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Keeping the law inwardly, parts 1 and 2

Lynne Baab • Tuesday March 10 2026

Overall theme for the next few months: God’s law is love

Lesson 5: Keeping the law inwardly (Romans 2:12-29)

Key verse: Real circumcision is a matter of the heart — it is spiritual and not literal. Romans 2:29

1. Stepping into the Word

Sometimes we talk about obeying the letter of the law but not its spirit. Sarah can remember coming home as a teenager before her curfew in order to obey the letter of her parents’ law, but after they were asleep she snuck out again. They had never told her not to go back out after coming home! She had come home at the right...

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Jesus extends forgiveness, parts 3 and 4

Lynne Baab • Tuesday March 3 2026

Overall theme for the next few months: God’s law is love

Lesson 4: Jesus extends forgiveness, parts 3 and 4 (John 8:1-11; you can find parts 1 and 2 here)

Key verse: Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go your way, and from now on do not sin again.” John 8:11b

3. The heart of the Gospel

The two earliest manuscripts of the Gospel of John, which date from the second and early third centuries after Christ, do not include the story of the woman caught in adultery. The story appears in later manuscripts, and scholars believe it may have been added as early as the...

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Jesus extends forgiveness, parts 1 and 2

Lynne Baab • Tuesday February 24 2026

Overall theme for the next few months: God’s law is love

Lesson 4: Jesus extends forgiveness (John 8:1-11)

Key verse: Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go your way, and from now on do not sin again.” John 8:11b

1. Stepping into the Word

Molly is leading the children’s time during the worship service at her church, and she invites the children forward. She sits on a low stool, and the children cluster around her. Molly asks them to imagine that they are in a crowd gathered around Jesus, and a man in the crowd asks Jesus a question.

“Instead of answering right away,” Molly tells the...

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Jesus gives God glory, parts 3 and 4

Lynne Baab • Tuesday February 17 2026

Overall theme for the next few months: God’s law is love

Lesson 3: Jesus gives God glory, parts 3 and 4 (parts 1 and 2 are here)

Passage: John 7:14-24

Key verse: “Those who speak on their own seek their own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and there is nothing false in him.” John 7:18

3. Discernment comes with obedience

Jewish scholars, past and present, have counted 613 specific laws in the Old Testament. They also note that all of those laws are summed up in Deuteronomy 6:4-5:“Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord alone. You shall love the Lord your God with all...

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