Wholly Sufficient
Every Friday I will post a new Bible study for you to think about during the weekend. They will be simple studies which mostly consist of my own thoughts on a few select verses.
Principles of Study
Be as literal as possible.
Keep things in context.
Keep it simple.
Focus on our response.
Resources
Friday, July 20, 2007
But Words Can Never Hurt Me (Ecclesiastes 7:21–22)
Also, do not take seriously all words which are spoken, so that you will not hear your servant cursing you. For you also have realized that you likewise have many times cursed others.
For someone like me, who always takes things so seriously, and who may take offense, without even thinking, at the slightest joke or passing comment, these verses give a proper picture of a Godly response to the words of others. This verse means that we ought to have patience and generosity towards the words of
Friday, July 13, 2007
The Matter of Living (James 4)
What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members? You lust and do not have; so you commit murder. You are envious and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures. You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be
Friday, June 29, 2007
Truth (Ephesians 6:14)
Stand firm therefore, HAVING GIRDED YOUR LOINS WITH TRUTH, and HAVING PUT ON THE BREASTPLATE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS,….
I have become continually amazed by the world and its outlook on truth. I know that I have been raised since the beginning of my childhood with a reverence and absolute submission to the truth. That is to say, that I am hard pressed to lie. This is something so deeply ingrained into my body that if I were to attempt to blatantly speak falsely, I fear I might have a seizure.
Yet,
Friday, May 11, 2007
What doth he require? (Micah 6:8)
He has told you, O man, what is good;
And what does the LORD require of you
But to do justice, to love kindness,
And to walk humbly with your God?
A lot of people in this world seem to have the first two of these requirements down pretty well. The world is full of nice people who want Justice. However, Christianity is not just about doing the right thing, or about being nice and kind to those around you. Christianity is a personal, deep, relationship, with another
Friday, May 4, 2007
Greater Love (John 15:12-14)
This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. You are My friends if you do what I command you.
I always thought this was something of a weird passage. I mean, it seems to make perfect sense, but I have never really had that much of a problem with the concept of dying in the service of another friend. To me, the idea of dying just isn’t that bad. Of course, I say that now, when I have
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