Josh Hunt's Blog, page 77
June 2, 2022
What did this mean before this was a Bible word?
My day job is writing Bible Study Lessons. I have probably written more Bible Study Lessons than any human, living or dead. I write four lessons a week and have done so for years. My Bible Study Lessons consist of about 20 questions with answers from well-known authors. If Max Lucado ever mentioned the Text […]
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June 1, 2022
God’s remedy for depression
What was God’s remedy for Elijah’s depression? There are four things Elijah did to get rid of his doldrums that we can do to get rid of ours. Take Care of Your Physical Needs The first remedy is, take care of your physical needs. We read that Elijah stretched out under a tree and fell […]
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May 31, 2022
Before you explain what the Bible means…
My dad used to say: “You gotta know what the Bible says before you can understand what it means.” We have to get the text itself in front of them. People are shockingly ignorant about the Word of God. We have to get the text in front of them. People are transformed by the renewing […]
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May 30, 2022
Pray Big
I want to pray bigger, and better. I want you to, too. Our prayers tell us a great deal about ourselves, and about our faith. The great nineteenth-century Scottish preacher Robert Murray M’Cheyne put it memorably: What a man is on his knees before God, that he is, and nothing more. Our conversation with others declares […]
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May 29, 2022
The Holy Spirit in the Old Testament
The word for “spirit” is ruach in Hebrew and pneuma in Greek. The former is used roughly ninety times for the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament. The latter is employed more than 250 times as a reference to the Spirit in the New Testament. Both words can refer to wind or breath. The general […]
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May 28, 2022
Success comes down to this
In his bestselling book Outliers: The Story of Success, author Malcolm Gladwell explains how extraordinary people achieve their success. His examples include the Beatles, Bill Gates, star hockey players, successful pilots, and Silicon Valley billionaires. After studying how they reached the pinnacles of their professions, here’s what Gladwell learned: Successful people practice. A lot. In […]
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May 27, 2022
Appealing to selfish motives
Everyone is tuned in to radio station WIIFM: What’s in it for me? If you can show people how the teaching today will benefit their life, you will have their undivided attention. But, isn’t that appealing to selfishness? The question reveals an underlying assumption. Allow me to reveal it in the form of several questions: […]
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May 26, 2022
Making the gospel attractive
Titus 2.10 says we are to make the gospel attractive. Attractive. The Greek word is kosmeo. It means to adorn. We get words like cosmetics and cosmopolitan from this word. Cosmopolitan Magazine is about being attractive. Let’s tease out this meaning further. I would like to introduce you to two kinds of word studies. These […]
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May 25, 2022
Evangelism Happens When We Least Expect It
Conclusion: Looking for Black Swan Moments Evangelism Happens When We Least Expect It In 2007, Nassim Nicholas Taleb wrote the groundbreaking book The Black Swan, which spent almost a year on the New York Times bestseller list. In this book, Taleb argues that many momentous events are outliers that people could not have predicted. These events […]
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May 24, 2022
The worst kind of introduction
The worst kind of introduction is perhaps the most common: “Open your Bibles today to . . .” Most teachers who use that kind of introduction have an attendance problem. This kind of introduction assumes people are interested. Happily, some of them are. I would be. If you used that introduction with me, I’d be […]
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