Go on a rapid tour of the whole Bible and see how all the promises God has made are fulfilled in His Son.
Part of the Good Book Guides series.
One Saturday, less than a decade after the end of Jesus of Nazareth’s life, a man named Paul stood up in a Jewish synagogue with a mind-blowing message.
“We tell you the good news,” he said. “What God promised our fathers, he has fulfilled for us, their children, by raising up Jesus” (Acts 13 v 33-34).
In many ways, in these two sentences Paul was summing up the story of the whole of the Bible.
God is a promise-making God. Throughout history, He has made huge, extravagant, wonderful promises to humanity. Crucially, God is also a promise-keeping God. What He says, He does. And at a particular point in history, He fulfilled all of His promises in the life, death, resurrection and rule of one human—Jesus, a carpenter from a small Jewish town. The good news is that God's promises are promises kept.
This Bible study for small groups will take you on a rapid tour of the whole story of the Bible. Over nine sessions, you’ll travel from the garden of Eden to God’s perfect new creation. Each session you'll discover one of God's wonderful promises, and see how He kept it in Jesus.
It’s a whirlwind tour. It’s a breathtaking tour. And it’s a tour we’re part of…
Introduction
Why study Promises Kept?
1. A very good world - Genesis 1
2. Broken by rebellion - Genesis 3
3. Covenant promises - Genesis 12
4. Delivered from judgment - Exodus 12
5. Everlasting King - Judges 2, 2 Samuel 7
6. Future beyond judgment - Amos 8 – 9
7. God in His world - Luke 9, 24
8. Hear the message! - Acts 1 – 2
9. In a perfect world - Revelation 21 – 22
Leader's Guide
| Contributors | Carl Laferton |
|---|---|
| ISBN | 9781908317933 |
| Format | Paperback |
| Dimensions | 140mm x 210mm x 7mm |
| Weight | 0.14 kg |
| Print size | 9.0pt |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 112 |
| No. of studies | 9 |
| Publisher | The Good Book Company |
The Good Book Guides have been developed to ensure that each session not only seeks to uncover the meaning of the passage and see how it fits into the big picture of the Bible, but also leads people to apply what they have learnt to their lives. Flexible and practical, the Good Book Guides are ideal for small groups, or individual study.
The format is very user-friendly and the content is rich and accessible.
- Justin Taylor, Gospel Coalition blogger and Vice-President of Editorial, Crossway
God-centered, application-oriented, and driven by the text throughout, this resource is a gift to God’s church.
- Matt Smethurst, Gospel Coalition reviewer and Master of Divinity student at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Here at Covenant Life Church, we have greatly benefitted from the small group resources from The Good Book Company. Many small groups in our family life ministry have used "Colossians: Confident Christianity" in their study of scripture. Additionally, our youth ministry has used "Romans 1-5: God and You" in their small groups. Both resources were very easy to use, helped the reader engage directly with the scriptures, and had a wonderful pastoral emphasis demonstrated in all the questions.
- Dave Brewer, Youth Pastor at Covenant Life Church, Maryland
An outstanding study guide. Promises Kept guides us through the entire Bible, showing us Christ. Simple but never simplistic, it helps us apply the storyline of Scripture to our lives with clarity and warmth. I look forward to using it in my church.
Promises kept is a fascinating study guide on God's promises from Genesis to Revelation. It shows you how you should live and to be pleasing to God's will. The references are from the Old testament and the New testament and show you how they come to being,how one leads to the other, I am finding it so interesting and I'm learning so much on how I should be living and it's making me feel so much better. I really would recommend everybody should read this, it really is an eye opener.
The overall concept really good and I am grateful for the wonderful overview I have been invited to take.
Unfortunately the questions were too leading and simplistic and I felt I was being spoon-fed. I am using it for a group study and soon realised I have to rewrite the questions in order to get enough out of it
We found this book to provide a great over view of the bible linking in from Genesis to Revelation, several of our home groups have now used it and all have found it to be great.
