Week 1 | Mary's Song of Praise

Course Structure

This course is composed of four lessons, with each lesson centered around a prophecy or song of praise within the birth story of Jesus in Luke 1-2. Within each lesson, we will give you a glimpse into one of the Bible study methods taught in our other courses. For those of you familiar with those methods, we trust this will prove a helpful reminder of the key aspects of each method. For those of you unfamiliar, the aim is to give you enough information to begin to apply the central principles in your assignment, and enough to understand our study together during the Facebook Live events.
As listed on the course homepage, here is an outline of the text and methods of focus:

Course outline
Dates
Passage
Method
FB Live
Discussion
Nov. 29-Dec. 5
Mary’s Song of Praise (Luke 1:46–55)
Paraphrase
Dec. 1st
Dec. 3rd at 8pm (est)
Dec. 6-12
Zechariah’s Prophecy (Luke 1:67–80)
Bracketing
Dec. 8th
Dec. 10th at 8 pm (est) - cancelled
Dec. 13-19
Angels & Shepherds (Luke 2:8–20)
Phrasing
Dec. 15th
Dec. 17th at 8 pm (est) - cancelled
Dec. 20-26
Simeon’s Blessing (Luke 2:22–35)
Arcing
Dec. 22nd
n/a
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In addition to these central aspects of the course, each lesson will also contain a step dedicated to suggested family activities related to the passage of study, a study guide with background information on the text, and a final step presenting student work of note.
That’s the plan. Ready to jump in?

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