Bonus Video:
Message on a Map
(for Week 39)
(Perhaps the following could be used as a simple [rather than elaborated] list, but each item could be clicked on and lead to some separate page, some collection of information, teaching, and encouragement that expands on each of these important guarantees!)
3x5 Club Guarantees
1) You'll finish the Bible.
2) It won't be that hard.
3) You'll know the Bible better.
4), Your knowledge will snowball.
5) Singing will mean more.
6) You will hear God more clearly.
2) It won't be that hard.
3) You'll know the Bible better.
4), Your knowledge will snowball.
5) Singing will mean more.
6) You will hear God more clearly.
John Calvin on 2 Timothy 3:16-17
"Moreover, this passage teaches us that if we would know Christ, we must seek him in the Scriptures. Anyone who imagines Christ as he will, gets nothing but a mere blur. So we must first hold that Christ is known rightly nowhere but in Scripture. If this be so, our chief purpose in reading the Scriptures must be to arrive at a right knowledge of Christ."
(John Calvin, Commentaries)
(John Calvin, Commentaries)
New Testament Christian and Old Testament Law
Sometime during your reading of the Law weeks, you should perhaps include a column along these lines...
In a conversation on June 25, 1744, John Wesley was asked about Antinomianism. He shared his concern that Christians tended toward that position, which he characterized in terms of these beliefs:
1) That Christ abolished the moral law,
2) That therefore Christians are not obliged to observe it.
3) That one branch of Christian liberty is, liberty from obeying the commandments of God.
4) That it is bondage to do a thing because it is commanded, or forbear it because it is forbidden.
5) That a believer is not obliged to use the ordinances of God, or to do good works.
6) That a preacher ought not to exhort to good works; not unbelievers, because it is hurtful; not believers, because it is needless.
In a conversation on June 25, 1744, John Wesley was asked about Antinomianism. He shared his concern that Christians tended toward that position, which he characterized in terms of these beliefs:
1) That Christ abolished the moral law,
2) That therefore Christians are not obliged to observe it.
3) That one branch of Christian liberty is, liberty from obeying the commandments of God.
4) That it is bondage to do a thing because it is commanded, or forbear it because it is forbidden.
5) That a believer is not obliged to use the ordinances of God, or to do good works.
6) That a preacher ought not to exhort to good works; not unbelievers, because it is hurtful; not believers, because it is needless.
This Week's Teaching Video:
Alphabetzing Old Testament History
Part 2
Issac Watts was a prolific 18th-century hymn writer. Among so many others, we know well "Joy to the World," "O God, Our Help in Ages Past," "Marching to Zion," and "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross."
Charles Wesley was 33 years his junior, yet Watts said that one hymn by Wesley was "worth all the verses he himself had written." That hymn , "Come, O Thou Traveler Unknown," was Wesley's monumental explication of Jacob's wrestling experience in Genesis 32.
In that story, you recall, Jacob asked his opponent his name, and so Wesley returns verse after verse to that theme: the name, the identity of the Wrestler. And, eventually, Wesley writes this: "I know Thee, Savior, who Thou art: Jesus, the feeble sinner's friend."
Charles Wesley was 33 years his junior, yet Watts said that one hymn by Wesley was "worth all the verses he himself had written." That hymn , "Come, O Thou Traveler Unknown," was Wesley's monumental explication of Jacob's wrestling experience in Genesis 32.
In that story, you recall, Jacob asked his opponent his name, and so Wesley returns verse after verse to that theme: the name, the identity of the Wrestler. And, eventually, Wesley writes this: "I know Thee, Savior, who Thou art: Jesus, the feeble sinner's friend."
for the 2014 three my mind and beyond, you want to redesign things in such a way so that you streamline away from some of the unnecessary things you currently have an update every week, and so that you will also in mood and your weekly news a group email that you would send out every week to notify members of website updates, offer a word of encouragement, encourage them to the site, encourage them in their reading, and perhaps provide some extra little things each week – whether it is a more ancient morning to give them that extra something to them keep an eye on the prize.