Bible Lessons

The full syllabus

All 44 lessons, in order, across 5 courses. Nothing on this list is withheld until you enrol, and no title has been softened to make a subject sound like something else.

Start with lesson one
Contact Where the audience already is 8 lessons
  • 1 Are We Alone? What Scripture says about a universe that is not empty Key texts: Job 38:7; Job 1:6; 1 Corinthians 4:9; Ephesians 3:10; Hebrews 1:2; Colossians 1:16
  • 2 The War That Began Among the Stars Where evil came from, and why God has not simply ended it Key texts: Ezekiel 28:12-14; Ezekiel 28:15; Isaiah 14:12-14; Revelation 12:7-9; Genesis 3:4-5
  • 3 Visitors of a Higher Order What the Bible actually says about angels Key texts: Psalm 148:2, 5; Hebrews 12:22-23; Revelation 5:11; Psalm 103:20; 2 Peter 2:11; Daniel 10:12-13; Genesis 18:8; Hebrews 13:2; 2 Kings 6:17; Revelation 22:8-9; Jude 6
  • 4 The Signal That Lies Why signs and wonders are never proof by themselves Key texts: 2 Corinthians 11:13-15; Galatians 1:8; Matthew 24:24; 2 Thessalonians 2:9-10; Revelation 13:13-14; Revelation 16:14; Job 1:16; Genesis 3:4-5
  • 5 How Do You Test a Signal You Cannot Trace? Four tests Scripture gives for evaluating any message Key texts: Isaiah 8:19-20; 1 John 4:1-3; Deuteronomy 18:22; Deuteronomy 13:1-3; Matthew 7:15-16; Acts 17:11; 1 Thessalonians 5:21
  • 6 The Great Silence What the Bible teaches about death Key texts: Genesis 2:7; Ecclesiastes 12:7; Psalm 146:4; Ecclesiastes 9:5-6; Ecclesiastes 9:10; Job 14:21; Psalm 115:17; John 11:11-14; 1 Timothy 6:16; 1 Corinthians 15:51-53; 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17
  • 7 The Oldest Open Channel Spiritualism in Scripture, and where the modern contact story came from Key texts: Deuteronomy 18:10-12; Leviticus 19:31; Isaiah 8:19; 1 Samuel 28:13; 1 Chronicles 10:13-14; 1 Timothy 4:1; Revelation 16:14
  • 8 The Only Verified Contact The one appearance with named witnesses, a date, and a place Key texts: John 1:1-3; John 1:14; 1 John 1:1-3; 1 Corinthians 15:3-6; Romans 5:8; Hebrews 2:14; Colossians 2:15; Revelation 1:18; John 11:25-26; Revelation 3:20; Acts 4:12
Foundations Who God is and what He has done 10 lessons
  • 9 A Message From Outside Why the Bible can be trusted as the standard Key texts: 2 Timothy 3:16; 2 Peter 1:20-21; Isaiah 46:9-10; Isaiah 44:28; Psalm 119:105
  • 10 Three Who Are One The one God who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit Key texts: Deuteronomy 6:4; Matthew 3:16-17; Matthew 28:19; John 1:1; Acts 5:3-4
  • 11 The Unseen Helper Who the Holy Spirit is and what He does Key texts: John 16:7; Ephesians 4:30; Galatians 5:22-23; John 16:14; Luke 11:13
  • 12 Six Days and a Word Creation, and what it settles Key texts: Psalm 33:6, 9; Hebrews 11:3; Genesis 2:2-3; Exodus 20:11; Revelation 14:7
  • 13 How a Good World Went Dark An honest account of what went wrong with us Key texts: Genesis 3:4-5; Romans 5:12; Isaiah 59:2; Romans 3:23; Jeremiah 13:23; Romans 7:19, 24; Romans 6:23
  • 14 The Rescue Mission What the cross actually accomplished Key texts: Romans 5:8; Isaiah 53:4-6; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Colossians 2:15; Romans 4:25; Ephesians 2:8-9; Titus 3:5
  • 15 A New Creation Repentance, forgiveness, and what actually changes Key texts: John 3:3; John 3:6-7; Ezekiel 36:26; Romans 2:4; 1 John 1:9; 2 Corinthians 5:17; 1 John 5:13; John 5:24
  • 16 Growing Toward the Light The daily walk, and what to do about failure Key texts: John 15:4-5; Philippians 1:6; 2 Corinthians 3:18; 1 John 2:1; Proverbs 24:16; 1 Corinthians 10:13; Galatians 5:22-23
  • 17 Staying in Contact Prayer, Scripture, and a devotional life you can sustain Key texts: Psalm 55:17; 1 Thessalonians 5:17; Philippians 4:6-7; Psalm 119:11; Joshua 1:8
  • 18 The Closest Orbit Marriage, home, and the people nearest you Key texts: Genesis 2:18; Genesis 2:24; Ephesians 5:21; Ephesians 5:25; Deuteronomy 6:6-7
The Covenant How a follower of Christ lives and belongs 10 lessons
  • 19 The Constitution of the Universe What God's law is, and what it is for Key texts: Exodus 31:18; Psalm 19:7; Romans 7:12; Romans 3:20; James 1:23-24; Matthew 5:17-18; James 2:10-11; Hebrews 8:10
  • 20 The Day Built Into Creation The Sabbath, and the honest history of how the day changed Key texts: Genesis 2:2-3; Exodus 20:8-11; Isaiah 58:13-14
  • 21 Why Keep a Law That Cannot Save You? Law and grace, held together Key texts: Romans 6:14-15; Colossians 2:14; Ephesians 2:8-10; Romans 8:3-4
  • 22 Buried and Raised Baptism: what it is, and when a person is ready Key texts: Acts 8:38-39; Romans 6:3-4
  • 23 The Table and the Basin The Lord's Supper, and the service Jesus performed first Key texts: John 13:4-5; John 13:14-15, 17; Matthew 26:26-28; 1 Corinthians 11:27-28
  • 24 The Vessel You Were Given Your body, and why it belongs in a course about faith Key texts: 1 Corinthians 6:19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:31; Genesis 1:29
  • 25 Set Apart Christian living, from principle rather than a list of rules Key texts: Romans 12:1-2; Philippians 4:8; Ephesians 4:29; 1 Peter 3:3-4; 1 John 2:15, 17
  • 26 Stewards of a Borrowed World Money, tithe, offerings, and what it means to own nothing Key texts: Psalm 24:1; Leviticus 27:30; Malachi 3:8; Malachi 3:10; 2 Corinthians 9:7
  • 27 A Body With Many Parts The church: what it is, how it works, and why it is organized Key texts: 1 Corinthians 12:12; 1 Corinthians 12:4, 11; Ephesians 4:12; Ephesians 4:3-6; Matthew 18:15; Hebrews 10:25
  • 28 Sent Why you were told, and what you do about it Key texts: Matthew 28:18-20; Acts 1:8; Mark 5:19; 1 Peter 3:15
The Blueprint Prophecy, on trust already earned 8 lessons
  • 29 The Dream That Mapped the Future Daniel 2, and how prophecy is actually read Key texts: Daniel 2:10-11; Daniel 2:32-34; Daniel 2:38-39; Daniel 2:40; Daniel 2:41, 43; Daniel 2:44
  • 30 Four Beasts and a Throne Room Daniel 7, and a power the metals did not show Key texts: Daniel 7:7; Daniel 7:8; Daniel 7:25; Ezekiel 4:6; Numbers 14:34; Daniel 7:9-10; Daniel 7:13-14
  • 31 The Longest Countdown Daniel 8 and 9, and a prophecy you can date Key texts: Daniel 8:20-21; Daniel 8:11-12; Daniel 8:13-14; Daniel 9:22-23; Daniel 9:24; Daniel 9:25; Daniel 9:26-27
  • 32 The Blueprint in Heaven The sanctuary, and why it is the key to everything Key texts: Exodus 25:8-9; Hebrews 8:1-5; Hebrews 9:24; Leviticus 16:33-34; Leviticus 16:21-22; Hebrews 7:25; 1 John 2:1
  • 33 The Case Files Opened The judgment, and why it is good news Key texts: Daniel 7:9-10; 2 Corinthians 5:10; 1 Peter 4:17; 1 John 2:1-2; Acts 3:19
  • 34 The War, Seen From Above Revelation 12, and the conflict you met in lesson two Key texts: Revelation 12:1-2; Revelation 12:3-4; Revelation 12:7-8; Revelation 12:11; Revelation 12:12; Revelation 12:6; Revelation 12:14; Revelation 12:17
  • 35 The Power That Rose From the Sea Revelation 13:1-10, identified by the text's own criteria Key texts: Revelation 13:1-2
  • 36 The Power That Rose From the Earth Revelation 13:11-18, and a nation nobody could have guessed Key texts: Revelation 13:11; Revelation 13:12; Revelation 13:13-14; Revelation 13:14; Revelation 13:15-17
The Final Conflict The close of the great controversy 8 lessons
  • 37 The Mark and the Seal What the mark of the beast actually is, and what it is not Key texts: Revelation 14:9-10; Revelation 7:3; Exodus 20:11; Exodus 31:13; Ezekiel 20:20; Revelation 14:12
  • 38 Three Messages to a Whole Planet Revelation 14:6-12, and why this ministry exists Key texts: Revelation 14:6-7; Revelation 14:8; Revelation 18:4; Revelation 14:9-10; Revelation 14:12; Revelation 14:14, 16
  • 39 Still Transmitting Spiritual gifts, the gift of prophecy, and how to test a prophet Key texts: Ephesians 4:11-13; Revelation 19:10
  • 40 The Final Deception Where everything in Course One has been going Key texts: Revelation 16:13-14; Matthew 24:23-26; Matthew 24:27; Revelation 1:7
  • 41 When the Sky Opens The second coming, and how to know the real one Key texts: John 14:1-3; Acts 1:11; 1 Thessalonians 4:16; 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17; 1 Corinthians 15:51-53; Revelation 6:15-16; Matthew 24:36; Matthew 24:42, 44; 2 Peter 3:9
  • 42 A Thousand Years of Silence The millennium, and where everyone actually is Key texts: Revelation 20:4-5; Jeremiah 4:23-26; Revelation 20:1-3; 1 Corinthians 6:2-3; Revelation 20:7-8; Revelation 20:9
  • 43 The Fire That Goes Out The end of sin, and what actually happens to the lost Key texts: Revelation 20:9-10; Revelation 20:14; Malachi 4:1, 3; Psalm 37:10, 20; Ezekiel 33:11; Nahum 1:9
  • 44 A World Without Night The new earth, and what has been offered to you all along Key texts: Revelation 21:1-2; Revelation 21:3; Revelation 21:4; Isaiah 65:21-22; Isaiah 66:23; Revelation 22:4; 1 Corinthians 2:9; Revelation 22:17; Revelation 22:20

Three lessons ask you to make a decision rather than answer a question: the last lesson of the first course, the last of the third, and the last of the fifth. Each one is an invitation. "Not yet" is a recorded answer, and it is not a failure or a reason to be dropped from the course.