Foundations, Book I in the Understanding the Times Series

Foundations Student Textbook

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. What the Bible Is and Isn’t
3. Does the Bible Have Authority?
4. How to Read the Bible
5. The Bible as a Story
6. Act 1: Creation
7. Act 2: The Fall
8. Act 3: Redemption Initiated—Israel
9. Interlude: The Second Temple Period
10. Act 4: Redemption Accomplished—Jesus
11. Act 5: Restoration Initiated—The Church
12. Act 6: Restoration Accomplished—New Creation
13. Who God Is
14. Who God Wants Us to Be
15. Walking with God
16. Walking with God in Community
17. Loving God and Others
18. Conclusion

The Foundations student textbook is written for a 9th grade audience, but presents valuable information for any high-school class. Chapters include clear explanations of concepts, student reading objectives and call-out definitions.

This scripture filled textbook is written to engage student's heads, hearts, and hands (thoughts, emotions, and behavior). Your students will come to understand the Christian view of the world through Scripture, see their place in that story, and engage the world with truth through relationships.

Foundations: Book I in the Understanding the Times Series

Foundations is intended to teach the basics of the Christian faith and how to walk with God individually and in community. It is the first book in the four part Understanding the Times Series, written for 9th to 12th graders. Foundations is written for a 9th grade audience but can be used in other grade levels as well.

Foundations covers topics about:

• The nature and authority of the Bible and how to read it
  
• The six acts and the interlude of the biblical metanarrative
  
• The nature of God and of humanity
  
• Christian living individually and corporately

The Understanding the Times Series

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Foundational beliefs and values influence how students interpret the world and guide their actions. The Understanding the Times Series is a unique curriculum designed to help students in ninth through twelfth grades build foundational beliefs and values from a biblical perspective. In an age of competing worldviews, this curriculum will help high school students formulate a biblical perspective of the world and then live accordingly. The Understanding the Times Series incorporates Scripture with worldview curriculum in a way that cohesively presents and affirms the biblical Christian worldview within the historic truths of creation, the fall, redemption, and restoration. It also addresses five worldviews that compete with Christianity—Islam, secularism, Marxism, new spirituality, and postmodernism—so students may engage in evaluative and comparative studies of biblical and unbiblical worldviews.