Going on a Journey

PowerPoint Slides

Each of the five classes in the Spiritual Battle series has its own PowerPoint, running from twenty-four to thirty-six slides depending on the week. Every deck follows the same underlying shape — an introduction and overview, the passage’s own text, a “Big Idea” slide, word studies specific to that week’s passage, and a closing run of Discussion, Analysis, Personal Evaluation, and Worldview-Impact questions — so a class always knows where it is inside the hour, even as the content underneath changes week to week.

Class 1, Ephesians 6:10-13 carries extra weight as the series opener: before reaching the passage itself it lays out the lesson’s purpose, its two focal points (ἵστημι/ἀνθίστημι and ἐνδύω), and a “Positional Reality and Experiential Response” framework contrasting what God has done with what the believer does. Word-study slides cover ἵστημι, ἀνθίστημι, ἐνδύω, and μεθοδεία before the deck turns to the real opponent and closes with the standard question sequence.

Class 2, Ephesians 6:14-20 picks up ἐνδύω from Week 1 and works through the armor piece by piece — belt, breastplate, shoes, shield, helmet, and sword each get their own slide — before a dedicated slide, “Prayer — Not an Eighth Weapon,” makes the point that the list closes on dependence rather than equipment.

Class 3, 1 Peter 5:5-11 traces Peter’s sequence from humility through sober vigilance to resistance, with word-study slides on ἐγκομβόομαι (“clothed with humility”) and ἀνθίστημι paired with στερεός, plus slides devoted to the roaring lion of verse 8 and the closing promise of verse 10.

Class 4, James 4:6-10 follows James’s rapid ten-imperative sequence back to its Proverbs citation, with word studies on ὑποτάσσω (“submit”), the series’ third occurrence of ἀνθίστημι, and δίψυχος (“double-minded”), and a slide tracing the passage’s movement from outward conduct to inward posture.

Class 5, 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 the series’ shortest deck and its close, names the passage as the deliberate odd one out — the only study that never uses ἵστημι or ἀνθίστημι — and says so plainly on its own slide, after word studies on σαρκικός/δυνατά τῷ θεῷ, ὀχύρωμα, and αἰχμαλωτίζω.

These are the decks meant to be projected and taught from, not read — the fuller reasoning behind any given slide lives close at hand in that week’s Course Notes and Exegetical Study, which a teacher can turn to when a question in the room goes deeper than the slide in front of the class.