An Exceptionally Excellent Issue of Bible Study Magazine – Part Five
This blog post is a continuation of the series discussing the excellent guidance in the September/October 2019 issue of Bible Study Magazine. The second article is entitled “Receiving God’s Message for Us” by Peter Krol. By the way, Peter has a helpful Bible...
An Exceptionally Excellent Issue of Bible Study Magazine – Part Four
This blog post is a continuation of the series discussing the excellent guidance for Bible study in the September/October 2019 issue of Bible Study Magazine. The first article is “One Precept at a Time” by Kay Arthur. While my synopsis is no substitute for...
An Exceptionally Excellent Issue of Bible Study Magazine – Part Three
This blog post is a continuation of the series discussing the excellent guidance in the September/October 2019 issue of Bible Study Magazine. Below is a synopsis of the final “Words to Live By.” Trevin Wax presents two useful tips. First, when you engage...
An Exceptionally Execellent Issue of Bible Study Magazine – Part Two
This blog post is a continuation of the series discussing the excellent guidance in the September/October 2019 issue of Bible Study Magazine. Below is a synopsis of some more “Words to Live By.” JR Vassar suggests reading and rereading the text. For...
An Exceptionally Excellent Issue of Bible Study Magazine – Part One
I just finished reading the September/October 2019 issue of Bible Study Magazine. While I always enjoy reading Bible Study Magazine, this issue is extraordinary. When compiled together, the articles provide a solid foundation of tools to study the...
The Error of Oversimplifying Bible Study
THE ERROR OF OVERSIMPLIFYING BIBLE STUDY In America, we live in a microwave society in which people want something now and without much effort. The main course and all the sides come frozen in a box from the grocery store. All one has to do is slit the...
A BIBLICALLY URGENT LIFE (Sermon Preached August 18, 2019)
A BIBLICALLY URGENT LIFE Sermon Preached 18 AUGUST 2019 at Fairview Community Church Fairview, Tennessee The title of this morning’s sermon is A Biblically Urgent Life. The text for this morning’s sermon is Colossians 4:5–6 (ESV), which reads: 5 Walk in wisdom toward...
What the Bible Teaches about Salvation is Real!
This particular post is a little out of character from my typical posts, but I believe it is worthwhile. In some sense, it tracks the overall thrust of an article (February 5, 2019) by Michael Kelley entitled “3 Things that Keep Christians from Living with a...
Praying Luke 24:45 Before You Begin Bible Reading
This blog post is the fourth (and final) of four blog posts that together consider the four verses in a September 21, 2015, article entitled “Four Prayers for Bible Reading,” by Pastor David Mathis, in which he discusses four verses to pray before one begins to open...
Praying James 1:22 Before You Begin Bible Reading
This blog post is the third of four blog posts that together consider the four verses in a September 21, 2015, article entitled “Four Prayers for Bible Reading” by Pastor David Mathis, in which he discusses four verses to pray before one begins to open God’s...