FALL 2022 STUDIES

Childcare is available for weekday study by reservation only. Please visit briarwood.org/nursery to register.
Books are available in the Briarwood Christian Bookstore, unless otherwise noted.

Please see the description of each class below, then the registration form at the bottom of this page.

MONDAYS

Jeremiah: Speaking Truth and Hope in a Troubled World
Meets: Mondays at 10:00AM
Location: A202 and Zoom
Leader: Michele Cantley
Starts: September 12 

Study Overview:
God called Jeremiah to the role of Prophet as a young man.  Jeremiah spoke a message of God’s steadfast love and faithfulness.  At the same time, Jeremiah was called to remind the Israelites of Judah that God must punish sin.  This punishment, for violating the Covenant, came in the form of war with and exile by the Babylonians.  Yet, through this tumult, Jeremiah delivered a message of hope:  God would save a remnant of his people and establish a new covenant with them through a descendant of the house of David.  Thus, Jeremiah speaks strongly of the coming Messiah, Jesus Christ.
Required book: Jeremiah by Matthew S. Harmon

TUESDAYS

The 7 Feasts of Israel
Meets: Tuesdays at 9:30AM
Location: Fellowship Hall A
Leader: Cindy Reeder
Starts:  September 13 

Study Overview:
We are told over and over again throughout the Bible to “remember, do not forget God’s statutes and law.” To help the Israelites remember as well as look forward, He gave them 7 feasts to celebrate each year. These looked back to God’s goodness and forward to His redemption in Jesus. Join us for this 9 week study as we look deeper into these Feast.

Optional Book: “The Confessions of Our Faith,” Fortress Edition.
Required Book: 7 Feasts: Finding Christ in the Sacred Celebrations of the Old Testament by Erin Davis

Blessed: Experiencing the Promise of the Book of Revelation
By Nancy Guthrie
Meets: Tuesdays at 9:30AM
Location: G101
Leader: Mary Anne Turnbull
Starts: September 6 

Study Overview:
Over 12 chapters, Blessed covers the full text of the book of Revelation, exploring its call to patient endurance as God’s sovereign plans for judgment and salvation are worked out in the world. This book shows that Revelation is less about when Jesus will return and more about who we are to be, what we are to do, and what we can expect to endure as we wait for Jesus to return to establish his kingdom in the new creation.

Required Book: Blessed by Nancy Guthrie
The study also requires the purchase of a $5.00 personal study guide provided at the church.

WEDNESDAYS

The Attributes of God
Meets: Wednesdays at 6:30PM
Location: G103
Leader: Kristie Harrick
Starts: September 7

Study Overview:
A.W. Pink states that “a spiritual and saving knowledge of God is the greatest need of every human creature.” “Now acquaint yourself with Him, and be at peace; Thereby good will come to you.” Job 22:21 (NKJV)  “Thus says the Lord: ‘Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, Let not the mighty man glory in his might, Nor let the rich man glory in his riches; But let him who glories glory in this, That he understands and knows Me, That I am the Lord, exercising lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight,’ says the Lord.” Jeremiah 9:23-24
Join us Wednesday evening as we unpack 10 ways that God is different from us.  Each week we will explore one of God’s incommunicable attributes and ask the question, “Are we resting and rejoicing in this attribute of God or are we rivaling God in this area?”

Recommended Books: None Like Him by Jen Wilkin and The Attributes of God by A.W. Pink

A Continuing Study in Genesis
Meets: Wednesdays at 6:30PM
Location: M210
Leader: Teresa Caldwell
Starts: September 7

Study Overview:
We will delve into the lives of the patriarchs’ lives. Boice demonstrates how much they are like us and how easily we relate to them. Boice writes, “I trust that God will use their strengths and weaknesses, victories and failures, to guide you in the true path of discipleship and to strengthen your witness.”

Required Book: Genesis: Volume 2: A New Beginning (Genesis 12-36) by James Montgomery Boice

THURSDAYS

Matters of the Heart
Meets: Thursdays at 9:30AM
Location: G101
Leader: Donna Evans
Starts: September 8

Study Overview:
1 Samuel is not just vital to understanding Israel’s history as a nation, but it is also important for helping us see the contrast of those whose hearts are fully devoted to God and those whose hearts are not. This 10-week study focuses on the eight biblical characters whose hearts and life choices should cause us to examine our own hearts and choices.  Along the way we will see that desperate hearts don’t have to lead to despair, but can lead to dependent, delivered, and delighted hearts.

Recommended book (not required): 1 Samuel: Looking on the Heart by Dale Ralph Davis

A Study of the Book of Psalms
Meets: Thursdays at 9:30AM
Location: Chapel
Leader: Yvonne Welch
Starts: September 8

Study Overview:
This will be an in-depth study of the book of Psalms. Calvin called this book “’an anatomy of all parts of the soul’; for there is not an emotion of which one can be conscious that is not here represented as in a mirror. ” Mark Dever said, ” In good times, nothing better expresses praise to God than the words of the Psalms. In bad times, nothing can better remind us that God knows our sorrows and our troubles, and there is no better way in the midst of these trials to express our faith.”

Judges
Meets: Thursdays at 10:00AM
Location: FH E&F
Leaders: Elizabeth Bondurant and Amanda Peterson
Starts: September 7

Study Overview:
Join us for this 10-week study on the often-neglected book of Judges. The narrative may seem complex, puzzling, primitive, and violent, but the most shocking feature of Judges is not the horror of the people’s sin or the potential heroic storylines of each leader of Israel. The most shocking feature truly is “the glory of salvation from that sin, accomplished by the God of patience, mercy, compassion, steadfast love, and faithfulness. The terror of sin is outshone only by the glory of God’s salvation worked through these judges, who then point us to Jesus Christ.”

Blessed: Experiencing the Promise of the Book of Revelation
By Nancy Guthrie
Meets: Thursdays at 6:30PM
Location: M200
Leader: Margaret Mugg
Starts: September 8

Study Overview:
Over 12 chapters, Blessed covers the full text of the book of Revelation, exploring its call to patient endurance as God’s sovereign plans for judgment and salvation are worked out in the world. This book shows that Revelation is less about when Jesus will return and more about who we are to be, what we are to do, and what we can expect to endure as we wait for Jesus to return to establish his kingdom in the new creation.

Required Book: Blessed by Nancy Guthrie
The study also requires the purchase of a $5.00 personal study guide provided at the church.

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