The Bible is not one big book, though when you get to know it well you will likely conclude it has one true author because it is so interwoven. No, the Bible was written by about 40 different men over about a 1,700 year period. The different writings of these men were collected and over time accepted as inspired by God. This conglomeration of books makes up the Bible. How …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 so closely …
You said you were tired of people telling you to just have faith. I agreed that too often people say that as opposed to studying, thinking and investigating. However, feeling like you need to understand everything is also not a good idea for 1 reasons.
First, the need to understand everything keeps you from progressing. I’ll use this line and points as an example.
1There is no need for me to write to you about this service to the saints. 2For I know your eagerness to help, and I have been boasting about it to the Macedonians, telling them that since last year you in Achaia were ready to give; and your enthusiasm has stirred most of them to action. 3But I am sending the brothers in order that our boasting …
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 …
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.
Reading the Bible, is not supposed to be simple or easy all the time.
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.
