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The Story of Scripture – Genesis to Revelation – Part 6: The Kings
Read more: The Story of Scripture – Genesis to Revelation – Part 6: The KingsThe story begins to take a turn in 1st Samuel chapter 8 when the people cry out for a king, and God said “it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king.” Thus, the first king of Israel chosen by the people is Saul. Things started off well for Saul, but it didn’t…
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The Story of Scripture – Genesis to Revelation – Part 5: Joshua, Judges and Ruth
Read more: The Story of Scripture – Genesis to Revelation – Part 5: Joshua, Judges and RuthNow we step into the next set of books: the 12 books of history. We step into the entrance into the land, and the conquering of the land. Joshua is all about the land. Judges is about a time when they were in the land, but they had no King. They didn’t have a king…
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The Story of Scripture – Genesis to Revelation – Part 4: Law for the Land
Read more: The Story of Scripture – Genesis to Revelation – Part 4: Law for the LandLaw for the Land Then we flip the page to the book of Exodus, and it is a different story. There is another Pharaoh who did not know Joseph, and the people have now been enslaved. God miraculously preserves and then calls someone by the name of Moses, who was trained by the enemy and…
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The Story of Scripture – Genesis to Revelation – Part 3: Abrahamic Covenant
Read more: The Story of Scripture – Genesis to Revelation – Part 3: Abrahamic CovenantAbrahamic Covenant Then in chapter 12, suddenly, something radically changes, because it is there we begin to see where we had a problem, there is a solution. It is found in the fact we have a covenant God, and what God says is always true. What He promises, He will make good on. So, where…
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The Story of Scripture – Genesis to Revelation – Part 2: Sin, Rebellion, Separation from God, and Death
Read more: The Story of Scripture – Genesis to Revelation – Part 2: Sin, Rebellion, Separation from God, and DeathSin, Rebellion, Separation from God, and Death[1] Why do we miss it? Because in Genesis chapter three, that tree of knowledge of good and evil comes into play. It is a unique chapter because we have a serpent that is present, and the text does not really tell us why, other than the fact that…
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The Story of Scripture – Genesis to Revelation – Part 1: God Creates a Wonderful World and Places the First People in a Fruitful Garden
Read more: The Story of Scripture – Genesis to Revelation – Part 1: God Creates a Wonderful World and Places the First People in a Fruitful GardenStructure So, let us start with the structure of the Bible. There are some important numbers to start with: 5-12-5-5-12. This makes up the 39 books of the Old Testament. The first five books are referenced as the Pentateuch, or the Torah (which means The Law). They can also be referenced as the Five Books…
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The Whole Bible Story
Read more: The Whole Bible StoryI recently read The Whole Bible Story by Dr. William H. Marty, and I wrote this blog to analyze the overall organization of Marty’s presentation, why I think he ordered the structure in the manner he did and what components he utilized that I found helpful in telling the biblical narrative. Marty presented The Whole…
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Questioning Evangelism
Read more: Questioning EvangelismThe main idea of Questioning Evangelism: Engaging People’s Hearts the Way Jesus Did is that responding to questions from skeptics with questions is more affect than responding with answers. Newman splits the book up into three parts. Part One tells the reader why asking questions is so effective. Part Two gives examples of some of…
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The Reason for God
Read more: The Reason for GodIn The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism, Tim Keller, splits up the book in two parts. The first part, titled “The Leap of Doubt”, is Keller writing about the major challenges that bring on doubting God. Each chapter in “Part 1” is designated for a specific doubt. They are as follows…
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True Evangelism
Read more: True EvangelismIn his book True Evangelism: Winning Souls Through Prayer (Kregel Classics), Lewis Sperry Chafer first approaches evangelism by identifying and discussing the “false forces” in evangelism in Chapter 1. He explains these forces consist of “a false issue”, “a false assurance”, “backsliding”, “discredit to the covenant of God”, and “dishonor to the Spirit of God”.…
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