*This is the first in a 4-part series on strengthening our skills as students of God’s Word. During the pandemic, one of the things I did was put together a 3D puzzle I’d purchased a few years ago. It was really a set of plastic building blocks with instructions for creating a baseball cap to…
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Abraham Lincoln. Robert Louis Stevenson. Shakespeare. George Bernard Shaw. Yogi Berra. Benjamin Franklin. Martin Luther King. The list could go on of people we might quote to add emphasis or justification to our presentation. A quote seems to take on a life of its own, carrying the burden of an argument, showing reflection, or giving…
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A concordance indexes the words in a literary work. The first Bible concordance was created by Alexander Crudin and was based on the Authorized Version (what we call the King James). He listed the English word and then every reference where that word appeared. The first edition was printed in 1737. More than 100 years…
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Bible Dictionaries are our friends. We should not fear them or ignore them while sitting by themselves in the corner. In them we find articles about a wide-range of topics usually in alphabetical order that define or describe the topic. We may even find multiple articles on the same topic name but with very different…
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In every Explore the Bible session, at least one Bible skill activity is included. The skill may be included in the group plans or group activities as a way to help the members of our group develop and refine their personal Bible study skills so they can do it on their own. This brings us…
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