Our study through the book of James continues into chapter 4 with good momentum and incredibly practical and challenging content from the text. Here are the notes divided into sections.
Our study through the book of James continues into chapter 3 with an appropriate balance and reasonable speed. You’ll notice that my study notes changed format with this study. My Bible program of 20+ years finally broke with the latest MacOS update, so I had to (hurriedly) buy and get up to speed on the excellent, but incredibly pricey Logos. Here are the notes divided into sections.
Our class decided it would be cool to change our tack a bit and do a Bible book study instead of our typical topical studies. I’m not sure they’re still glad they did because we (I) are taking quite a bit of time going through, and I’ve gotten a bit too technical in the presentation. I think we’re doing well with a better balance of background, application, and velocity in Chapter 2. Here are the notes divided into sections.
In our class times together, passages and themes from the book of James kept coming up and we decided it would be cool to change our tack a bit and do a Bible book study instead of our typical topical studies. I’m not sure they’re still glad they did because we are (I am) taking quite a bit of time going through, and I’ve gotten a bit too technical in the presentation. You’ll notice as we get close to the end of chapter 1 that I started doing better with that, and I think we’re doing quite well with a better balance of background, application, and velocity in Chapter 2 (next post). Here are the notes divided into four sections along with a bonus (no extra charge!) simple worksheet that I created for my kids since we are studying it with them in parallel.
James Introduction (Pt. 1 of 2) – March 13, 2016 – AAC, 42 min., 21MB
BTW, if you’re interested in the discussion in the introduction about the actual name of the author of the book of James, you should also listen to the first eight or nine minutes of the Palm Sunday lesson, since that topic came up at the beginning of our time together that next week.
James Introduction (Pt. 2 of 2) – March 27, 2017 – AAC, 39 min., 19MB
In John 4, Jesus gave us the two most important instructions on how to properly worship God, and corrected some frequent worship failures. This study considers Jesus’ words carefully and then offers practical ideas for how we can worship God more consistently and effectively.
This (rather lengthy) series grew out of the previous study on the Shemitah and Blood Moon Tetrad. During one of our discussion times in class, one of the members asked, “If this stuff is possibly true, what should we do about it? How should we prepare?” And that question of how we could be ready for the possible return of Christ drove us to the Scripture to answer that question. There are five overarching questions that came out of trying to discover how to be ready.
What are the signs of the end?
How to be ready?
What do you do when told to deny Christ?
Should we be preppers?
What should we do if our government tells us we can’t obey God?
Here are the (again, rather lengthy – 25 pages!) notes from the study, but be warned that even as lengthy as they are, there are many important things that do not come out clearly in the notes, but are clear in the audio recordings. So, please listen to them if you can. Especially if you’re trying to deal seriously with any of these very timely questions.
Also, as quickly becomes clear in the audio recordings, you will understand many of the references much better if you join us and read the book, Killing Christians, by Tom Doyle. This lesson series is in no way a book study, but that book certainly illuminates many of the topics we discuss and provides relevant background examples, and is otherwise a fantastic book every Christ-follower should read.
Further, the book, Do Love, by Andrew Rankin provides great background for the practical application of how we should be living in the light of the Scriptures we study here.
These notes and recordings are a series of studies presented by my wife, Trenna Bingham, in response to questions from class members about how we should view the popular books and articles related to the Shemitah and Blood Moon tetrad they are hearing about today. Like the previous series on the Jewish Feasts, the most important takeaway is to BE READY!!! I’ve included both her Keynote slide deck and a PDF of it for those who don’t have a Mac. 😉
(8/14/15) Here is a new resource I created in preparation for teaching this content again in another setting. It is a timeline of the last eight seven year Shemitah cycles, along with the blood moons, jubilee years, and major economic and Israel-related events.
In addition, here are the audio podcasts of Trenna presenting the content to our Bible Study class. AAC format playable in most browsers, iTunes, and iDevices.
After listening to these again as I prepared them to post, I can only ask again that you listen.
I wrote this sequence of lessons in the Spring of 2006 as an installment of the Heroes of the Bible series. There are 25 lessons from the book of Genesis, some of which have not been developed or taught. They vary from 10 minute mini-lessons to multi-week affairs. I have never had such a large number of lessons come so easily, nor have I ever written lessons that I would likely never teach.
This excellent six part series is an expository study of 1 Corinthians 13, with special application for married couples. Understanding and applying verse 7 is a key focus of the study.
Four lessons on specific character qualities. So far, we’ve covered Wisdom, Discretion, Gratefulness, Integrity, Humility. The lessons are designed not only to challenge and equip adults, but also to give them some ideas how to develop the character qualities in their children.
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