Covenant: How to Use This Study
Before Week 1: what a covenant is, how inductive Bible study works, and how to use this 12-week series alone or with a group.
Week 1: God Binds Himself (Genesis 9:8–17)
After the flood, God makes a covenant with every living thing, asks nothing in return, and hangs a sign in the sky to show it.
Week 2: Cutting a Covenant (Genesis 15:1–21)
Abram asks how he can know God's promise is sure. God answers with a strange ceremony, and only God passes between the pieces.
Week 3: A Covenant You Carry in Your Body (Genesis 17:1–14)
God renames Abram, calls the covenant everlasting, and gives a sign to be carried in the body by every generation of his household.
Week 4: God Remembers (Exodus 2:23–25 and 6:2–8)
Israel groans in slavery, and God remembers his covenant. In the Bible, God's remembering is never a lapse. It is his promise moving into action.
Week 5: Blood of the Covenant at Sinai (Exodus 19:3–6 and 24:3–8)
At Sinai, God reminds Israel what he has already done, offers them a calling, and seals the covenant in blood as the people answer, "We will do.”
Week 6: Steadfast Love and Faithfulness (Exodus 34:5–7)
Right after Israel breaks the covenant with a golden calf, God tells Moses his name, and at the center of it are steadfast love and faithfulness.
Week 7: Loved Because He Loved You (Deuteronomy 7:6–12)
Why did God choose Israel? Not because they were big or impressive, but because he loved them and kept the oath he swore.
Week 8: Choose This Day (Joshua 24:14–27)
At Shechem, an aging Joshua gathers all Israel to renew the covenant. The whole people must decide together whom they will serve.
Week 9: A House Forever (2 Samuel 7:8–16 with 23:1–5)
David wants to build God a house. God answers that he will build David a house, a kingdom and throne established forever.
Week 10: When It Looks Like God Broke His Word (Psalm 89:1–4, 28–37)
Psalm 89 sings God's sworn promise to David, then cries out when it seems broken. Lament is not the opposite of faith; it is faith inside covenant.
Week 11: Written on the Heart (Jeremiah 31:31–34 with Ezekiel 36:24–28)
In the darkness of exile, God promises a new covenant: his law written on the heart, a new spirit within, and sins remembered no more.
Week 12: The New Covenant in His Blood (Luke 22:14–20 with Hebrews 8:6–13)
At the Last Supper, Jesus takes the cup and names it the new covenant in his blood. Every thread of God's covenant faithfulness meets in him.
Holiness: How to Use This Study
Twelve weeks in Scripture on what it means that God is holy and calls his people holy, and how to walk through each lesson alone or with a group.
Week 1: The First Holy Thing Was a Day (Genesis 2:1–3)
Before there was a temple, a priest, or a holy people, God set apart a day. Holiness begins with God, his rest, and his order.
Week 2: Take Off Your Sandals (Exodus 3:1–6)
A shepherd turns aside to see a burning bush and finds himself on holy ground. Holiness is God's presence, and it changes how we stand.
Week 3: A Holy Nation (Exodus 19:1–6)
At Sinai, God calls a whole people, not just a few priests, to be holy. Holiness begins with rescue and is lived out in belonging.
Week 4: Holy and Common (Leviticus 10:1–11)
On the worst day of Aaron's life, God gives him a calling: to tell the holy from the common. A command spoken into grief, shaped like creation.
Week 5: Be Holy, for I Am Holy (Leviticus 11:44–45; 19:1–4)
Israel's holiness is grounded not in ritual for its own sake but in who God is. His character is the reason, the pattern, and the power.
Week 6: Holiness on the Farm and in the Neighborhood (Leviticus 19:9–18)
Field edges, paychecks, the deaf and the blind, a grudge you're nursing: in Leviticus 19, holiness walks right out into everyday life.