Discover the transformative benefits of deeper Bible study and how it can enrich your spiritual growth and personal faith journey.
Why Should Deeper Bible Study Be for You?
Finding Enjoyment and Reward in Our Personal Bible Study
God has placed within each person’s heart a need for spiritual sustenance. He has provided for this need with his Word, which is literally more essential than physical food and literally more precious than any material resource.
You Took that Bible Verse Out of Context
In discussions concerning interpretations of the Bible, we often hear the phrase, “you took that out of context.” In fact, we often hear that in discussions outside the Bible, as when the media quotes a politician and the politician feels he or she has been unfairly treated. In its popular usage, the phrase seems simply to mean, “You got that wrong.”
What Profit Is There In Learning Biblical Hebrew or Greek? Much in Every Way!
Knowledge of the original languages can get you even farther. If you have the opportunity to learn the languages, take it. If you have learned the languages, use every opportunity to deepen your knowledge of them. If neither, learn to use responsibly the various study tools now available to help you in your study of God’s Word.
THE PASTOR IN HIS SERMON: “The English Says, …”
How many times have we been in church listening to the preacher do a good job expositing (explaining) the text? At some point, he says “Now, what the Greek actually says is…” At that pronouncement, the congregation grows a little quieter and a little more attentive. Why is that?
THE MOST PROFITABLE BIBLE STUDY
Many a one who is eagerly asking, “What method shall I pursue in my Bible study?” needs something that goes far deeper than a new and better method.
JOHN 5:39-40: The Bible is a Guide to Eternal Life
John 5:39-40 Updated American Standard Version (UASV) 39 You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is these that bear witness about me. 40 And yet you do not want to come to me that you may have life.
The Bible Gives Us Answers to Questions about Life
The Bible gives us answers to questions about this life and the one to come, which can be found nowhere else, and offers illumination to its readers. Those who take in this life-saving knowledge are freed from the misunderstandings of life that dominate billions of others.
VERSE-BY-VERSE OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE COMMENTARY: PSALM 1:2 WHAT THE GODLY DO
Not one day should ever pass without our considering the Word of God. Bible reading and personal Bible study does not guarantee that we will become more spiritual, more faithful, more knowledgable but the opposite, lack thereof, is guaranteed.
DEEP BIBLE STUDY Does Not Always Equal Spiritual Maturity But a LACK THEREOF Does Equal Spiritual Immaturity
One of the most often stated half-truths that we learn early on in our Christian walk is that in-depth Bible knowledge does not necessarily equal spiritual maturity. However, that is only half of the truth. The other half of that truth is that a lack of more in-depth knowledge equals spiritual immaturity.
