Bible

About this course

Seventh grade is the year the eight strands start to feel like real subjects rather than school topics. The Old Testament and New Testament surveys move book by book and section by section, covering the Pentateuch, the historical books, the Major and Minor Prophets, the wisdom literature, the four Gospels compared with one another, Acts, all thirteen of Paul's letters, the general epistles, and Revelation. Bible study skills go past finding a verse into method: reading in context, verse-by-verse and topical and thematic and word studies, using a concordance and commentaries and cross-references, and the full inductive method of observe, interpret, apply. Church history is the widest sweep the curriculum has given so far, running from Pentecost through the persecutions, the Apostolic Fathers, Nicaea, the Great Schism of 1054, the medieval monasteries and Crusades, Luther and Calvin, the Anabaptists, the Puritans, the Great Awakening, and the modern missions movement.

The course is 180 lessons across 15 units, one per school day, at about 25 minutes each. A lesson is roughly a thousand words of teaching prose under subheadings, quoting and citing the King James text throughout, and ending with a list of key terms and references worth remembering. Every lesson ends with a ten-question multiple-choice quiz that grades itself.

Apologetics and ethics are where a seventh grader will feel the course pushing hardest, and it is worth knowing what is in them. Apologetics takes on atheism directly, the manuscript evidence for the Bible, fulfilled prophecy, the case for the resurrection, whether all religions lead to the same place, why relativism fails, how to handle honest doubt, and a lesson answering the claim that evolution has disproved creation, which the course argues against rather than presenting as an open question. Ethics is built on the Ten Commandments and reaches sanctity of life, care for the disabled and the elderly, justice for the oppressed, honesty online, conscience, and sexual purity, which is taught as a moral commitment rather than as biology. The worldview unit includes a careful two-kingdoms lesson on Romans 13 and Acts 5:29 that presents the Anabaptist case for church-state separation as its own tradition. This is a reading-heavy course that assumes your student can work independently and then talk it over with you.

What the course covers

• Old Testament survey: law, history, prophets, poetry, and wisdom
• New Testament survey: the four Gospels, Acts, the epistles, and Revelation
• The Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, and the parables
• Inductive Bible study, word studies, and using commentaries and concordances
• Church history from Pentecost through the Great Awakening and modern missions
• The Reformation, the Anabaptists, and the Puritans
• Apologetics: manuscripts, prophecy, the resurrection, atheism, and pluralism
• Creation, evolution, and the question of origins
• Ethics: the Ten Commandments, sanctity of life, justice, purity, digital conduct
• Worldview: humanism, relativism, media discernment, and the two kingdoms

What your student will be able to do

• Work through a passage with the inductive method of observation, interpretation, application
• Trace a theme or a single word across both testaments
• State the distinct emphasis of each Gospel and each of Paul's major letters
• Answer common objections to Christianity in a calm, reasoned way
• Place two thousand years of church history on a timeline with its turning points
• Test an idea from media or culture against Scripture and explain the verdict

Scope and sequence

All 15 units of Bible for Grade 7, in the order they are taught.

Every lesson, by title

All 180 lesson titles are listed here — nothing is withheld until you download. Open a unit to read its contents.

One whole lesson, exactly as it comes

This is a real lesson taken from the middle of the course — the teaching text, the practice, the homework, and the first three quiz questions with their answers. It is not a marketing excerpt.

What you will need

Drawn from the materials named across all 180 lessons of this course. Most families already own most of it.