STUDYING SCRIPTURE

In order to properly understand scripture, we must face it with an attitude of logical evaluation and reasoning. Viewing Scripture as a complete logical whole is essential to understanding the deeper meanings behind the text.

Here's a Courage Scripture Chain for the Old Testament. I discovered I have so many favorites from the Old Testament I thought I'd give them a separate section.

I like to mark my scriptures. I also like to add tiny stickers in the margins to remind me of certain themes or topics. On the subject of Courage I chose a little lion sticker to remind me to be courageous. Here's a Courage Scripture Chain.

This Bible Study was originally published as a Sunday School lesson by the Free Will Baptist Press. The target age group is High School although scripture and its values apply to all people of all ages.

This Bible Study was originally published as a Sunday School lesson by the Free Will Baptist Press. The target age group is High School although scripture and its values apply to all people of all ages.

If you have tried to become a daily scripture studier, chances are good that you have found that it is difficult to be consistent about your reading on your own. Having a scripture study partner could easily be the solution to your problem.

Sometimes we capture words before they leave our mouths and we are thankful those words were never spoken. Studying Bible scripture will help us learn to routinely retrain our thinking to stop hurtful words from flowing forth.

Bible Scripture will bring love into focus if we decide that we need to have more of it in our lives. The motive that drives every action of love resides in the heart.

Commentary studying placement of words in the original Greek text in the letter to the Ephesians.

An in-depth study of the book of Genesis.

Summertime is packing time for soon to be college students . If you are sending off a teen for his or her first year of college, you might want to remind them to take along these scriptural assists .

This year, my family has decided to be more diligent in our daily devotional Bible reading. We have adopted the Project 51 yearlong Bible reading plan from YouVersion. It is a manageable plan that is easy to follow, and you can catch up if you are behind.

After the great sermon on the mountain, Jesus comes down and great multitudes of people followed him. A leper appeared and began to worship Jesus.

We learn even more from a letter Paul wrote from Corinth just months after leaving the Thessalonian church. In that letter, we see what it took then and what it takes now for a church to turn the world upside down in glory of Jesus.

Religious short thoughts

Feminism in the church today is not any different than old testament goddess worship. The feminization of God is seeping into christian literature and subtly changing the way some believers see God.

Hope will enable you to go higher and farther that you ever imagined possible. Ezra teaches us how hope took him from being a slave in Babylon, to becoming the highest ranking officer in Jerusalem.

Studying your scriptures every day takes a lot of self-discipline. Here are 5 ways to make it easier...

This is part one in a series for Christian meditation techniques from a Biblical perspective.

The Daily Bible and Prayer program is loaded with stuff that will make Bible Studying easier.

Mulsims around the world are called to act upon the word of God, based on the Quran. But how do Muslims themselves act on this faith and what is being taught in the Mosques of America about the topic?

With the advances in computer technology we find that we can benefit in our Christian studies as well. Throughout the centuries men have had to spend much of their lives going through Scripture

Another in my series of potentially misinterpreted scripture on end time prophecy. This one revealing the potential err in the Ten horns and ten kings that will rule with the beast.

Studying the Dead Sea Scrolls paints a picture of the Essenes as a pious and devout - and secretive - brotherhood.