As you find more and more pieces to the puzzle and put them into place, the picture on the puzzle starts to take shape. You have gone over the pieces so many times you are starting to get to know them really well too. Suddenly you start putting pieces in faster, and faster, and faster. Now all the once it seems like every time you touch a piece it means …
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Beginner’s Online Bible Study 10: Getting to know the pieces of the puzzle – The Bible.
You keep looking through the pieces handling the same pieces over and over and over. Every now and again you find a piece that relates to the pieces you have already put together and you place it in the puzzle. Once in while you’ll be looking at the parts of the puzzle you have put together and you will realize that one of the pieces you saw fits at a …
Beginner’s Online Bible Study 09: Reading the Bible is like putting together a very large puzzle
The next 3 post will compare reading the Bible to putting together a puzzle. It could have been one long post. I’ll put them out quickly so you read together if that is your preference.
Have you ever put together a 1,000 piece puzzle? Were you able to scan all the pieces and instantly see where each piece went? Were you even able to scan every piece at once? Of …
Beginner’s Bible Study 08: The Bible will change us – but be patient
The Bible will change us, but we need to be patient.
Here is a story that may give you some hope and insight.
There once was a young monk who was frustrated with his prayer life and his study of the Bible. He went to an older monk to talk to him about it. The older monk listened, and then told the young monk to take a basket, fill it …
Beginner’s Online Bible Study 07: God is different than us – we must change.
It is also difficult for us to understand the Bible because the author of the Bible in so many ways is not at all like us.
- We are weak, He is so powerful He calmed the wind and the waves.
- We are sickly, He healed us.
- We are harsh and judging, He is forgiving and kind.
- We are selfish, He was a selfless servant all the way to the cross.
Beginner’s Online Bible Study 06: Reading the Bible is not supposed to be simple or easy all the time.
Reading the Bible, is not supposed to be simple or easy all the time.
Lets talk about this for a bit. Perhaps we all need a shot of humility when we pick up this book.
The Bible was written by the person who holds the universe in existence while he sits in a recliner, with his feet up, sipping a wine so wonderful only he can make it. Do you …
Beginner’s Online Bible Study 05: Becoming closer to God requires reading and studying the Bible, the Word of God.
Becoming closer to God requires reading and studying the Bible, the Word of God. I know this is why we are here, but we don’t want to miss just how important this is.
Lets go back to our friend Alex who we would like to get to know better. If Alex wrote a book or an article, wouldn’t you read it? As a matter of fact, if you spent a …
If God is all-knowing, and God doesn't change his mind, why pray?
Questions: Shouldn’t prayer be useless? Imagine you are a young teenager and your mom is sick in the hospital with cancer and almost about to die. You pray to god that she be healed and make a full recovery, but this is pointless for two reasons that go very well together. 1) God is all-knowing and has a perfect plan for you and he is never-changing (Number 23:19). God, being …
Beginner’s Online Bible Study 02: Start With The Proper Goal
Beginner’s Bible Study: The goal is not to understand the Bible, it is to become closer to God so we can glorify Him better.
We all need to have the proper goal when we start. Reading the Bible and understanding it better will bring us closer to God, which will help us bring Him glory. In the broadest sense, that really is what life is all about. Sometimes we look …
Beginner’s Online Bible Study 01: Learn How To Read and Love The Bible.
Just Starting – Keep Reading
The Plan
My pastor challenged me to prepare for Christmas better than I ever have before. I couldn’t think of a better way to do this than to help people who perhaps were either new to the Bible, or struggling to make it meaningful in their lives. I’ve read the Bible for over 35 years now, so maybe God can use that is some small …