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September 7, 2014
Bible Outlines for Reading, Teaching, or Discussion Groups
Hebrews Ch. 2 Don’t neglect so great a salvation: Jesus is restoring us from a life of bondage to a life crowned with glory and honor.
v.1-4 Give the more earnest heed to what God has told us through His Son, lest you drift away from the truth you have heard.
v.5-8, 9 God wants mankind to have lives that are crowned with glory and honor—Jesus is indispensable to that plan.
v.9-10 God’s fitting plan for Jesus, as the Capt...
August 31, 2014
Bible Outlines for Reading, Teaching, or Discussion Groups
Precious Promises
Nehemiah 9:7-8 tells us that God made a covenant (a binding agreement) with Abraham and his descendants—all those who believe (Rom 4:11) of every generation, including us today. Chapter 9 lists some of the blessings that God gave His people, and ends with the people reaffirming or refreshing their covenant with God. What can we learn (Rom 15:4) from this chapter about how God blesses those who believe in Him? In...
August 24, 2014
Bible Outlines for Reading, Teaching, or Discussion Groups
Matthew Ch. 14 Be strong in faith: apply the truth to the situation at hand, and act on it.
v.1-12 Don’t stop short of faith: repent when you have sinned, and set things right.
v.13-21 Do the impossible: use the resources that Jesus makes available to you, to complete the assignment that He has given you.
v.22-33 “Walk on water” in the midst of your storms: encounter troubles successfully by focu...
August 13, 2014
Lessons from Home
De-Stressing
We had another “stress test” recently. A plumbing problem upstairs caused water to pour through a downstairs light fixture onto a wood floor that isn’t supposed to get wet. That started six weeks of dust, claustrophobia, and waiting for things to be fixed.
I have fresh evidence that stress can be caused by impatience, uncertainty, and the “gloomies,” and I’m trying to apply the following “Lessons from Home.”
1. Displac...
August 10, 2014
Bible Outlines for Reading, Teaching, or Discussion Groups
Acts: Be a God-directed witness.
OR Be God-directed and God-empowered in your contributions to His family and for His kingdom.
Ch. 26 What will Jesus send you to say to someone who doesn't know God?
v.1-3 “You are permitted to speak for yourself” (v.1).
v.4-11 Tell them your personal testimony/background (tell them about yourself).
v.12-15 Tell the...
July 30, 2014
Bible Outlines for Reading, Teaching, or Discussion Groups
Matthew Chapter 12
The book of Matthew has some of my favorite application. Chapter 12 helps us to understand Jesus’ ministry to us today.
Matthew Ch.12 Don’t be blind to, or bound from, the greatness of Jesus’ ministry.
(blinded by legalism or Satan)
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July 20, 2014
Bible Studies
Application, Application!! – Part 2
Here are the other two chapters of Philippians in outline form for reading, discussion groups, or teaching. Are they understandable by themselves or do they need a teacher to explain them?
Philippians: How to Rejoice While You Work
Chapter 3 Adjust your mindset upward.
v.1-6 Put no confidence in the flesh.
v.7-11 Count all things as loss compared to knowing Christ.
v.12-16 Press on tow...
July 12, 2014
Bible Studies
Application, Application!!
When I started studying the Bible, I loved reading it. My problem was remembering what I had read, particularly a day or two later. So I started writing down statements to remind myself of what Scripture says about what God wants us to do and to know—“application.”
I had a statement for each paragraph, chapter, and book. Since I was particularly interested in what God wants us to do, many of the application statements are in the form of...
June 29, 2014
Isaiah: Setting Things Right
The Complete Picture
It’s not difficult to take in the complete picture of Leonardo da Vinci’s The Mona Lisa. The portrait is only about thirty inches tall by eighteen inches wide.1 It was hanging behind bullet-proof glass when my family and I saw it in the Louvre in Paris. What’s difficult is figuring out the expression on her face. What did the artist have in mind? Was he hoping to intrigue us with the my...
June 22, 2014
Isaiah: Setting Things Right
Love is Christ’s Driving Force
In 2010, my family and I attended the International Christian Retail Show, where Christian book publishers and producers of music and gift items, promote their new products to retailers. As writers, we wanted to see how the book promotion process worked.
Giant posters decorated the halls of the convention center like murals. One of them promoted The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Aslan the lion with his gold...
