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The Story of the Scriptures

A walk through the Bible the way the Church has always read it—as a single, unfolding drama of God’s love for His people. From the covenants of ancient Israel to the apostles’ eyewitness testimony, from the early Church’s careful discernment of the canon to the Scriptures we hold in our hands today, we will discover why Catholics can approach the Bible with both confidence and joy.
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Mondays at 7:00 p.m.
September - November 2026

Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church
480 152nd Avenue, Holland, MI 49424

Course Overview

  • The Bible in the Life of the Church

September 14, 21, 28
How the Bible came to us, why the Catholic canon includes more books than the Protestant Bible, and how Scripture, Tradition, and the Magisterium work together. We will also look at practical ways Catholics read and pray with Scripture.

The Old Testament: Israel’s Story

October 12, 19, 26
Three sweeping narrative arcs: Creation and covenant through the entry into the Promised Land; the rise and fall of the kingdom, exile, return, and the Maccabean crisis; and the Wisdom literature and Psalms as the heart-response of a people learning to live and pray with God.

The New Testament: The Story Fulfilled

November 9, 16, 23
Jesus in the Gospels; the birth and mission of the Church in Acts and the early letters of Paul; and the apostolic teaching that shows us how to live inside the Gospel story until the Lord returns.
Meet the instructor

Greg Smith

For four decades, Greg Smith, M.Div., has taught and traveled, written and led throughout the Christian world, over thirty of those as a Protestant. After a decade-long “Road to Rome” journey, Greg and his wife “crossed the Tiber” and joined the Roman Catholic Church in 2016. With his eclectic background, he brings a global perspective on the historic Christian faith. Currently, Greg serves as the Director of Ministries at Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church, Dean of the Lakeshore Academy for the New Evangelization, and is the host of the Considering Catholicism podcast.
Patrick Jones - Course author

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480 152nd Avenue, Holland, MI 49424
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