Tell Me the Story of Jesus

Nineteenth-century hymn writer Fanny Crosby once pleaded through song:

Tell me the story of Jesus, write on my heart ev’ry word;
tell me the story most precious, sweetest that ever was heard.

While few may ask to hear about Jesus with such fervency, we live in a world of people seeking meaning to their own story. What makes the story of Jesus so precious is every human story is rightly found in relation to His. Why? Because Jesus’s story is the story of the Bible, and the story of all of history – beginning to end. Meaning in life can only be truly found, as we see how the story of Jesus tells us about the God who loves us so much, He took on our human story to live, die and rise again that we might have an eternal story in His presence. This is the story of Scripture – the Story of Jesus.

This summer, we will begin a 10-month journey through many of the stories of the Bible, discovering together how they all tell one great story – the Story of Jesus. Each week will include a corresponding reading for children from The Jesus Storybook Bible, as well as a story from the Old or New Testament that responds to the plea: Tell Me the Story of Jesus.

SUMMER SERMONS:

• July 20: “Tell Me the Story of Jesus” – Luke 24:13-27; Jesus Storybook Bible (JSB) 1
• July 27: “Creation”- Genesis 1:1, 26-31; 2:5-9; 18-25; JSB 2
• August 3: “The Crusher” – Genesis 2:15-17, 3:1-15; JSB 3
• August 10: “Refuge” – Genesis 6:9-22; JSB 4
• August 17: “God Come Down” – Genesis 11:1-9; JSB 5
• August 24: “Covenant Son” – Genesis 15:1-21; JSB 6
• August 31: “Sacrifice”

To help you prepare for each week, below is a suggested weekly Bible reading schedule that includes passages and themes that help tell the story of Jesus, beginning with July 21-27. These are designed for you to read throughout the week at your own pace.

The scripture reading for this Sunday will be:

Luke 24:13-27 (ESV)

That very day two of them were going to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and they were talking with each other about all these things that had happened. While they were talking and discussing together, Jesus himself drew near and went with them. But their eyes were kept from recognizing him. And he said to them, “What is this conversation that you are holding with each other as you walk?” And they stood still, looking sad. Then one of them, named Cleopas, answered him, “Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?” And he said to them, “What things?” And they said to him, “Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, a man who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people, and how our chief priests and rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him. But we had hoped that he was the one to redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened. Moreover, some women of our company amazed us. They were at the tomb early in the morning, and when they did not find his body, they came back saying that they had even seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive. Some of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but him they did not see.” And he said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?” And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

English Standard Version. ESV® Permanent Text Edition® (2016).
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