August 7, 2023
August 13 | Discovery
These Discovery Questions are for use with this week’s Lookout Bible Lesson, “Where Is the Justice?” (Habakkuk 1:12-17; 2:1-20), by Mark Scott.
Articles for tag: Divine Sovereignty
December 26, 2016
Lesson for January 1, 2017: Praise God for Creation (Psalm 33:1-9)
Dr. Mark Scott wrote this treatment of the International Sunday School Lesson. Scott teaches preaching and New Testament at Ozark Christian College, Joplin, Missouri. This lesson treatment is published in the December 25, 2016, issue of The Lookout magazine, and is also available online at www.lookoutmag.com. ______ By Mark Scott Mother Nature is not God”s wife, but creation is God”s gift. It is therefore obvious that God”s people praise him for that gift. And it is right to start that praise on the first day of a new year. Creation arose from the character and power of God and finds its foundation in his identity.
August 8, 2016
Lesson for August 14, 2016: Living Under God’s Mercy (Romans 9:6-18)
Dr. Mark Scott wrote this treatment of the International Sunday School Lesson. Scott teaches preaching and New Testament at Ozark Christian College, Joplin, Missouri. This lesson treatment is published in the August 7 issue of The Lookout magazine, and is also available online at www.lookoutmag.com. ______ By Mark Scott In the church at Rome, there was tension that you could cut with a circumcision knife. The Jews thought the Gentiles obeyed God”s laws rather flippantly. The Gentiles thought the Jews had squandered their place as God”s people. Paul”s teaching in this text is that both groups have to live under God”s mercy. God”s plan to
March 4, 2007
Calvinism and the Bible (Part 2)
This article is no longer available online, but the entire four-part series is available for purchase as a downloadable resource/pdf. Considering Calvinism “¢ Item 02972 “¢ $4.99 What is Calvinism? How should we feel about what it teaches? How does Calvinism contrast with what we believe to be a more biblical view of sin and salvation? Jack Cottrell examines the essence and errors of Calvinism in this 10-page resource that originally appeared as a four-part series in CHRISTIAN STANDARD. The articles focus on “Sovereignty and Free Will According to Calvinism” and “According to the Bible,” and a two-part explanation and
January 7, 2007
Can We Know the Future of the Church?
By Jeff Walling The Weather Channel shocked me one morning recently by saying visibility was going to be “unlimited.” Wow! That”s a day I don”t want to miss. Think of it, to look out your window and see forever! I could see my children”s future. I could see our country”s future. I could even see our church”s future. What a disappointment that the trees in my neighbor”s yard were blocking my view. If I could just get above the trees, what could I really see? But there”s the rub. As a Christian, do I believe someone can actually “see the
November 26, 2006
Does God Know the Word ‘Perhaps’? (Part 2)
By Patrick Nullens  We opened our inquiry and first article with the simple question of a child: “Does God know the word perhaps?” According to open theism, God is all-wise but does not have meticulous foreknowledge. Based on a full knowledge of the past and present, God can only make an astute guess about our responses. According to classical theists, God also knows perhaps, but it is essentially different from our understanding. God does not know uncertainties as we do. He knows exactly everything that will happen, including our own free choices. Whatever one might believe about classical theism
