Christian Training Union – July 2026

Please read, study, and meditate on the Scriptures below, then write a brief summary of what they say to the Universal Church in general and to you individually. Submit your summary to Senior Pastor John Lane at jLane45000@gmail.com or SeniorpastorjLane@gmail.com on or before August 16, 2026. If you don’t have email access, you may submit a hard copy to Senior Pastor John Lane at Seven Oaks Recreation Center by the same date. Prizes, certificates, and other awards will be distributed at our Family and Friends Day on August 30, 2026.

As you read and pray over these Scriptures, receive God’s grace, mercy, protection, and blessing through our collective study on Wednesday evenings at 6:00 p.m. and through your personal study via the Internet and individual reflection.

Thank you for your commitment to our Lord Jesus Christ and to the study of His Word. May God bless you as we continue to grow together as yielded students of His Word, and may His grace, mercy, and love be upon you and your household, that you may prosper and be in health even as your soul prospers. Know that our Lord Jesus withholds no good thing from those who remain yielded to Him and His Word, and who love Him with all their heart, soul, mind, and strength, and their neighbor as themselves.

Yours because He lives,

Senior Pastor John Lane

Philippians 2:9-11 (KJV)

Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Matthew 28:16-20 (KJV)

¹⁶ Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them.

¹⁷ And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted.

¹⁸ And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.

¹⁹ Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

²⁰ Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

John 21:14-16 (KJV)

¹⁴ This is now the third time that Jesus shewed himself to his disciples, after that he was risen from the dead.

¹⁵ So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs.

¹⁶ He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep.

Exodus 20:12  (KJV)

¹² Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Matthew 22:35-40 (King James Version)

³⁵ Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,

³⁶ Master, which is the great commandment in the law?

³⁷ Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

³⁸ This is the first and great commandment.

³⁹ And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

⁴⁰ On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

Proverbs 13:22 (KJV)

22 A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

John 15:7 (KJV)

If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

James 3:7 – 18 (KJV)

⁷ For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:

⁸ But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

⁹ Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.

¹⁰ Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

¹¹ Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?

¹² Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.

¹³ Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.

¹⁴ But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

¹⁵ This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

¹⁶ For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

¹⁷ But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

¹⁸ And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.

2 Timothy 4:18

And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

John 15:7 (King James Version)

If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.