Bible Study

Study the Bible At Home: Salt and Light

Because salt and light are so abundant today, it can be easy today to miss the power of Jesus’s metaphor in Matthew 5:13-16. For those in the ancient world, however, they would have readily understood that Jesus’s message was for them to impact their world with lives that reflect the kingdom principles preached in the Beatitudes and the entire Sermon on the Mount.

The Right Way To Study Your Bible

As a pastor, I love it when people walk into my office and ask how they should study their Bible. I love it even more when they tell me how they have been studying it already and ask if I have any suggestions. Many people come into my office looking for THE way to study …

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Bible Study Map

Several years ago, Brad Waggoner and his research team from LifeWay discovered the that the most important factor in determining a Christian’s spiritual maturity was daily Bible reading.  This is not to say that other spiritual disciplines are not important, but it may point to the fact that other spiritual disciplines are built largely off of …

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Daily Docket (6/18/14)

My Wife Tears Me Down— Today is my anniversary, and I want everyone to know that my wife tears me down and talks about me behind my back. Look at the Book— John Piper is embarking on a new project to teach the Bible to all of us.  I’m anxious to see how this might …

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Bible Study Tools: A Study Bible

Through his careful research and later book, The Shape of Faith To Come, Brad Waggoner and his research team identified daily Bible study as the number one indicator of Christian maturity.  If you want to grow in Christ, it seems, the best way to do that is to spend time with him in his Word.  Paul admonished …

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Monday Musings

Trying to grow in your faith?  Here is some great counsel, I prayed for faith, and though that some day Faith would come down and strike me like lightning.  But faith did not seem to come.  One day I read in the tenth chapter of Romans, ‘Now faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the …

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Dig in the Word

“You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure. God hath spoken much to you in the Scripture; labor to understand as much of what he saith as you can. God hath made …

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Suggested Books on Biblical Theology

I am becoming increasingly aware of the importatance of biblical theology in the church.  I just ran across a list of suggested books on biblical theology from Grace Baptist Church and I’ve added a few of my own.  The list can be found be “Beginner” Reading: 1.  According to Plan: The Unfolding Revelation of God …

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