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Unit 1: New Year, New Everything (God’s Glorious Renewal)

Keith Durso and Aimee Day Yeager

A new year has a way of turning our thoughts toward newness elsewhere in life too: what habits to release, what routines might help us grow where God is calling. This four-lesson unit explores God's renewal from four angles. Ephesians reveals a "New Family" formed through redemption in Christ. Genesis and Psalm 29 celebrate the "New Creation" spoken into being by God's word. Young Samuel's story shows how mentors help us discern a "New Calling," even when God's voice is hard to recognize. And Jonah's frustration with God's "New Mercies" reminds us what not to do when grace reaches people we'd rather it skip. As Isaiah declared, God is always making new things known.

Unit 2: Who Is the Messiah

Elaine Sveet, Katie Stenta, and John Manzo

Remember WWJD bracelets? The question behind them, what would Jesus do, still matters. But answering it means first asking who Jesus is. This four-lesson unit turns to the Gospel of Mark to find out. We witness Jesus's authority in his teaching and healing, then join his closest disciples on the mountain for the Transfiguration and a glimpse of God's glory. We return to the beginning of Mark, where Jesus comes to John for baptism and takes up his message of repentance and good news. And we sit with Jesus's own followers as he names himself the Son of Man who will suffer, die, and rise again, calling his followers to take up the cross too. Four lessons that ask "Who is the Messiah?" so we can speak confidently about WWJD.

Unit 3: Images of the Easter Way

Alan Redditt and David Priddy

Easter has its bunnies and colored eggs, but the Gospel of John offers images that carry deeper weight. This five-lesson unit follows the symbols and metaphors that shape the road to Resurrection Sunday. Jesus cleanses the temple and identifies his own body with it. He tells Nicodemus he'll be lifted up like Moses's bronze serpent, proof of a God who loves the world enough to save it. He compares himself to a seed that must fall and die to bear fruit, then calls his hearers to walk as children of light. Holy Week opens with a shared meal, an anointing, and a humble entry into Jerusalem on a donkey. And before dawn, Mary Magdalene finds an empty tomb. He is risen indeed.

Unit 4: Past Present

Bruce Gentry

Acts picks up where Luke leaves off: the ascension, Pentecost, and the early church's growth from a Jerusalem gathering into a movement spanning Jewish and Gentile believers alike. This four-lesson unit traces how the Old Testament shaped that new church at every turn. In "History Testifies," Peter quotes the psalmist to make sense of the disciples' threats. In "God of Our Ancestors," he ties God's promises to Abraham directly to Jesus the Messiah. In "Rejecting the Stone," Peter stands before the Sanhedrin and names Jesus the cornerstone the builders rejected. And in "Prophecy and Good News," Philip opens the words of Isaiah to a seeker who never expected to find Christ there.