Matthew 5:27-30, on the Sunday before Martin Luther King Jr. Day — noted as part of this church's own American Baptist heritage of some ninety years.
Hebrews 12:5-11 on discipline as a mark of sonship, opened with the young bull elephants that began killing rhinos in a South African park until older bulls were brought in.
1 Thessalonians 4:1-12 — living to please God, taken from the NIV heading, on sanctification, self-control and not wronging a brother or sister.
The second week on human sexuality, working from the week's news — including photographs from a 200-year-old brothel — back to Genesis.
Genesis 1 opens Stealing Eden, a two-week series on human sexuality, starting where the story starts rather than where the argument usually does.
Romans 12:18 and Philippians 2:3-7 on keeping peace with people through the holidays, with Dr. David Levy on bringing faith into the world of medicine.