Pastors – Encourage a Culture of Bible Engagement, Explain Your Interpretive Process Process One purpose of the stevebelsheim.com blog is “to pass along to Pastors and church leaders advice and comments about increasing Bible engagement among the people in their...

Part 5B shows that God wants a believer to live a holy life and the Bible gives guidance on holy living Holy living is precisely what God wants from a believer.  A text like 1 Peter 1:15–16 (ESV) makes God’s command to be “holy” crystal clear: 15 but as he who...

The ability to study the Bible allows a person to carry better out living a holy life.  Here, the concept of a holy life or holy living refers to a lifestyle that is set apart from the lifestyle of the world in that a person is grounded and firm in living a...

Parts 4A through 4D show that Bible study teaches a person how to discern between spiritual truth and spiritual error.  The ability to possess spiritual discernment is especially critical in the 21st Century because of the proliferation of theological error...

Parts 4A through 4D show that Bible study teaches a person how to discern between spiritual truth and spiritual error.  The ability to possess spiritual discernment is especially critical in the 21st Century because of the proliferation of theological error...

Parts 4A through 4D show that Bible study teaches a person how to discern between spiritual truth and spiritual error.  The ability to possess spiritual discernment is especially critical in the 21st Century because of the proliferation of theological error...

Parts 4A through 4D show that Bible study teaches a person how to discern between spiritual truth and spiritual error.  The ability to possess spiritual discernment is especially critical in the 21st Century because of the proliferation of theological error...

Part 3A shows that the Old Testament teaches that God commands a Christian to study the Bible.  Part 3B shows the same is true for the New Testament.  In Knowing Scripture, at pages 22-26, R. C. Sproul points to two passages that demand we study the...

One very fundamental reason for studying the Bible is that God commands it.  It is impossible to argue against this fact.  In Knowing Scripture, at pages 22-26, R. C. Sproul points to two passages that demand we study the Bible.  This article looks at...

Part 2A shows that a distinction between Bible reading and Bible study makes common sense. Part 2B teaches that a comparison between Paul’s advice to Timothy in 1 Timothy 4:13 contrasted with 2 Timothy 2:15 establishes that Bible reading is not Bible study.  1...