1After saying all these things, Jesus looked up to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son so he can give glory back to you.2For you have given him authority over everyone. He gives eternal life to each one you have given him.3And this is the way to have eternal life—to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, the …
Category: Beginner Online Bible Study
About This Site
This site is just a personal journal of my faith paths. Having said that, there are a couple main themes.
Beginners Online Bible Study is my feeble attempt to help beginners learn to read the Bible. It starts with a series of posts about the Bible and how it is structured etc. Then we start to read through Matthew and John and I hope to continue to do this. After …
Beginner's Online Bible Study: A change of fucus
If you have been following this on line Bible study all this time, I greatly appreciate it. I think God is calling me to change my focus for a while. I hope you will continue to follow this new purpose. If you think I’m making a mistake, let me know.
You see I have a host of people in my life, whom I love dearly, who are atheist. This has …
Beginner's Online Bible Study: Sorrow Turned To Joy – John:16:16-32
Sadness Will Be Turned to Joy
16“In a little while you won’t see me anymore. But a little while after that, you will see me again.”
17Some of the disciples asked each other, “What does he mean when he says, ‘In a little while you won’t see me, but then you will see me,’ and ‘I am going to the Father’?18And what does he mean by …
Beginner's Online Bible Study: The Work Of The Holy Spirit – John 16:5-15
The Work of the Holy Spirit5“But now I am going away to the one who sent me, and not one of you is asking where I am going.6Instead, you grieve because of what I’ve told you.7But in fact, it is best for you that I go away, because if I don’t, the eAdvocate won’t come. If I do go away, then I will …
Beginner's Online Bible Study: Jesus' Disciples And The World – John 15:18-16:4
Jesus’ Disciples and the World
18“If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first.19The world would love you as one of its own if you belonged to it, but you are no longer part of the world. I chose you to come out of the world, so it hates you.20Do you remember what I told you? ‘A slave is not greater than the …
Beginner's Online Bible Study: Love One Another – John 15:9-17
9“I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Remain in my alove.10When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.11I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow!12This is my commandment: Love each other in …
Beginner's Online Bible Study: Jesus Is The Vine, We Are The Branches – John 15:1-8
“I am the true jgrapevine, and my Father is the gardener.2He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn’t produce fruit, and he prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more.3You have already been pruned and purified by the message 
I have given you.4Remain in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit …
Beginner's Online Bible Study: Why Not Reveal Yourself Jesus? – John 14:22-31
22Judas (not Judas Iscariot, but the other disciple with that name) said to him, “Lord, why are you going to reveal yourself only to us and not to the world at large?”
23Jesus replied, “All who love me will do what I say. My Father will love them, and we will come and make our home with each of them.24Anyone who doesn’t love me will not …
Beginner's Online Bible Study: Promise Of The Holy Spirit – John 14:15-21
Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit
15“If you love me, obey my commandments.16And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another gAdvocate, who will never leave you.17He is the Holy Spirit, who leads into all truth. The world cannot receive him, because it isn’t looking for him and doesn’t recognize him. But you know him, because he lives with you now and …