| Dwayne McCrary | Filed Under: Adults
Some things cannot be learned simply by watching someone else do them. You can watch a person lay brick or weld a perfectly smooth bead all day and not come close to doing it yourself at the end of that day. Bible study skills are in that same category. You have to do them to…
Read More Tags: adults, Bible study skills| Toby Jennings | Filed Under: Adults, Blog
One may make a formidable case that sin is its own penalty. In Genesis 3, for example, when Adam and Eve chose to believe the lie rather than the truth—which is the definition of sin—that was evil. From that evil evil resulted. Their turning from life—which is the definition of death—resulted in further death. The…
Read More Tags: Augustine, biblical illiteracy, Jennings, sin, take-up and read, the lie, worthwhile| Dwayne McCrary | Filed Under: Adults
There we were sitting in a room listening to a presenter share about the dangers of lecture. He presented a list of the shortcomings of lecture and advantages of other teaching methods. He did it all in an hour and it was an informative lecture on the problems of relying only on lecture. Let’s be…
Read More Tags: discussion-based Bible study, engage, lecture, teaching a Bible study| Toby Jennings | Filed Under: Adults, Blog, Young Adults
By Bill Craig A common practice of many pastors is to invite people to “turn in their Bibles” to the passage they are about to read. I’ve noticed recently in some churches, including my own, this practice is changing. My pastor now invites people to “turn on” their Bibles and “navigate to” the Bible passage.…
Read More Tags: 2 Timothy 2:15, app, Bible skills, biblical illiteracy, biblical literacy, Colossians 3:16, Craig, Scripture memorization, Scripture memory, technology| Toby Jennings | Filed Under: Adults, Blog
By Terry Wilder Criteria of Canonicity The basic criterion for recognizing books as being part of the New Testament is whether they were considered “God-breathed” (2 Tim 3.16). Books do not become inspired because they are recognized as being canonical; rather, they are recognized as being canonical because they are inspired by God. Thus, the church…
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