In The Word

Whew,
I just made the one month cutoff mark, or the “blog that faded into obscurity” threshold. It’s been a busy month, both in terms of work and family life. I’m gearing up for leading a church fellowship group during which we’ll be going through the book of acts. This will be my third time through the book of Acts in two years, which is alright with me. There is so much to dig into!! I’ve discovered a number of resources in preparing for this group that relate to Bible study in general, which I’ve found to be invaluable. First, I checked out a book from my local library (which they got on loan all the way from Illinois), called “Grasping God’s Word”. I highly recommend this book. It’s a seminary quality textbook that is written for the lay person, complete with practice studies and questions. Next, there are two courses available for free on www.biblicaltraining.org which are worth checking out Inductive Bible Study, Taught by Dr. George Guthrie and Greek Tools for Bible Study Taught by Dr. Bill Mounce. Both of these courses are very informative and well worth the time. Be sure to check out Dr. Guthrie’s Class Resource Page for some of the reference material presented in his class. Finally I stumbled across a conference called “For All It’s Worth, Reading and Studying the Bible for Life” which contains 12 lectures on a variety of Bible study topics with lecturers such as Dr. Gordon Fee, author of How to read the Bible for all its worth and How to read the Bible book by book and the previously mentioned Dr. Guthrie.
I hope these resources are of some value to you as they have been an enormous help to the way I approach the Scriptures and I will continue posting resources as I find them.