Bonham Bereans

We are currently studying Deuteronomy!

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Acts 17:10-11 - The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Berean Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

Calvary Bonham Bereans are for younger adults (18-40ish) and anyone else interested in digging deep into the Word of God. Cody Lee and Chris Flanagan teach verse by verse every Sunday. Each week, there will be a “backgrounds” video that examines at the culture and context of the passage we are studying.

Being a Berean means we “trust but verify.” We don’t blindly accept any teaching but we search out the Scriptures for ourselves to confirm whether the things we believe are so.

Bereans schedule and class materials:

    • A review of the major verses and themes we have studied in Genesis during the past year.

    • Class: Video

    • Cody Notes: PDF

    • Chris Backgrounds: Video

    Genesis Video Playlists

    • Passage: Genesis 50

    • Passage: Genesis 49

    • Class: Video

    • Cody Notes: PDF

    • Chris Backgrounds:

      • Video verse-by-verse

      • Targum reading of Genesis 49 - The Targum is an ancient paraphrase/commentary of the Hebrew Bible originally done in Aramaic sometime after the time of Jesus. While it is not inspired, it does give us a sense of how Jews around the time of Jesus might have interpreted Genesis 49.

    • Passage: Genesis 47

    • Passage: Genesis 47

    • Passage: Genesis 46

    • Passage: Genesis 45

    • Passage: Genesis 44

    • Passage: Genesis 43

    • Passage: Genesis 42

    • Passage: Genesis 41

    • Passage: Genesis 40

    • Passage: Genesis 39

    • Passage: Genesis 38

    • Passage: Genesis 37

    • Passage: Genesis 35-36

    • Passage: Genesis 34

    • Class: Video

    • Cody Notes: PDF

    • Chris Backgrounds: Video

    • Passage: Genesis 33

    • Cody Notes: PDF (no class video)

    • Chris Backgrounds: Video

    • Passage: Genesis 32

    • Class: Video :

    • Cody Notes: PDF

    • Chris Backgrounds: Video

    • Passage: Genesis 31

    • Class: Video (Jonathan Ku):

    • Cody Notes: PDF

    • Chris Backgrounds: Video

    • Passage: Genesis 30

    • Passage: Genesis 29

    • Passage: Genesis 28

    • Passage: Genesis 27

    • Passage: Genesis 26

    • Passage: Genesis 25

    • Passage: Genesis 24

      • Part 1: Gen 24:1-32

      • Part 2: Gen 24:33-67

    • Passage: Genesis 23

    • Passage: Genesis 22

    • Passage: Genesis 21:1-21

    • Class: Video | PDF

    Next Lesson: 2/12/2023 - Genesis 22 - Backgrounds: Video

    • Passage: Genesis 20, 21:22-34

    • Class: Video | PDF

    Next Lesson: 2/5/2023 - Genesis 21/22

    • Passage: Genesis 19

    • Backgrounds: No Backgrounds due to Chris being in Israel

    Next Lesson: 1/29/2023 - Genesis 20, 21:22-34

    • Passage: Genesis 18

    • Backgrounds: No Backgrounds due to Chris being in Israel

    Next Lesson: 1/22/2023 - Genesis 19

  • Here God makes a covenant with Abram and confirms His promise to him about a son. God's covenant with Abram concerns two important items: a seed and a land. He reveals Himself to Abram by a new name—El Shaddai, the Almighty God—and He also gives Abram a new name.

    • Passage: Genesis 17

    Next Lesson: 1/15/2023 - Genesis 18

  • God reiterates His promise to Abram, who believes and it is credited to him as righteousness. God then makes unilateral covenant with Abram.

    • Passage: Genesis 16

    • Class: Video | PDF

    • Backgrounds: Video | Audio | PDF

    Next Lesson: 1/8/2023 - Genesis 17

  • God reiterates His promise to Abram, who believes and it is credited to him as righteousness. God then makes unilateral covenant with Abram.

    Next Lesson: 12/18/2022 - Genesis 16

  • Four Mesopotamian kings attack five Canaanite kings and take Lot captive. Abraham, as the kinsman redeemer, musters his personal army of 318 men and catches up with the Mesopotamians near what would become knows as Dan. He pursues them to Damascus where he successfully retrieves Lot. On his way back to Hebron, Abraham is met by the kind and priest of Salem, Melchizidek to whom Abraham offers tithes and shares a meal of bread and wine.

    • Passage: Genesis 14

    • Class: Video | PDF |

    Next Lesson: 12/11/2022 - Genesis 15

  • Abram’s and Lot’s possessions cause strife. Abram decides they should separate and gives Lot first choice. Lot pitches his tent towards Sodom because it was pleasing to the eye. Abram trusts God to provide.

    Next Lesson: 12/3/2022 - Genesis 14

  • Call of Abram, Building Altars, Abraham’s 10 tests, In Egypt

    Next Lesson: 11/27/22 - Genesis 13

  • Table of nations, Tower of Babel, Line of Seth to Abraham

    • Passage: Genesis 10-11

    • Class: Video | PDF

    Next Lesson: 11/20/22 - Genesis 12

  • God reiterates His promise to never again to destroy all of mankind because of their deeds and sets the rainbow as a testimony of His new covenant with man. God also commands Noah regarding the sacredness of life: murder is deemed a capital offense, and while man is permitted to eat the meat of animals, he is forbidden to eat flesh or blood taken from a living animal. Noah plants a vineyard and becomes drunk on its produce. Two of Noah’s sons, Shem and Japheth, are blessed for covering up their father’s nakedness, while his third son, Ham, is punished for taking advantage of his debasement.”

    • Passage: Genesis 9

    • Class: Video | PDF

    Next Lesson: 11/13/22 - Genesis 10 & 11 (No Genesis lesson 11/6/22)

  • The ark settles on Mount Ararat, and Noah dispatches a raven, and then a series of doves, “to see if the waters were abated from the face of the earth.” When the ground dries completely God commands Noah to exit the ark and repopulate the earth. Noah builds an altar and offers sacrifices to God. God swears never again to destroy all of mankind because of their deeds.

    Next Lesson: 10/30/22 - Genesis 9

  • Rain falls for 40 days and nights, and the waters churn for 150 days more before calming and beginning to recede.

  • God instructs Noah—the only righteous man in a world consumed by violence and corruption—to build a large wooden ark, coated within and without with pitch. A great deluge, says God, will wipe out all life from the face of the earth; but the ark will float upon the water, sheltering Noah and his family, and two members (male and female) of each animal species (and 7 of the "pure" species).

  • Eve gives birth to two sons, Cain and Abel. Cain quarrels with Abel and murders him and becomes a rootless wanderer, with wicked descendants.

    A third son, Seth, is born to Adam. Enoch, the 7th from Adam walked with God, then was taken up without dying. Noah, the tenth from Adam, is the only righteous man in a corrupt world.

    Is there a hidden message in Genesis 5?

    • Passage: Genesis 4:1-5:35

    • Class: Video | PDF

    Next Lesson: 10/9/22 - Genesis 6

  • At the end of chapter two, Adam and Eve are placed in the Garden of Eden and commanded not to eat from the “Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.”

    The serpent persuades Eve to violate the command, and she shares the forbidden fruit with her husband. Because of their sin, it is decreed that man will experience death, returning to the soil from which he was formed and that all gain will come only through struggle and hardship. Man is banished from the Garden.

    • Passage: Genesis 3

    Next Lesson: 10/2/22 - Genesis 4

  • God ceases work on the seventh day, and sanctifies it as a day of rest. God forms the human body from the dust of the earth, and blows into his nostrils a “living soul.” Originally Man is a single person, but deciding that “it is not good that man be alone,” God takes a "side" from the man, forms it into a woman, and marries them to each other. Adam and Eve are placed in the Garden of Eden, and commanded not to eat from the “Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.”

    • Passage: Genesis 2:1-25

  • Days 5, 6, and 7 with man made in God’s image as the pinnacle of God’s creation. Man is given dominion. God calls everything he made “VERY good.” God institutes Shabbat and sanctifies it as a day of rest.

    • Passage: Genesis 1:20-2:3

    Next Lesson: 9/17/22 - Genesis 2:4-25

    • Passage: Genesis 1:1-19 (click to read or listen)

    • Passage: Genesis 1:1 (click to read or listen)

    • Class: Video | Handout

    • Backgrounds: Video | Slides (PDF)

    • Verse 1 in Hebrew (listen to audio below)

      • בְּרֵאשִׁית בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ

      • B’reisheet bara Elohim et ha-shamaiym ve’et ha-aretz

  • Final Challenge!

    Class videos playlist

    Backgrounds videos playlist

    Cody Written Commentary (PDF)

    Chris Written Commentary - talmidimway.org/commentary/revelation/

Berean Class Video Playlist

Background Video Playlist: