for your members.

Step 5: Purchase the selected quantities on from the product price list by clicking on the button below.

Notes

  1. Or a similar resource, such as Breaking The Da Vinci Code, by Darrell Bock, Ph.D.
  2. If you have more than 8 simultaneous small groups, please contact us for special pricing.

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