Our desire is to discover God’s great salvation history, the truest of true stories, and embrace this meta-narrative as our own. We aim to start at the beginning in Genesis and work our way through the Bible chronologically to grasp the totality and fullness of God’s sovereign plan of redemption. We will trace the time-line of God’s actions through the course of the only history that redeems all of history. Instead of isolating Jesus from salvation history we will seek to
understand Jesus and our discipleship in the light of this providential trajectory of humility and triumph. We want to stay in the story of Jesus Christ and his grace, for the sake of fulfilling our mission, growing in Christ and doing theology. The student should acquire an ability to describe the course of salvation history through each biblical book, to highlight the major theme of each book, and to explain the interrelationship of each part to the whole. Everybody has a story but only one story redeems our story. This is the coherent, compelling story that we seek to comprehend and communicate with all our heart and mind.
Chapter 1 Preface and Introduction to Stay in the Story
Chapter 2 In the Beginning – Genesis 1-2
Chapter 3 From Eden to Babel – Genesis 3-11
Chapter 4 The Faith of Abraham – Genesis 12-25
Chapter 5 The God of Jacob – Genesis 25-36
Chapter 6 Joseph – The Promise Bearer – Genesis 37-50
Chapter 7 Yahweh is – I Am -Exodus 1-14
Chapter 8 Life in the Wilderness – Exodus 15-40
Chapter 9 Holiness – Leviticus 1-27
Chapter 10 Guidance in the Wilderness – Numbers 1-36
Chapter 11 The Message of Moses – Deuteronomy 1-34
Chapter 12 The Gospel According to Job – Job 1-42
Chapter 13 Preface – The Promised Land – Joshua 1-24
Chapter 14 The Judge of Judges – Judges 1-21
Chapter 15 Ruth’s Reward – Ruth 1-4
Chapter 16 To Obey is Better than Sacrifice- I Samuel 1-15
Chapter 17 Praying our Pain – The Psalms
Chapter 18 Praying our Praise – The Psalms
Chapter 19 Solomon in All His Glory – I Kings 1-11;2 Chronicles 1-9
Chapter 20 Wisdom’s Story- Proverbs
Chapter 21 Wisdom Under the Sun – Ecclesiastes
Chapter 22 The Song of Songs – Song of Solomon
Chapter 23 Elijah – 1 Kings 12-19
Chapter 24 Elisha – Remnant and the Cross – 1 Kings 19- 2 Kings 8
Chapter 25 Joel and the Valley of Decision – Joel 1-3
Chapter 26 The Sign of Jonah – Jonah 1-4
Chapter 27 Yahweh Roars and Amos Prophesies – Amos 1-9
Chapter 28 Hosea’s Love Story – Hosea 1-14
Chapter 29 Isaiah’s Vision of the Holy One of Israel – Isaiah 1-6
Chapter 30 Isaiah’s Message – Isaiah 7-12
Chapter 31 The Lord of the Nations – Isaiah 13-39
Chapter 32 The Servant of the Lord – Isaiah 40-55
Chapter 33 The Anointed One – Isaiah 56-66
Chapter 34 Micah
Chapter 35 Josiah’s True Repentance
Chapter 36 Habakkuk’s Burden – Habakkuk 1-3
Chapter 37 Zephaniah’s Day of the Lord – Zephaniah 1-3
Chapter 38 The Call of Jeremiah – Jeremiah 1-6
Chapter 39 Jeremiah’s Temple Sermon – Jeremiah 7-11
Chapter 40 The Confessions of Jeremiah – Jeremiah 12-20
Chapter 41 Bad Leadership – Jeremiah 21-26
Chapter 42 The Future Hope – Jeremiah 27-39
Chapter 43 The New Covenant – Jeremiah 30-31
Chapter 44 A Gethsemane Life – Jeremiah 32-38, Lamentations 1-5
Chapter 45 Resisting Renewal – Jeremiah 46-52
Chapter 46 A Prophet to the Nations – Jeremiah 46-52
Chapter 47 Ezekiel – Strengthened by God – Ezekial 1-48
Chapter 48 Daniel’s Stories and Visions – Daniel 1-3
Chapter 49 Enlarge Your Vision – Daniel 4-5
Chapter 50 Belshazzar’s Banquet – Daniel 5
Chapter 51 The God of Daniel – Daniel 6
Chapter 52 Daniel’s Prophecy of the End – Daniel 7-12
Chapter 53 Obadiah’s New Day
Chapter 54 Ezra – Moving the Past forward – Ezra 1-10
Chapter 55 Haggai – The Material God – Haggai 1-21
Chapter 56 Zechariah’s Vision of the Household of Faith – Zechariah 1-8
Chapter 57 The Shepherd King – Zechariah 9-14
Chapter 58 Ezra and the Second Exodus – Ezra 6-19
Chapter 59 The Hidden God of Esther – Esther 1-10
Chapter 60 Nehemiah’s Stay in the Story Legacy – Nehemiah 1-13
Chapter 61 Malachi’s Crisis – Malachi 1-4