Bible Study Series 📜✏️
The Bible Study Series category covers a range of possibilities. It might be a series based on an important passage. Maybe a chapter from one book, or even the entire book. It will also be a theme that will cover several books.
Any individual Bible study series may be a mix of inductive, topical, and application type studies.
They will always be reflective in nature. After all, my goal is not to tell you what to believe, but rather to encourage you to know why you believe what you believe.
The Bible Study Series invites readers into a deeper relationship with God through Scripture, reflection, and community. Each post is designed to illuminate spiritual truths and offer practical encouragement.
The first new category is Revelation: A book of hope through relationship, which is in progress now.
At the same time, another Revelation series is being migrated from my old site: Seven Letter to the Seven Churches. This one has additional background information on the churches including history, culture, and language. It will add to the understanding of how and why the hope is present, even in the midst of what’s happening there to prompt these letters.
Blessed are the poor in spirit
The Beatitudes: Re-evaluating Spiritual Poverty
In a world that celebrates self-sufficiency, Jesus turns our expectations upside down. Discover why true blessing begins when we empty ...
Christians’ view of judgment may be more important than what really happens
An AI conversation about exploring Christian beliefs on accounting for sins
Does God remember every sin of a believer at judgment, or does His grace wipe the slate clean? Born out ...
Victorious overcomers can eat from the tree of life
Closing the Letter to Ephesus: Love, Endurance, and the Promise Restored
How can a church on the brink of losing its status still receive the promise of paradise? In this final ...
The Beatitudes – Introduction
Understanding the People Who First Heard These Words
This introduction looks at the people who surrounded Jesus — their lives, their pressures, their reasons for showing up. Understanding ...
Yet I hold this against you – Jesus said to Ephesus
Seeing Jesus’ words as part of God’s long pattern of warning us for our good.
Jesus’ words to Ephesus carry both affirmation and a sobering warning: “Yet I hold this against you.” This article explores ...
The Sermon on the Mount – Introduction
When What Once Shook the World Barely Gets Our Attention
A brief introduction to the Sermon on the Mount — a teaching that once shook the world but now often ...
Our Father in Heaven
Learning about the relationship between us and God
A look at four words in the Lord's Prayer - Our Father in Heaven. What's lost in our short English ...
An Introduction to The Letter to The Church In Ephesus
Important reference information for the letter to Ephesus
Explore the letter to the church in Ephesus (Revelation 2:1–7). This introduction unpacks themes of perseverance, forgotten first love, and ...
Testing Apostles: Series Introduction
A series on Jesus' commendation for testing false apostles
Revelation 2:2 is only half of a sentence, but it's packed with thoughts that require spiritual discernment. Jesus praises the ...
Is God A Friend Or Foe – A Lesson from Pharaoh
God has not forgotten you—Pharaoh’s story shows how even resistance becomes a lesson in God’s care.
Exploring how Pharaoh’s story reveals a God who teaches, warns, and refuses to forget the people He created—even those who ...
When Perseverance Might Not Feel Like Victory
What the Letter to Ephesus Really Says About Not Growing Weary
Revelation 2:3 sounds straightforward, yet the verse sits in a letter where the tone isn’t simple at all. Depending on ...
How Revelation Really Begins — and Why It Matters 💌
He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John
What is the book of Revelation in the Bible? Sounds like a weird question. Everyone knows what it is, don't ...
This then is how you should pray…
Learning to Walk With God Instead of Walking Alone
Many of us feel like we’re walking through life alone. Jesus’ words, “This then is how you should pray,” wasn't ...
This Then Is How You Should Not Pray
What Happens When Prayer Becomes Performance
Before Jesus teaches the Lord's Prayer, He warns us how not to pray. This look at His words reveals why ...
A Modern-day Functional Equivalent of the Early Church Apostle?
Living the Mission Without the Title — and Why It Still Matters
This article explores how early‑church apostles carried unique authority—and why that role no longer exists today. Yet every believer still ...
What “Apostle” Meant Back Then
Recovering the Knowledge the Early Church Needed to Test Apostles
We hear the word “apostle” often, but the early church didn’t use it casually. They understood it, tested it, and ...
What is the book of Revelation in the Bible? 🌅
And why is the introduction so important?
Revelation is often misunderstood. Its opening verses remind us it’s not a book of chaos but an unveiling from God—one ...
Bible Study Series 📜✏️Who Hardened Pharaoh's Heart? ❤️🪦Hot Topics & Tough QuestionsReal Life Meets the Bible
Who hardened Pharaoh’s heart? ❤️🪦
A six-part Biblical journey through the plagues & a hardened heart
Explore Pharaoh’s story through six themes: stubbornness, justice, mercy, and the cost of resisting God. Discover what a hardened heart ...
I know that you cannot tolerate wicked men
Divine knowledge of the church in Ephesus - discernment in action
What did Jesus mean by “I know that you cannot tolerate wicked men”? Explore the Greek, Hebrew, and cultural context ...
Believe, Believe In, or Follow God? — A Journey Begins 🥾
Before the journey begins - preparation for the study
This isn’t just a word study. Of course, we need to look at the words. But then, as the title ...
Ephesus – To/From: Who Speaks, Who Listens, and Why Love Was Lost
Letter to the church in Ephesus: Symbolism and spiritual accountability in the church that forgot love
What went so wrong with the relationships between people and God that the letter to the Church in Ephesus that ...
Human Happiness vs. God’s Joy
Jesus' Invitation in the Beatitudes Begins
We chase happiness, but Jesus offers something deeper: joy rooted in relationship, not circumstance. This opening post in the Beatitudes ...
To the Angel of the Church in Ephesus
Who Speaks, Who Listens, and Why Love Was Lost (Part 1)
What went so wrong with the relationships between people and God that the letter to the Church in Ephesus that ...
Revelation – The seven churches – Who or what are they?
And why we must care.
Revelation is such a dramatic book. An apocalyptic vision. The last days of the earth. But there's so much to ...
The Trinity in Revelation—Even If the Word Isn’t There
Revelation and the Trinity: Understanding God’s Triune Greeting
Wait a second. Where did that word Trinity come from? It's not in the beginning of Revelation. Actually, it's not ...