I have started a home church. Been going for 6 weeks now with one other dechurched couple. I’ve become the de-facto teacher since others don’t have the time to do the preparation. But so far so good. Finding I have some things to learn about communicating the Word effectively to others. It’s one thing to …
Balaam’s Blessing
How beautiful are your tents, O Jacob, and your dwelling places, O Israel! Numbers 24:5 There is a very interesting story in the Book of Numbers that goes on for three chapters, Num 22-24. To make a long story short for the sake of the post (not that any of my posts are short), the …
Personal Interpretation of the Bible Part 3 – 12 Simple Rules
The last post gave my 7 overarching principles to help frame personal biblical study and interpretation. In this post, I’d like to recommend several rules to help you extract intended meaning from the text. All this means is letting the Bible text speak for itself. The simple rules provided here are the mechanics of that …
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Personal Interpretation of the Bible Part 2 – 7 Principles to Guide Your Study
I have a lot of Bibles! If you are a Christian I bet you do too. I have a box of pocket bibles for handing out to people. I have two massive study bibles. I have a cheap Bible I bought for $12.95 when I first got saved and I know there are several more …
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Visioning a Home Church
Starting a home church is not to say there are not good churches out there. I am sure there are but I can’t find one. I know there are pros and cons but the loss of the local neighborhood church is tragic and even unbiblical and the further down the dark road this country goes, …