I am regularly asked to recommend Bible study software and/or Bible study sites. Today I want to recommend two websites that facilitate Bible study (in the order I use them). www.net.bible.org The NeXt Bibleâ„¢ Learning Environment offers the most comprehensive set of free resources available online, including commentaries, articles, word studies, original biblical languages and …
Author: Steve
I love to study the Bible and I love to engage with others in learning. I had been privileged to do this on a regular basis through church ministry and through part-time teaching at a local Bible colleges.
Helping individuals learn to feed themselves through their own study of God’s Word is joy-giving to me. Influencing groups to do life and church from a biblically grounded, theologically faithful perspective is my passion.
2008 Christianity Today Book Awares
Interesting to see what is being written and what is being read. http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/april/10.28.html?start=3 This annotated list of winner is intersting.  The books listed in general deal with issues of authenticity, reliability, reality in truth and relationships. We still have a ways to go in explaining and defending the historicity and reliability of the Bible. We …
Thought on Prayer
Am I willing to promise this as a pray? I will pray no prayer, Lord, where I am not willing to be your solution to the prayer. I will pray no prayer, Lord, where I am not willing to let your glory be the overriding goal.
Thought provoking one-liners
Some people what to serve God but only as advisors.People are funny; they want the front of the bus, the middle of the road, and the back of the church. Opportunity may knock once, but temptation bangs on your front door forever. Some minds are like concrete thoroughly mixed up and permanently set. God doesn’t …
The glory of God in suffering
Having just finished studying and teaching Romans 8:26-30 and being reminded of God’s purpose for us–conformity to the His Son. Being reminded that God has a plan for good, our good even in difficulty, but that what is good my not be know until eternity. In light of that context, I was struck by the …
Salt and Light
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said, Matthew 5:13-15Â “You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet. 14 “You are the light of the world. …
Wisdom for the Church
A vision without a task is but a dream; a task without a visions is drudgery; a vision with a task is the hope of the world. This inscription is on a church in Sussex, England, dating to 1730 From James C. Wilhoit, Spiritual Formation as if the Church Mattered: Growing in Christ through community …