Posted by Jonathan Bingham on August 14, 2016 under Audio, Bible study, Multiweek, Series | 
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
James Introduction (Pt. 1 of 2) – March 13, 2016 – AAC, 42 min., 21MB
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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
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James Section 1A – Trials
James 1A – I, 1:2-4 (Pt. 1 of 6) – April 3, 2016 – AAC, 42 min., 21MB
(Sorry for the frequent audio issues. Due to a family emergency I was receiving incessant texts and numerous phone calls while I was teaching.)
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James 1A – II, 1:5 (Pt. 2 of 6) – April 10, 2016 – AAC, 45 min., 22MB
(Sorry. Still having audio issues. Not sure why. Need to replace my audio engineer. (me))
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James 1A – III, 1:5 – Faith (Pt. 3 of 6) – April 17, 2016 – AAC, 54 min., 27MB
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James 1A – IV, 1:6 – Faith, the double-minded man (Pt. 4 of 6) – April 24, 2016 – AAC, 49 min., 24MB
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James 1A – V, 1:6-12 – Double-minded man, the poor (Pt. 5 of 6) – May 1, 2016 – AAC, 41 min., 20MB
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James 1A – VI, 1:12 – Rich, and summary of trials (Pt. 6 of 6) – May 15, 2016 – AAC, 47 min., 24MB
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James Section 1B – Temptations
James Section 1C – The Role of God’s Word
James worksheet
More coming soon!
Tags: 1 Cor., 1 Cor. 15, 1 Cor. 9, 1 Kings, 1 Kings 18, Acts, Acts 15, Bible Study, Ecc., Ecc. 5, Faith, Galatians, Galatians 1, Galatians 2, Genesis, Genesis 12, Genesis 16, Genesis 17, Genesis 22, Greek, Hebrews, Hebrews 11, Hebrews 4, Isaiah, Isaiah 40, James, James 1, Jeremiah, Jeremiah 31, John, John 11, John 7, Matthew, Matthew 13, Matthew 14, Matthew 21, Ministry, Proverbs, Proverbs 10, Proverbs 2, Psalm, Psalm 49, Psalm 51, Revelation, Revelation 2, Romans, Romans 5, Temptation, Trials
Posted by Jonathan Bingham on December 6, 2015 under Audio, Bible study, Multiweek |
This study came from four different sources that are closely related in their practical truths. I was reading something and came across this quote:
“Bad habits are easy to make, but hard to live with. Good habits are hard to make, but easy to live with.”
And somehow God took that thought and reminded me of one of my favorite Andy Stanley sermon series, Destinations: The Principle of the Path. And when I started thinking about that, I remembered a recent sermon by one of our teaching pastors where he talked about the process of how our thoughts become attitudes and actions, and how those actions become habits, and how those habits will determine our lives. And then I remembered some great wisdom from Andy Andrews that really helps make it all practical.
I began thinking about all four principles and realized there is an important reminder / warning for us at any age and place in life that we be careful with our minds, intentionally choose what is influencing our decisions, and make sure the destinations that are set by our current paths are where we want to end up.
Where Are You Going?
And in the process of doing that lesson, I updated an old lesson on controlling your thoughts.
Control Your Mind – Update
And in the Scripture meditation point I realized it would be helpful for me to put together a starter list of passages for people to meditate on.
Meditation
Here are the recordings of my teaching this series (AAC format playable in most browsers, iTunes, and iDevices):
(My new lapel microphone does a much better job getting my audio, but a much poorer job picking up audio from the group, and this lesson had a huge amount of wonderful discussion that ended up being large chunks of silence on the recording, so I had to remove it. That results in some odd transitions, but it’s better than wasting the listeners’ time. I may have to start running two separate recordings to capture both well.)
Week 1 – Introduction (8/2/15), 47 min., 24MB
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Week 2 – Destination (8/23/15), 41 min., 20MB
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Week 3 – Direction (8/30/15), 28 min., 14MB
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Week 4 – Direction (9/6/15), 42 min., 21MB
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Week 5 – Direction (9/13/15), 32 min., 16MB
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Week 6 – Decisions / Thoughts (9/20/15), 44 min., 22MB
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Week 7 – Friends (9/27/15), 40 min., 20MB
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Week 8 – Friends (do-over) (10/4/15), 20 min., 10MB
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Week 9 – Friends / Music (10/18/15), 33 min., 16MB
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Week 10 – Music / Books (10/25/15), 52 min., 26MB
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Week 11 – Bible / Scripture Memory / Scripture Meditation (11/29/15), 44 min., 22MB
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Week 12 – Prayer / Worship (12/6/15), 16 min., 8MB
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Tags: 1 Thess., 1 Thess. 2, 2 Cor., 2 Cor. 10, 2 Cor. 6, Bible Study, Books, Colossians, Colossians 3, Decisions, Deut., Deut. 7, Direction, Ephesians, Ephesians 5, Friends, Galatians, Galatians 6, Hebrews, Hebrews 4, Hosea, Hosea 8, Isaiah, Isaiah 55, James, James 1, Job, Job 31, Lifestyle, Matthew, Matthew 7, Meditation, Music, Philippians, Philippians 4, Prayer, Proverbs, Proverbs 13, Proverbs 14, Proverbs 16, Proverbs 21, Proverbs 22, Proverbs 3, Proverbs 4, Psalm, Psalm 119, Psalm 26, Psalm 51, Romans, Romans 12, Thoughts, Wisdom, Worship
Posted by Jonathan Bingham on June 24, 2012 under Bible study, Multiweek |
This study focuses on the importance of Bible Study in the life of a believer.
BTB – The Bible
Tags: 1 Thess., 1 Thess. 2, 2 Peter, 2 Peter 1, 2 Timothy, 2 Timothy 2, 2 Timothy 3, Bible Study, Ephesians, Ephesians 6, Hebrews, Hebrews 4, James, James 1, Psalm, Psalm 119, Revelation, Revelation 20
