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the second half of the Gospel of Mark in an inductive way. Inductive study means to read the passage in context and ask
questions of the text with the purpose of deriving the meaning and
significance from the text itself. We do this automatically every day
when we read the newspaper, blogs, or even recipes. When we study the Bible inductively we are after the author's original intent; i.e., what the author meant when he wrote the passage to his original audience. In this workbook, you will unpack the meaning by answering a series of questions about the text, paying close attention to the words and context of the passage. After discovering the meaning of the text, there will be questions to help you apply it to your life.
half of the Gospel of Mark in an inductive way. Inductive study is
reading the passage in context and asking questions of the text
with the purpose of deriving the meaning and significance from
the text itself. We do this automatically every day when we read
the newspaper, blogs, or even recipes. When we study the Bible
inductively we are after the author's original intent; i.e., what the
author meant when he wrote the passage to his original audience. In this workbook, you will figure out the meaning by answering a series of questions about the text, paying close attention to the words and context of the passage. After figuring out the meaning of the text, there will be questions to help you apply it to your life.
Twenty-one surgeries by age thirteen. Years in the hospital. Verbal and physical bullying from schoolmates. Multiple miscarriages as a young wife. The death of a child. A debilitating progressive disease. Riveting pain. Abandonment. Unwanted divorce.
Vaneetha Rendall Risner begged God for grace that would deliver her. But God offered something better: his sustaining grace.
In The Scars That Have Shaped Me, Vaneetha does more than share her stories of pain; she invites other sufferers to taste with her the goodness of a sovereign God who will carry us in our darkest of days.
Women shaped the men who changed the world.
History tells of women whose love for the Bible shaped its earliest and most prominent teachers. It tells of women who were great theologians in their own right, yet whose only students were their own children. It tells, time and time again, of Christian men who owe so much to their godly mothers.
Raising children to honor and glorify the Lord is the goal of every Christian mother, but how can you do that? Who can teach you? One of the best ways to learn is to read examples of women who have succeeded at the very task you are attempting.
Come take a brief look at some of them. We will look to the church's earliest days to find a man who owed his salvation to the careful biblical instruction he received on the lap of his mother. We will zoom forward a few centuries to a woman whose constant prayers were at last rewarded when her son came to faith and went on to become one of history's most influential theologians. We will advance to recent centuries to see how the prayers, teaching, and examples of godly mothers have shaped evangelists, preachers, and stalwart defenders of the faith. We will learn together of Christian men and their godly moms, mothers who were used to shape the men who changed the world.
--Tim Challies
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Devoted offers rich encouragement, wisdom, and hope for any mom who longs for her sons and daughters to follow, love, and serve Christ.
--Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, author, teacher, and host of Revive Our Hearts
Devoted: Great Men and Their Godly Moms challenged, inspired, and encouraged me. Tim Challies takes the reader on an inspirational tour through history to meet moms from the first century all the way to the present day. Challies introduces us to moms who struggled in many of the same ways we moms do today. None of these women parented under ideal conditions. It was fascinating to see how God used eleven mothers, with their own unique personalities, abilities, strengths, and weaknesses, to produce great men. These are the mothers of giants in the faith, but there were no studied theologians or perfect moms in the bunch. Although their skill sets and gifting were quite varied, the common denominator was each mom's devotion to Christ. Devoted will encourage moms (and even dads) in the trenches, but also pour out grace and hope on parents of prodigals. Reading Devoted was sheer delight and I highly recommend it.
--Kimberly Wagner, author, Fierce Women
As mom to a young boy, one of my prayers is that the Lord might enable me to be a great mom, but not as measured by the world. Tim has collected for us the stories of women whose greatness was largely hidden. The devoted lives of women like Elizabeth Newton, Amelia Taylor, Mary Machen, and more will inspire and encourage you. These stories and examples, so easily overlooked, are now collected and presented in this accessible and helpful book.
--Trillia Newbell, author of God's Very Good Idea, Enjoy, and Fear and Faith
We look to our heroes of the faith and wonder, 'How did she do it?' Godly moms want their labors to make an impact in eternity, but sometimes persevering to the end of a twenty-four day seems impossible. Challies describes the powerful influence of a godly mother in articulate detail through stories of real women who have gone before us. These women believe the same gospel and cling to the same Christ, and I pray this book encourages many more mothers to follow their lead.
--Gloria Furman, author, Missional Motherhood and Treasuring Christ When Your Hands Are Full
In The Gospel of God: A Bible Study on Romans for Women (Vol 1), wise and helpful questions guide you deep into the text using the three basic steps of all sound Bible study: Observe, Interpret, Apply.
When we study the Bible inductively we want to know what the author meant when he wrote to his original audience. This involves reading Bible passages in context and asking questions about the text. The goal is to find the meaning and significance from the text itself.
We do this automatically every day when we read news, social media, or even recipes! Not surprisingly, it is also the best way to study God's word.
At the beginning of this study you'll find a brief, helpful introduction, including optional Notes for Leaders. This is followed by clear, simple questions that will help you to Observe what is being said, Interpret what Paul was communicating to the original readers, and Apply the Book of Romans in your own life.
The Gospel of God: A Bible Study on Romans for Women (Vol 1) is part of the Delighting in the Word series by Keri Folmar, from Cruciform Press. Each study in the series will impress the truths of Scripture upon your heart and strengthen your Bible study skills. Come delight in God's word, and be encouraged to live more effectively for Jesus and his gospel!
The growing Delighting in the Word Series:
Getting to know that special someone naturally includes learning about family and friends, education and athletics, favorite pastimes, and your hopes and dreams. Ideally, you'll ask each other all kinds of questions, some vital and some trivial, and you'll talk about life's best moments and worst, the brightest places in your background and the darkest.
But what about God? What is his role in your relationship? What do each of you believe about him, and how do you understand his dream for marriage--for your marriage?
At Desiring God, one of our most accessed pages online is a set of questions John Piper put together for couples preparing for marriage (an updated version appears in Appendix I). You'll find many of the typical questions here--about friends and entertainment and lifestyle and children, and many people have found that John's way of putting these questions helps get right at some pretty deep stuff.
But you'll find other questions here, too--about theology, worship and devotion, and the roles of husband and wife--questions that far too many couples don't think to ask. When preparing for marriage, or even in just beginning to consider it, it can be immensely helpful to have the perspective of someone like John Piper, not only a seasoned husband of nearly 50 years, but also a seasoned pastor, careful thinker, and faithful theologian.
Our hope is that a few couples--whether dating and considering marriage, or engaged and preparing for marriage--would find some benefit here, getting to know each other better in some of life's most significant matters, and becoming more fit to discern God's leading for their lives.
But John has more to offer than just the pre-marriage questions. Chapter 1 includes John's counsel about engagement, chapter 2 about wedding planning (and finances). Chapter 3 provides invaluable instruction about the beautiful, complementary dynamic the Bible teaches between husband and wife.
Sexual relations in marriage is the topic of chapter 4. (We know some of you may be flipping straight to that one, now that you know it's there. That's okay. Do read the rest of the book when you can ) Here there is so much potential for pleasure, and so much potential for pain. Don't shy away from giving the topic of sex good consideration and honest discussion during your engagement.
Then, in chapter 5, John helps us ponder how we can guard our marriages in a day in which they are under assault from every side. Finally, chapter 6 is based on perhaps John Piper's single most important message on marriage. There he goes more macro than many of us have ever dared to go in thinking about what marriage is, and what God designed it for. This is a glorious, true, life-changing vision.
After John's long list of pre-marriage questions to discuss, the second appendix is about mission together. Marriage is for mission, too. In particular, the focus here is on hospitality. It's a lightly edited sermon from the series that became the book This Momentary Marriage: A Parable of Permanence, which is where we'd send you to learn more about marriage following this book. (We'd also want to point you to a 30-day devotional for young married couples called Happily Ever After: Finding Grace in the Messes of Marriage, by John Piper and other contributors to desiringGod.org.) For Christians, talking about ministry together, including hospitality (literally, in the New Testament, love for strangers) is essential preparation.
Reevaluate your commitments, check your priorities, rethink your normal. It will be well worth your time to ask difficult questions and think hard about the answers. For your joy, the good of others, and the glory of the church's Groom.
The profound, glorious, liberating realities of our union with Christ.
Best-selling author Jerry Brides (The Pursuit of Holiness, The Discipline of Grace, The Bookends of the Christian Life, and many other books) asks perhaps the most fundamental question of existence: Who am I? He then turns to Scripture to unpack for the Christian eight clear, interlocking, illuminating answers:
A direct, honest presentation of biblical truth, and all new material from Jerry Bridges, Who Am I? demonstrates for believers that they can and should rightfully claim for themselves an unshakeable, lifelong, personal foundation of confidence in one thing and one thing alone: the gospel of a victorious, resurrected Savior.
God wants your heart.
The whole Bible teaches truth and awakens emotions, but the Psalms are in a category of their own. They do not just awaken heart; they put it in the foreground. They do not just invite our emotions to respond to God's truth; they put our emotions on display.
The Psalms are not just commanding; they are contagious. We are not just listening to profound ideas and feelings. We are living among them in their overflow. We touch pillows wet with tears. We hear and feel the unabashed cries of affliction, shame, regret, grief, anger, discouragement, and turmoil. But what makes all this stunningly different from the sorrows of the world is that all of it--absolutely all of it--is experienced in relation to the totally sovereign God.
This book is an invitation. God wants our hearts. He will take them as he finds them. And then, with the healing contagion of the Psalms, he will shape them. Accept his invitation to come.
30 devotional reading from 13 staff and contributors to Desiring God.
Harder than you expected. Better than a fairy tale.
Marriage between sinners has its inevitable messes. If you've been married longer than a week or two, you know how the hard realities of life in a fallen age can come crashing in. Perhaps you had a season of once upon a time, but soon enough you realized that this marriage, in this world, is not yet your happily ever after.
We want to help. We believe that God designed marriage not as a trial to be endured, but as a pointer to and catalyst for your greatest joy. God didn't design marriage to be your storybook ending, but a fresh beginning, to help get you ready for the true happily ever after when together we see our great Bridegroom face to face.
The thirty devotional readings in Happily Ever After have been assembled to shape, challenge, and inspire your and your spouse's (or fianc 's) vision of marriage.
Don't try to do it all. Do more good. Better...in this brand new edition for students.
This is a short, fast-paced, practical guide to productivity. If you are a student, it will tell you what you need to know about getting things done in today's digital world. It will help you learn to structure your life to do the most good to the glory of God.
The consistent focus of this book is one core concept: Productivity is effectively stewarding your gifts, talents, time, energy, and enthusiasm for the good of others and the glory of God.
Productivity calls you to direct your whole life at this great goal of bringing glory to God by doing good for others. Indeed, there is no better plan and no higher ideal. So, ultimately, here is what productivity is all about and, therefore, what this book is all about: doing good to others.
In Do More Better -- Student Editon, you will learn:
It really is possible to live a calm and orderly life, sure of your responsibilities and confident in your progress.
You can do more better.
And I would love to help you get there.
-Tim Challies
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
One: Know Your Purpose
Two: Answer the Call
Three: Define Your Responsibilities
Four: State Your Mission
Five: Select Your Tools
Six: Collect Your Tasks
Seven: Plan Your Calendar
Eight: Gather Your Information
Nine: Live the System
Ten: Maintain It Consistently
Bonus: Tame Your Email
Bonus: 20 Tips to Increase Your Productivity
Selected quotes:
This kind of true, biblical productivity calls you to action in all of life... Jesus calls you to let your light shine before others, and this light is more like a dimmer switch than a simple on and off button. You can reflect more or less of that light to shine before men. The more you let your light shine, the more others will see of your good deeds, and the more they will glorify God....This truth means that productivity is not just about what you do in the workplace. It is not just about your success in the one task that consumes the greatest part of your time and attention each week. It is about all of life. It is about your personal life, your family life, your church life, and everything else.
Make no mistake: It is not easy to live in this world. We human beings are finite creatures who face infinite demands. There are so many things we could do in our lives and in any given moment, but so few we actually can do. There are fewer still we can do with excellence. So much of life involves attempting to strike the right balance between competing demands...all of them are competing for the same 168 hours we are given each week. Though time is so limited, the possibilities for using that time are unlimited. Productivity depends upon brokering peace between each of the different tasks we could prioritize in any given period of time.
Plan to Run, Train to Run...Run to Win
Anyone can start a race, but it takes planning and training to finish it.
A good long-distance runner knows the importance of planning his race. As he passes the starting line he is already considering how he will cross the finish line. As he takes his first easy step, he has planned how he will take his last grueling step.
As a Christian man, you are already running the race of life. You are not competing against other people, but against the deadly enemies of the world, the flesh, and the devil. How do you plan to maintain your pace throughout this race? To obtain the prize, you will need to run to the very end. You will need to cross that finish line. And to do that, you will need to plan your race. You will need to plan the ways you will run today so you can continue to run in the difficult days ahead. That is what this book is all about.
Moms of little ones...here is the joy, humor, and rock-solid encouraging truth you need.
Ready for your motherhood crash course? You'll laugh, cry, and rejoice in God as you learn about:
Join Emily, a Christian mom of six, as she shares her heart, her life, and the vital, Christ-centered lessons she has learned along the way.
Learn the basics of inductive Bible study in a few minutes, gain valuable skills for a lifetime.
Knowable Word offers a foundation on why and how to study the Bible. Using a running study of the first chapter of Genesis, this Revised and Expanded second edition illustrates how to Observe, Interpret, and Apply the Scripture-and gives the vision behind each step. It also shows how to read each Bible passage in light of salvation history. But besides being just a how-to on Bible study, it fuels the desire to learn and grow through studying the Scriptures.
Building on the foundation of the first edition of Knowable Word, released in 2014, this new edition offers further help on following an author's argument, identifying the weightiest segment of a passage, and thereby discovering the main points more clearly. In addition, new material has been added on the topics of literary form, structure, and context. This book will appeal to beginners, mature Christians who want to improve their Bible study skills, and leaders who long not only to teach but to equip.
The first edition of Knowable Word was rated 4.4 of 5 stars on Amazon, with more than 50 verified reviews, including these comments:
Why wasn't this book around when I was 20? I am a student of Scripture and have read several books about how to study Scripture. They were all okay, but lacking. Some were too technical and opaque, others were like Bible study lite. Others attempted to be simple, but weren't clear. This book is simple, clear, and even better helpful! Very helpful. You can download study sheets from their website to help you as you study the Bible. Obviously you will use sheets less as you understand how to study better, which is the point. I cannot say enough good things about the riches to be found here. Do by all means obtain this book and mine its wealth. The effort will reward you.
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So helpful in understanding better how to observe, interpret, and apply the truths of the Bible. I led a book study of this book and lifelong Christians were amazed at how they were incorrect in interpreting scripture.
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I can definitely relate to the author in this book. He has simply put his directions, suggestions, and advice in a way that novices of scripture can understand. Definitely recommend as a good read for pastors amd teachers.
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This book is a very useful tool. It is helpful to both the Bible scholar and someone who has never studied the Bible before. Even my grade school children have been learning and can comprehend how to use these very same Bible study techniques.
Editorial Review ExcerptsI look forward to using this book to improve my own Bible study.
-Jerry Bridges, author and speaker
Peter Krol's book demystifies the process of reading God's Word and in so doing enfranchises the people of God.
-Dr. Tim Chester, The Porterbrook Network
Here is an excellent practical guide to interpreting the Bible.
-Vern Poythress, Professor of New Testament Interpretation, Westminster Theological Seminary
This book does a splendid job of employing the practice of 'learning by doing.'-Leland Ryken, Emeritus Professor of English at Wheaton College and author of How to Read the Bible as Literature