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Bible Study Lessons This is a list of adult Bible Study lessons that have been presented, in reverse order, so the latest is at the top. Touch the name to go to the lesson Over time, these lessons have become more advanced and some are now very advanced material that may require understanding less deep concepts that are still not widely known. Sometimes these are found in earlier lessons. I also have a YouTube channel that is focused on prophecy. That has now moved to Rumble, although the previous videos are still on YouTube. I also have a book you might find interesting. |
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2026 | ||
Hearing and Feeling God | Many people claim to hear the voice of God and feel the presence of God. What does the Bible say about this? Will we know when the Spirit become inactive? | 2026-02-16 |
Emotional Arguments | If one person is using logical arguments and the other is using emotional arguments, nothing useful can come of it. This study looks at a video where this situation is at play and how it could have been better. | 2026-02-26 |
Clean and the Christian | In the Old Testament, and specifically the Torah, there is a heavy emphasis on being clean, but in the New Testament there is hardly a mention of it and Christians do not follow those rules. What changed? | 2026-02-22 |
What Was Stephen's Point | In the story of Stephen, he gives a long-winded history which makes the leaders angry and they kill him. What was the problem with what he said? | 2026-02-18 |
The Law and the Prophets | In many places, the New testament talks about the Law and the Prophets. What does that mean? The answer is far more complex than you might think. | 2026-02-19 |
A Step Too Far | Even the smallest change is too much for most churches. Their traditions keep them rooted in the ground. | 2026-02-09 |
Application Church | Preachers are taught to provide applications at the end of their sermons. Are these Biblical, beneficial, or harmful? | 2026-02-12 |
153 Fish? | When the resurrected Jesus said, "Cast your net on the other side," were there really 153 great fish in the net? | 2026-02-06 |
Dancing Before the Lord | In the Bible, many people danced, including King David. His dancing caused trouble with his wife, which reflects the problems Christianity has had with dancing. | 2026-01-30 |
Deathbed Conversion | When people are at death's door, is it possible for them to become Christians? Is it fair and just that they would receive eternal life after only hours or days as Christians? | 2026-01-16 |
Questions Faith Does Not Ask | A person who wants questions answered before he can have faith, will never have faith. His faithless questioning can even cause others to doubt and lose faith. | 2026-01-03 |
2025 | ||
Ten Commandments - 4th History | The history of Sabbath Observance in Christianity, both a personal recent history and the history from Jesus' time. | 2017-01-15 |
Lying About Guilt | A YouTube author claims that some guilt does not come from sin and therefore needs to be sent away and ignored. | 2025-12-29 |
He Has Anointed Me | In his hometown of Nazareth, by reading a passage from Isaiah, Jesus tells the people at the synagogue that he was anointed by God. Why are liberals unable to understand what he says? | 2025-12-23 |
The Missing Commandment | Nine of the Ten Commandments are plainly commandments, do this, don't do that. The 4th Commandment isn't like them. Do we really know that commandment? | 2025-12-23 |
We Will Go to a City | James speaks of a hypothetical person saying he will go to a city for a year and earn money. Most people get the basic idea that James is conveying but there is more to pull from it. James also speaks about judging. | 2025-12-20 |
Canada, Christians and Hate Laws | Canada has had hate laws for 30 years. They seriously impacted Christians in the past. Those relented somewhat but the current government is trying to bring them back. | 2025-12-10 |
Jesus Alone Saves | One of the dividing points in the Protestant Reformation was Solus Christus (Only Christ). Even now, the Roman Catholic Church struggles with this. | 2025-11-10 |
The Mystery of the Sandals | At the burning bush, God told Moses to remove his sandals because the ground was holy. Why was there a problem with wearing them? | 2025-12-06 |
The Star of Bethlehem | What was the star of Bethlehem. Many people have made bad guesses. The Bible provides the correct answer. | 2025-12-05 |
Clearly Hebrews | Hebrews is a difficult book to understand because it makes many references to Judaism that most Christians don't understand. Mostly people pull out little nuggets that they may or may not understand. This large study explains what the author is saying. | 2021-05-16 |
Problems With Christmas | There are many problems with Christmas. This study looks at many of the spiritual / theological problems associated with Christmas. It also looks at a couple of the problematic practices associated with Christmas | 2019-03-07 |
After Death | The traditional view and other views of what happens after death are compared to a large number of Bible verses. This is the entire document. The changes since last year's study are underlined so you can skip the rest, if you like | 2026-01-xx 2018-01-08 |
Psalm 127 | Psalm 127 is as short as it is cryptic. This study explains what Solomon is saying and the spiritual meaning beneath it. | 2025-11-09 |
Sheep From Another Pen | Jesus said he had sheep that were not from this pen. What did he mean by that? | 2025-11-04 |
Pushing God Around | We would never intentionally try to manipulate God into doing what we want, but we do it sometimes anyway. This study looks at an author who has done that without realizing it. | 2025-11-01 |
Orbiting What? | Some people are "in orbit" around their church instead of being in orbit around God. If the teachings of the their church were the same as God's, it wouldn't matter, but they aren't the same. | 2025-10-08 |
Restricted Women | Some cultures have restrictions on women that contend against the natures of men and women. What could have caused such a disagreeable change? | 2025-10-06 |
Guilt and Thunderbolts | The recent Marvel Thunderbolts movie raises an interesting topic this is a problem for all people, yet they provide no real solution to the problem. What were they thinking? | 2025-10-10 |
Three Views of the Prodigal Son | We look at three different views on the meaning of the parable of The Prodigal Son, the traditional view, the liberal view, and the complete view. | 2025-09-17 |
Pre-Tribulation Rapture | The Christian World has suffered through another episode of a failed prediction of Jesus' return. Why does this keep happening? | 2025-09-26 |
Who You Listen To | We can't help but hear the voices of people but we must be ready to listen to God's voice. This has been a problem since Adam and Eve. | 2025-09-13 |
Shroud of Turin | The Shroud of Turin is a great embarrassment to Christianity, but few Christians know that. How should Christians think of it? | 2025-08-13 |
Worship in Spirit and Truth | Jesus said a time was coming soon when his people would worship in spirit and truth. Great! What does that mean? | 2025-08-10 |
Three Kinds of Servants | Jesus talked about three kinds of servants in a parable about some of his followers who are not good followers. | 2025-07-19 |
The Narrow Gate | Most people know that Jesus talked about a narrow gate and restricted path, and that he explains it with a parable about the master of the house. This study into what he said finds things most people don't know. | 2025-07-14 |
Children on the New Earth | Isaiah tells us about life on the New Earth, but he also talks about children, old people, and dying. How can that be? | 2025-07-14 |
You Shall Not Be Called Rabbi | Many people do not have the spiritual level of understanding at which Jesus is teaching. This causes them to misunderstand this teaching and others. | 2025-06-29 |
Translators Have Agendas | Many Bible translators have biases, and some have agendas for pushing those biases. These are seen when the Bible speaks on the "hot button" issues of our time, like homosexuality, slavery, and the broad category of feminism. A recent addition to most Bibles is section headers. In this study, we see that these are being used as a tool to advance agendas. But the real question is: who will you choose to be your guide? | 2025-06-10 |
Your Desire Will Be For Your Husband | What does God mean when he says to Eve, "Your Desire Will Be For Your Husband" | 2025-05-29 |
The Guilt Offering | In Judaism, the Old Testament described a sacrifice called the Guilt Offering. Many people have trouble understanding why this other offering for sin existed. This offering still relates to Christians and appears in the New Testament, though it is hard to see. Once we make the connection, we can answer other questions. Why do we sometimes feel guilt, and what should we do about it? | 2025-05-28 |
War in Heaven | Revelation 12 speaks about an angel-on-angel war in Heaven that results in Satan and his angels being kicked out and down to Earth permanently. That's an interesting idea, but in this study, we are more interested in the consequences of that to the Jews and Christians on the earth at that time. The study does a deep dive into that chapter. | 2025-05-22 |
The 40,000-Foot View | In Christianity, many studies are produced that take a very high-level view of God or the Bible, so high that the details are lost, and it becomes disconnected from the Bible. This study looks at examples of these, showing that they have no value. | 2025-04-16 |
So That You May Know | In the New Testament, there are a few places where it says, "So that you may know." In these places, there is an event that people are supposed to see when it happens. This event is to be a sign to them so they will know that something is true. In this study, we look at each of those, what they were to see, and what they were to know from that. | 2025-04-07 |
Division in the Church | Some churches believe that Christians should never say anything that would cause a division within the church. Additionally, they usually say that causing divisions gives Satan a foothold in the church. We can imagine how and why they came to this conclusion, but the idea is not found in the Bible. In fact, sometimes division is necessary. | 2025-03-29 |
Lincoln's Guilt | Lincoln acted on his own desire and without a legal basis when he provoked the Confederates into war. What does the Bible say? | 2025-03-27 |
Who or What is the Snake? | The Genesis account doesn't tell us much directly about the snake that deceived Eve. Because of other verses, most Christians believe Satan was the snake. If they think about how, they probably think he was impersonating a snake, making himself look like a snake. If we look closely at the Genesis verses and some verses about Jesus, there is much more we can learn. | 2025-03-24 |
Eating Blood | Are Christians instructed not to eat blood? Most Christians think they can eat anything. But this was part of the first theological question the Christian church needed to settle. The decision was that they should not do so and neither should they eat food sacrificed to other gods. It seems strange that we should follow these two laws but not the other laws in the Old Covenant. But it does make sense when you understand the background. | 2025-03-20 |
Eating Manna | This detailed look at the Israelites' encounter with Manna shows how they learned to follow God's rules. But despite the daily miracles God performed in providing for them, they were not able to enter the promised land when the time came. Instead, they would wander in the wilderness for 39 more years until that generation had died out. | 2025-03-19 |
Eating Forbidden Fruit | This is a very detailed look at the original sin by Adam and Eve. We start with the right good question and some understanding of their nature, and look at what they mean by what they say, what they must be thinking, what motivates them, and other factors. We do this by asking good questions - likely questions you've never thought of asking - and see if the Bible gives us the information we need to find the answers. | 2025-02-28 |
The Cleansing of the Spirit | The ways in which the Holy Spirit cleans us | 2025-02-02 |
Come Out Of Her, My People | In Revelation, God calls to his people to come out of a woman. Why are these people in this woman? What is this telling us? | 2025-02-01 |
After Death | The After Death study for 2025 focusing on destinations. | 2025-01-08 |
The Best God | Is God the best god in your life? If so, that means there are other gods in your life. Ezekiel says, even if you reject a god, it is still a god to you, and the one true God does not accept that. Any other thing that is a god to others, should be nothing to you. The commandment says there should be no other god in your life. | 2025-01-01 |
2024 | ||
The Nicodemus Teachings | Nicodemus is a teacher of the people, so Jesus expects a lot from him and packs a lot into some teachings that he gives to him. | 2024-12-21 |
You Have Heard … | In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus addresses some bad teachings that have gotten into Judaism. For these 6 items, Jesus begins by saying, "You have heard …". In this study, we look at what people are saying and why and we look at what Jesus says about how they should live. | 2024-11-26 |
How I Got Here | The path God took me on to becoming a real Christian | 2024-11-11 |
The Church Business Plan | Does God want his churches to be run like corporations with business plans? | 2024-09-12 |
| Sabbatismos, 5 Ways | In this technical study, we see there are 5 ways to understand the meaning of the Greek word "Sabbatismos" in Hebrews 4 | 2024-08-21 |
| My Lord The Time Has Come | A poem based on the four horsemen of Revelation | 2024-08-09 |
| What Should Have Happened In The Garden | No one ever asks what should have happened in the Garden of Eden when the snake started saying new things to Eve. | 2024-06-29 |
How Many Strikes | One of the most basic questions in Christianity can't be answered by most Christians. | 2024-05-26 |
The Church of Thyatira | Most people don't understand Revelation's message to the Church of Thyatira. It's also a message to the churches of our time. Do not tolerate what is wrong. | 2024-04-28 |
Bible Text Tampering | A study of the worst, and most obvious, case of tampering with the text of the Bible. | 2024-04-08 |
| The Continuing Story Of Adam And Eve | The story of Adam and Eve is not about two people that we have nothing in common with. | 2024-03-29 |
Fearless | People deal with fear in many ways but God wants us to be fearless. Even though things happen that could cause us to fear, the Bible says faith and love will keep the fear out of us. The Bible says a lot about fear, as we will see. | 2024-03-24 |
Judges 19 | A deep look into one of the grizzly stories of the Bible. | 2024-03-17 |
| Arguments On Mark 7:19 | Some translations render Mark 7:19 as a declaration by Jesus that all meats are clean. This study argues against that idea. | 2024-02-26 |
| Sometimes Faithfulness Is A Closed Mouth | God may reveal things to us that he doesn't want us to reveal to others | 2024-01-29 |
A Funny Thing Happened on the Road to Feminism | Based on a large number of YouTube videos on this topic, we see that Feminism, plus other factors, have caused an unexpected consequence. Women were told they could have a career, live a sexually free lifestyle, and then get married. Having done that, they are now discovering that men will not marry them. | 2024-01-28 |
2023 | ||
The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse | Understanding what the message is behind the Four Horsemen of Revelation | 2023-12-10 |
| The Sun Will Be Darkened | Looking at the many Bible verses about the Sun darkening and when that happens | 2023-12-07 |
The 3rd Temptation of Jesus | There is a widespread misunderstanding of the 3rd temptation that Satan offers Jesus. | 2023-11-26 |
Ending The Apostolic Age | The Apostolic Age was an important step in the progression of Christianity. It was very different from the Christianity we know. | 2023-07-24 |
The Biblical View of Reparation for Slavery | Is something due to blacks for slavery? The Bible speaks both on the crime and the path to reparation. | 2023-07-15 |
Sometimes, Grace is a Thorn | We think of grace as being good things or, at least, escape from bad things. Grace isn't always like that though. | 2023-06-29 |
| Nirvana - Heart Shaped Box | A study of the meaning of the lyrics and video imagery for the Nirvana song - Heart Shaped Box | 2023-06-20 |
Is The Bible Trustworthy? | The Bible is attacked in many ways to show that it is not trustworthy. In this study we look at attacks on what the Bible says about existance, on the Bible's manuscripts, and on what the Bible says about history. | 2023-05-21 |
| Zechariah 11 - 14 | An analysis of the last 4 chapters of Zechariah | 2023-05-16 |
| The Sermon on the Mount | An analysis of the Sermon on the Mount, beginning with the Beatitudes | 2023-04-18 |
Where Is God In Esther | Answering the question: why is God never mentioned in the book of Esther? | 2023-03-24 |
History of Passover | Passover has been through many changes since God created it in Exodus 12. In this study, we look at what Passover was at first and all the changes that have been made to it, by God and man. | 2023-03-05 |
Zipporah | A look at Zipporah, the wife of Moses, and the intricacies of birth purification and circumcision | 2023-02-09 |
The Sixth Trumpet | A study of the 6th Trumpet events from Revelation | 2023-01-28 |
| Sabbatismos | The book of Hebrews uses the Greek word Sabbatismos but the translations of it are odd. What is the correct meaning? | 2023-01-24 |
2022 | ||
| Understanding Parables | Many Christians don't understand how to get the message that lies beneath a parable | 2022-12-26 |
| Eating From The Tree Of Life | What would have been the consequence of eating from the Tree of Life? | 2022-12-16 |
| Was Adam There? | Was Adam Present When Eve Sinned? | 2022-12-14 |
| Chanukah | Should we care about Chanukah (Hanukkah)? | 2022-12-11 |
| Jesus' Resurrection Body | Was Jesus' resurrected into the same kind of body that we will have when we are resurrected? | 2022-12-06 |
| 3 Breaths | The Bible uses 3 words to describe the nature of mankind. Each of these is sometimes translated to the word "breath". | 2022-11-25 |
| The End Of Prophets? | Some theological schools are teaching that Jesus said there would be no more prophets after John the Baptist. Is that valid? | 2022-10-25 |
| Why God Gave Men The Lead Role | Paul makes it clear that men have the lead role in the home and in the church. Why should that be? | 2022-10-17 |
Women In The Church | Paul says many things about the role of women in the church. Much of what he says is not understood correctly. | 2022-10-16 |
| Pulling Eve From Under The Bus | Some people feel the need to defend Eve and thereby defend all women. This causes them to twist what the Bible says. | 2022-04-03 |
| The Change in Eve | What exactly changed in Eve when she ate the fruit that she knew good and evil? What had she been like before that event? | 2022-04-03 |
The Sixth Seal | The Sixth Seal from Revelation provides the background to understanding other things that will be going on at the time. These events are the kick-off for the end of the end-times. They also have consequences that we see appear later in Revelation. Paul and Jesus both spoke about these. | 2022-07-26 |
| Passover: What, When, and Why | A study of the details of Passover, many of which are not known by most Christians | 2022-04-03 |
2020 - 2021 | ||
| End-Times Events | A list of the "Can't Miss" events of the end-times | 2021-04-18 |
| Imminence | The Doctrine of Imminence is studied | 2021-04-04 |
| Did God Change The Ten | Exodus 34 can be read in a way that makes it seem like God replaces the Ten Commandments with a different set. Is this correct? | 2021-02-06 |
| First Church | Looking at the first church to form after Jesus' time. Was it supposed to be a model for us? | 2020-09-11 |
| The Structure of Leviticus 23 | Leviticus 23 is known to describe the feast days but it describes other things and has been structured in very specific ways | 2020-09-20 |
Thieves | It's possible for us to steal, and even to steal from God. This study discusses the ways we do that and how we can combat the desire to do that. | 2020-08-09 |
| Pacifism and the Christian | Answering the question whether Pacifism is the way of the Christian | 2020-01-05 |
| Shavu'ot - Weeks | A look at the many facets of the feast of Shavu'ot (Feast of Weeks) | 2020-05-18 |
| How Long | How long until the Messiah returns | 2020-03-02 |
| Satan Attacks the Church | 2020-03-02 | |
| The Sabbath for Beginners | Making the change to Sabbath Keeping | 2020-03-01 |
| Marriage - Covenant | How God's marriage covenant works | 2020-02-23 |
2019 | ||
| Keeping The Sabbath | What the Bible says about how we should keep the Sabbath | 2019-12-25 |
| Matching Bible Words | A matching puzzle where Bible words are matched with their meanings | 2019-12-23 |
Christmas Date And History | There are many problems with Christmas. This study looks at the problems associated with the supposed date and the history of that date. It also looks at a couple of the practices associated with Christmas | 2019-12-14 |
Liberal Church | How the moral values of a liberal worldview causes a person to act and the effect on a church | 2019-07-21 |
| What The Sabbath Is Not | A rebuttal of the CoG7 Denver redefinition of the Sabbath as presented in a Sabbath School lesson | 2019-07-07 |
| What Is The Sabbath | Understanding the Sabbath as described in the 4th Commandment | 2019-06-16 |
Revelation Overview | Revelation has layers. In this study we open it up layer by layer to get a good overview of the book. | 2019-06-04 |
| The Afterlife According to Job | A look at the references to the afterlife in Job | 2019-03-17 |
| Why Does a Loving God | Answering the common question 'Why does a loving God allow evil' | 2019-02-24 |
| Old Covenant - New Covenant Relationship | A study of God's Covenants focusing on the covenant with Israel and the new covenant, with the purpose of developing a method for determining what things from the old covenant continue on in the new covenant | 2019-01-20 |
| Salvation In The Millennium | A study of how salvation would work during the Millennium rule by Jesus | 2019-01-01 |
2018 | ||
| To Sleep Perchance To Dream | A study of Jesus' use of "sleep" where we would say "dead" | 2018-09-29 |
| What's With Elijah and Jezebel's Prophets | A study of the "battle of the God's" that Elijah sets up and the full meaning of the "still small voice" | 2018-08-26 |
| Introduction to Prophecy | A high-level introduction to prophecy | 2018-07-21 |
| 2 Peter 1 / Prophecy | A detailed study of 2 Peter 1:12-21 and his reference to the value of prophecy | 2018-07-12 |
| What Are We | A detailed study of the essence of what we are | 2018-05-29 |
| Your Future Body | A detailed study of the bodies we will have after the resurrection | 2018-04-12 |
| The Coming of the Kingdom | A look at all the references in the Bible to the Kingdom of Heaven | 2018-02-25 |
The Children Are Free | How a fish with a coin in its mouth shows us how separate we are (should be) from the world | 2018-02-11 |
| Seriousness of Sin | How serious sin is, to God | 2018-01-21 |
After Death | The traditional and CoG7 views and a large number of Bible verses | 2018-01-08 |
2017 | ||
| Hail, Fire And Water | A look at the Great Falling Away as depicted in Revelation as Hail, Fire, and Water | 2017-12-31 |
| The Word | A detailed study of 'The Word' | 2017-12-17 |
| Romans 8:28 | A detailed study of Romans 8:28 in its context | 2017-11-05 |
| Deformation and Reformation | An overview of the cycles of deformations in the church and the reformations, with a focus on the Protestant Reformation | 2017-10-29 |
Ezekiel's Oddities | A study of Ezekiel's Visions of a future temple and of God traveling around | 2017-10-21 |
| Calvinism | Calvinism was one of the early products of the Protestant Reformation. It is now growing in popularity and needs to be understood | 2017-10-08 |
| 2 Samuel 22 - 23 | A detailed study of 2 Samuel 22 - 23 | 2017-10-01 |
| Psalm 90 | A study of Moses prayer at the dedication of the tabernacle | 2017-09-24 |
| Humble | A study of what it means to be humble with other people and humble with God | 2017-09-10 |
| Race / Skin Color | A study of the genetics of skin color and application to the Bible and the Christian walk | 2017-08-30 |
| Jesus Reveals Himself | A study of the way Jesus reveals himself to the Chief Priests as the Messiah and son of God | 2017-08-27 |
| Worldly Matters | A study of Mathew 23:23 and other verses such as Micah 6:8 | 2017-08-20 |
| Justice Mercy Faith | A study of Mathew 23:23 and other verses such as Micah 6:8 | 2017-08-13 |
| Preaching and Teaching | A study of how we are to preach and teach | 2017-08-06 |
| Alternative Atonement | A study of the idea that God can specify whatever he chooses to accept as the atonement for sin | 2017-07-30 |
| 2 Samuel 24 | A detailed study of 2 Samuel 24 | 2017-07-28 |
| Virgin Birth | A study of Isaiah 7:14 and whether Isaiah foretold a virgin birth for the Messiah | 2017-07-23 |
| The Jewish Wedding | Jesus uses the wedding customs of his time to describe many things. Therefore we need to understand those to understand what he says | 2017-07-16 |
| Comfort From Resurrection | Paul uses the Second Coming to comfort the church when loved ones have died - a practice we do not follow | 2017-07-09 |
| Sent Into The World | Jesus sends his disciples out into the world and warns them about what it will be like | 2017-07-02 |
| 2 Samuel 6 | A detailed study of David's failed and successful attempts to bring the Ark to Jerusalem and the separation from Michal | 2017-06-21 |
| Salvation By Works | A look at the concept of Salvation by Works | 2017-06-04 |
| Shavu'ot Weeks | A look at the feast of Shavu'ot, which became Pentecost, and especially the Weeks aspect of it | 2017-05-28 |
| In The World | A practical look at living in the world without being in the world | 2017-05-22 |
| Denominations | A look at the beliefs of different Christian denominations | 2017-05-21 |
| Ruth Background | A detailed look at the redeemers in Ruth's life | 2017-05-14 |
| The Gospel | The Gospel | 2017-05-07 |
| Church Music | A study of the music at SVCC | 2017-04-30 |
| Got Saved | Analyzing the idea that someone can 'get saved' | 2017-04-29 |
| Sacrifices And Offerings | Understanding all the Jewish sacrifices and their purposes | 2017-04-02 |
| Haman And Mordecai | A comparison study of Haman and Mordecai | 2017-03-12 |
| Honor Your Mother | A study on the Cana Wedding, where Jesus turned water to wine | 2017-03-05 |
| Intentional | A thorough look at intentional and unintentional sin | 2017-03-19 |
Marriage, Divorce, and Adultery | A detailed study of Marriage, Divorce, and Adultery | 2017-03-13 |
| Why We Lie 2 | A study on lying, why, how, why we shouldn't, and how to stop | 2017-02-19 |
Genesis Of The Ten Commandments | The travels of the Ten Commandments from the mouth of God to the Ark of the Covenant | 2017-02-12 |
| Knowledge Of Good And Evil | What was the knowledge of Good and Evil that Adam and Eve received | 2017-02-05 |
| The Weak In Faith | How we are to handle the weak in faith | 2017-01-29 |
Tough Questions | Tough questions for Christians | 2017-01-22 |
| Not My People | The meaning of God's many references to Israel as 'not my people' | 2017-01-15 |
Ten Commandments | An in-depth study of the Ten Commandments | 2017-01-15 |
Ten Commandments - 4th | The 4th commandment of the Ten Commandments. The study looks at the history of the Sabbath to our time and also compiles the different theories about why the Sabbath was cancelled or became something different. | 2017-01-15 |
| Man-Made Holy Days | A look at Holy Days created by men | 2017-01-02 |
| Orientation of the Heart | What really matters to God is how your heart is oriented, whether it points toward him or in any other direction | 2017-01-01 |
2016 | ||
| Jesus' Birth | Jesus Birth | 2016-12-25 |
| Favoritism | Favoritism and its consequences | 2016-12-18 |
| Greek | The Greek language and the Bible | 2016-11-27 |
| Sabbath | Sabbath | 2016-11-26 |
| Pope Francis | Pope Francis. Who is he and what is he doing? | 2016-11-25 |
| Sacrificing Isaac | A deeper look at God's command to Abraham to sacrifice Isaac | 2016-11-20 |
| Satan | Who is Satan? Where did he come from? What will be his destiny | 2016-11-13 |
| Noah | A deeper look at Noah and New Testament references to him | 2016-11-06 |
| False Prophet | Is the current Pope (Francis) the False Prophet of Bible Prophecy? | 2016-10-30 |
| Why Study Bible Prophecy | What do we gain by studying prophecy? | 2016-10-09 |
Fall Feasts 2 | God describes the feasts of his appointed days in Leviticus 23. In this study, we look at the feasts that come in the fall. We see that Christians came to understand that all the feasts were prophetic. The Spring Feasts spoke of the major events in Jesus' First Coming and the Fall Feasts speak of the major events of his future Second Coming. | 2016-10-02 |
| Daniel 12 | Daniel 12 | 2016-09-28 |
| Tying Daniel Together | Having studied each chapter of Daniel, we now tie together the prophecies we've learned and fit that into the Bible | 2016-09-25 |
A Loving God | A technical study of the nature of God that comes from asking how God can be self-sufficient and also create people he loves. | 2016-09-25 |
| Ash, Lent, and Easter | The origins of Ash Wednesday, Lent, Easter, and Resurrection Sunday | 2016-09-04 |
| Daniel 10 | Daniel 10 | 2016-08-31 |
| Daniel 9 | With the Medo-Persian Empire conquering the Babylonian Empire, Daniel considers the future and realizes the time in Babylon is almost over | 2016-08-24 |
| Adding and Taking Away | Warnings in the Bible not to add to or take away from it | 2016-08-21 |
| Pearly Gates | Looking at the biblical foundation for idea that Heaven has pearly gates | 2016-08-14 |
| Submission | The requirement that Christians submit to the authorities in this world | 2016-07-31 |
| Cursing The Blessed | A study of Balak's efforts to get Balaam to curse Israel | 2016-07-24 |
| Moses At Meribah | A look at Moses' sin that would keep him from entering the promised land | 2016-07-17 |
| Statue Propecy - Focused | A focused look at the prophecy in Daniel's statue dream | 2016-07-03 |
| Second Coming In Thessalonians | A look at the Second Coming as described in 1st and 2nd Thessalonians | 2016-06-26 |
| Marriage Supper of the Lamb | The wedding feast as a model for the marriage supper of the lamb at the Second Coming | 2016-06-05 |
| ContendingForTheFaith | Two false teachings from FaceBook and the need for us to be vigilant | 2016-05-29 |
Order of Things | Interactive puzzles based on correctly choosing the order of the items in a list of items from the Bible. | 2016-05-15 |
| Habakkuk's Questions | Habakkuk's vision of questions for God | 2016-05-04 |
| Maror - Bitter | What it means to be bitter (Hebrew: maror) and how to combat it | 2016-05-01 |
| The Reformation | Martin Luther and the two people before him who began the Reformation | 2016-04-24 |
| Holy Common Clean Unclean | What separates Holy from Common and Clean from Unclean | 2016-04-17 |
| Being Good Enough | How the world wants the standard to be 'being good enough' | 2016-04-03 |
| Choosing Their Lamb | How the rules for the Feast of Passover were a prophecy saying the people would choose Jesus | 2016-03-27 |
| Traditions | The good and bad of church traditions | 2016-03-20 |
| Do Justice | God requires that we 'do justice' in everything we do. What does that mean and how do we do it? | 2016-02-28 |
| EverydayLifeInJesusTime | A description of the many facets of people's lives in Jesus' time | 2016-02-23 |
| Precious Stones - Priests | A look at how we are both precious stones and priests | 2016-02-21 |
Secrets of the Kingdom | A study of Matthew 13, where Jesus provides a set of parables that reveal the secrets of the Kingdom of Heaven. | 2016-02-14 |
| The Sword | A look at whether Christianity is more violent than Islam based on the use of the words 'The sword' in the Bible | 2016-02-07 |
| TurningAway | A look at some Christian names, mostly musicians, who turned away from God in 2015 | 2016-01-10 |
2015 | ||
Isaiah 2 | A study of Isaiah 2 which looks toward the Millennium and the changes that will occur. It also serves as a class in the ways chiasms can be used. | 2015-12-27 |
| A Prophet Like Me | What Moses meant when he said 'A prophet like me' and where we see that in the New Testament | 2015-12-06 |
| 1 Timothy 6 | A study of 1 Timothy 6 | 2015-11-08 |
| Jonah 3 | A study of Jonah 3 | 2015-10-28 |
When the Wall Came Down | What happened when the wall between Jew and Gentile came down | 2015-09-06 |
| Moving Paradise | An analysis of the main theory running contrary to the correct understanding of the afterlife | 2015-09-03 |
| Heaven and Hell | A detailed study of the idea that we go to Heaven or Hell when we die | 2015-09-03 |
| The Coming Shemitah | A study of Jonathan Cahn's book the Mystery of the Shemitah | 2015-08-16 |
| Road To Emmaus | A study of the events on the Road to Emmaus | 2015-08-09 |
| All Have Sinned | All Have Sinned | 2015-08-02 |
| Rejected | Rejected | 2015-07-26 |
| Strange Fire | Aaron's sons offer strange fire to God | 2015-07-18 |
| Homosexuality and the Law | What the Bible says about homosexuality | 2015-07-11 |
| Bible Characters | A quiz based on some characters in the Bible | 2015-07-05 |
| The Words We Use | A look at the many words we use in Christianity that baffle outsiders | 2015-06-27 |
| Salvation | A look at Salvation | 2015-06-21 |
| Still Rejecting God | Even after Jerusalem was destroyed, as God said it would be, his people are still rejecting him. | 2015-05-24 |
| Testing God | What does it mean to 'test God' | 2015-04-26 |
| Clean Unclean | A look at the concepts of Clean and Unclean | 2015-04-19 |
| The Great Falling Away | A study of one of the most important events of the end time - the Great Falling Away | 2015-04-12 |
| Breakthrough | A look at what it meant to breakthrough when Uzzah touched the Ark | 2015-03-22 |
| Dry Bones | The meaning of the dry bones described by Ezekiel | 2015-03-01 |
| Elihu | A look at the words of Elihu from Job | 2015-01-25 |
| Twisting Scripture | Why and how people twist scripture | 2015-01-11 |
| Prophecies Of Messiah | A list of most Old Testament prophecies about the Messiah and how they were fulfilled | 2015-01-04 |
2014 | ||
| Warnings and Correction | A look at how God has used difficult events to warn and correct us | 2014-12-28 |
| John 3:16 | A study of the context of John 3:16 | 2014-12-14 |
| Resurrection | A look 1 Corinthians 15 and its discussion of the resurrection | 2014-11-09 |
| What Is Love | A Facebook meme about love that sounds good but is not | 2014-10-12 |
| What Can Separate Us | A look at what can really separate us from God | 2014-10-05 |
| The Nature Of God | The nature of God as proclaimed by God | 2014-09-28 |
| Fall Feasts | A look at the Fall Feasts and a little of the Spring Feasts | 2014-09-21 |
| Lacking Discernment | A look at examples of Christians showing an utter lack of discernment | 2014-08-31 |
| Keeping Our Kids In The Church | Why young people leave the church and how to keep them there | 2014-08-24 |
| Strangers in a Strange Land | A look at how we should view our existence in this world. | 2014-08-17 |
| Evolution And The Eye | The eye and the ear as amazing evidences of creation, not evolution. | 2014-07-13 |
| Perfection | A look at the requirement for perfection and when that occurs | 2014-07-06 |
| Submission | The necessity for Christians to submit to earthly authorities | 2014-06-29 |
| God Is Just | God describes how his ways are just but people say they are not | 2014-06-22 |
| Abraham | The beginning of the story of Abram / Abraham | 2014-06-08 |
| Shavu'ot | A look at the feast of Shavu'ot, which became Pentecost | 2014-06-01 |
| The Reformation Garbage Can | The beliefs and practices of the Roman Catholic Church that were thrown out during the Protestant Reformation. | 2014-05-25 |
| A Firm Foundation | How Genesis provides a firm foundation for the Bible | 2014-05-18 |
| The Arena | A study of Paul's reference to Timothy about 'the arena's' of his time, how they pull people away from the faith, and how that still occurs. | 2014-04-27 |
| For Such a Time as This | A study of Ruth | 2014-04-20 |
| Who Is Jesus | Hebrews 1-3 defines who Jesus is | 2014-04-13 |
| Things To Come | A list of major events in the Bible that are yet to occur | 2014-04-06 |
| The Works Prepared For Us To Do | Understanding the works God has prepared for us to do | 2014-03-30 |
| Understanding The Bible | Some techniques and attitudes for understanding the Bible | 2014-03-23 |
| Galatians 1-4 An Overview | Understanding what the Galatians had done that showed they had turned away from the Messiah | 2014-03-16 |
| Polycarp, Heretic Fighter | A look at the life of Polycarp, the last man known to have worked with the apostles | 2014-03-09 |
| Context | Understanding the importance of understanding the Bible in its context | 2014-03-02 |
| Intertestamental Period | A study of the events that occurred after the Old Testament but before the New Testament | 2014-02-23 |
| The Olde Songs | A look at some of the good old songs of the church | 2014-02-16 |
| Real Love Is Real Hard | The definition of love in 1 Corinthians 13 is practically impossible for us to live up to | 2014-02-09 |
| The Scissors | Two verses from Hebrews that work together like scissors to cut up bad ideas about the Sabbath | 2014-01-25 |
| God Is In Control | The stories of Old Testament people give reasons to understand that God is in control and that we can trust him | 2014-01-18 |
| Four Blood Moons | The Four Blood Moons: their probability and significance | 2014-01-05 |
2013 | ||
| Three Great Fails | Looking at three Bible characters who really missed the point and failed | 2013-12-29 |
| John The Baptist | Details about John the Baptist you never knew | 2013-12-08 |
| How Great is Our God | Through Isaiah, God describes those things that show how great he is. | 2013-11-30 |
| Unquestioning Faith | Romans 10 discusses a lack of faith that constantly questions and never believes | 2013-11-24 |
Faith and Fear | How Peter's walk on water shows the process of faith and the effect of fear on it | 2013-11-10 |
| Mercy And Law | God had always intended that the law should be dispensed with mercy | 2013-11-03 |
| Purity | Becoming and staying pure | 2013-10-27 |
| What One Person Can Do | Based on the story of Nehemia | 2013-10-20 |
| Religious Evils | Looking at the idea that religions are the source of all evil | 2013-10-13 |
| Why We Lie | Based on 'The Seven Levels of Lying' by Sarah Sumner | 2013-09-29 |
| Song Of Crucifixion | A song that describes the crucifixion - from Jesus' point of view | 2013-09-22 |
| Is This The End | Considering whether the end-time events that Jesus described are occurring in our time | 2013-09-15 |
| Best Of Parables | A collection of Jesus' best parables and their explanations | 2013-09-01 |
| Coptic Christians | The Coptic Christians = the very first group to split from the Roman Catholic Church and the only one to survive so long | 2013-08-25 |
| Assurance of Salvation | A look at the idea of assurance of salvation | 2013-08-11 |
| The Prince To Come 2 | Daniel 9 talks about a prince who is to come. He has friends. | 2013-08-04 |
| Founded Tradition | Some traditions have no Biblical foundation and could be removed. Others are Biblically founded | 2013-07-28 |
| Ante-Deluvian | Looking at the world before the flood | 2013-07-14 |
| The Spirit Removed | The Bible talks about a time when the Holy Spirit will be removed | 2013-07-07 |
| 144000 | What the Revelation says about a particular group of people - the 144,000 | 2013-06-30 |
| Marriage | What Biblical marriage should be | 2013-06-23 |
| Bible Translations | A study of Bible translations, why there are so many and how to choose a good one | 2013-06-16 |
| Gods Purpose In Miracles | What does God get from miracles that he should do them? | 2013-06-09 |
| Judging | 'Judge not lest you be judged' - what that really means | 2013-06-02 |
| The Law | God's law through history and what applies to Christians in our time | 2013-05-26 |
| Freedom From Sin | The Bible says that we are free from sin but it doesn't seem that way. | 2013-05-19 |
| Sin Personified | Sometimes the Bible speaks of sin as a creature | 2013-05-12 |
| 7 Days | A look at the 7 days of creation | 2013-04-10 |
| The Trinity in the Old Testament | A look at the references to the Trinity that are found in the Old Testament | 2013-04-07 |
| Theisms | The different levels of belief and unbelief | 2013-03-17 |
| Apostolic Succession | Checking the validity and value of the concept of apostolic succession | 2013-03-03 |
| Purim Esther | A review of the story of Esther | 2013-02-24 |
| Return Of The King | What 1st and 2nd Thessalonians say about the return of the King | 2013-02-17 |
| Prosperity Gospel | Looking at the Biblical basis for a Gospel where God blesses his people with prosperity | 2013-02-03 |
| Faith | There was never a time when salvation came by works, despite what some people teach | 2013-01-20 |
Love In The Supermarket Aisle | Practical ways to show love in the world | 2013-01-13 |
| Laying It Down | Understanding the important concept that Jesus laid his life down; no one took it from him | 2013-01-06 |
2012 | ||
Head Coverings | Many people hate things Paul said. In most cases it is because they don't understand what Paul is saying. That is true of the topic of head coverings. In this study we look carefully at what he says about that and answer questions such as why Jesus is always shown with long hair and whether Jesus wore a head covering as modern Jews do. | 2012-12-30 |
70 Weeks | A look at the 70 weeks of Daniel | 2012-12-09 |
| Abortion | What the Bible says about ending the life of the unborn | 2012-11-25 |
Worship | When we say we are going to worship God, what are we going to do that is worship | 2012-11-11 |
| Restoration In 7 Feasts | How the 7 Jewish feasts lay out God's plan for salvation | 2012-10-28 |
| Israel | A study of Romans 11 | 2012-10-21 |
| Lean Forward | The necessity for the Christian not to shrink back but to lean forward | 2012-10-14 |
| Righteousness | What it means to be righteous | 2012-10-07 |
| Hyperbole In The Bible | A look at the use of hyperbole in the Bible | 2012-09-30 |
| Practical Christianity | Putting our faith into practice | 2012-09-23 |
| Why We Die | We are so used to the idea that each of us will die, that we never ask the question, 'Why is it we must die' | 2012-09-09 |
| The Sign | A lesson to be learned about people and a sign at an airport | 2012-08-19 |
| Literally The Bible | Is the Bible literally true | 2012-08-19 |
| Stories Of Daniel | A participation exercise where the students summarize the stories from Daniel | 2012-07-22 |
| Deists Not | The claim that the founding fathers were Deists and not Christians is shown to be false | 2012-07-08 |
| Divination | A look at divination and what's behind it | 2012-06-16 |
| Icons | The worship of icons and statues | 2012-06-03 |
| Systems Of Government | A study of how Christianity fits into the world's systems of government | 2012-05-13 |
| Satan Attacks The Church | How Satan attacked the early churches | 2012-04-01 |
| Unifying World Religions | A study of a secular article about unifying the world's major religions | 2012-03-25 |
| Chrislam | A study of a Muslim variation of Christianity being taught in Muslim countries | 2012-02-26 |
| Adam | What we know about Adam | 2012-02-19 |
| Ten Commandments Recap | The spiritual side of the Ten Commandments | 2012-02-12 |
| Predestination | A look at the concept that God predetermined our destinies before we were born | 2012-02-05 |
Unseen Prophetic Fulfillment | A look at the failure to recognize prophecies in the time that they were being fulfilled | 2012-01-22 |
| Introduction To Bible Prophecy | An Introduction to Bible Prophecy | 2012-01-08 |
| Obedience | The test of your love for a king / ruler is obedience | 2012-01-01 |
2011 | ||
| The Real Jew | Misconceptions about what Jews were like | 2011-12-17 |
| Brushing Up Your Hebrew | Christians know more Hebrew words than they think but they don't know what they are or what they mean | 2011-12-04 |
| Crucifixion And The World | Paul talks about how the world views the gospel message | 2011-10-16 |
| Beasts And Heads And Horns | Making sense of some of the symbols in Revelation | 2011-10-09 |
| Where Evil Grows | John describes the sources of the evil within us | 2011-09-25 |
| Fall Feasts | Introduction to the Fall Feasts of Judaism | 2011-09-25 |
| Persecution | Examples of Christian persecution | 2011-09-11 |
| God's Economics | A look at the economic system created by God for his people | 2011-08-21 |
| 7 | A look at the uses and meaning of the number 7 in the Bible | 2011-08-14 |
| Messianic Church In Israel | A look at Messianic churches in Israel | 2011-08-07 |
| The Great Commission - Fulfilled | Has the gospel gone out to all nations and the Great Commission been fulfilled | 2011-07-31 |
| Pew Research Questionaire | Looking at a poll by Pew Research to determine the level of knowledge by Christians | 2011-07-31 |
| The Christian In Society | How does a Christian fit into a godless society? | 2011-07-10 |
| Talmud Teachings | Some teachings from the Talmud about the giving of the Ten Commandments | 2011-06-26 |
| Be Like Jesus | Paul says our model should be Jesus | 2011-06-26 |
| Statue Prophecy | Daniel's prophecy in a statue | 2011-04-24 |
Some Will Perish | Understanding that, despite what anyone may do, some people will perish | 2011-04-17 |
| Order In The Church | Paul explains how the church should be ordered | 2011-03-27 |
| Order In The Church | Paul explains how the church should be ordered | 2011-03-13 |
| Rapture | Different views about the rapture | 2011-03-06 |
| Order In The Church | Paul explains how the church should be ordered | 2011-03-06 |
And Then The End Will Come | The final signs that lead up to the Second Coming | 2011-02-27 |
Stuck In The Physical World | Some people just can't separate themselves from the world when they should be spiritual | 2011-02-13 |
| Jesus Is The Messiah | Jesus disciples slowly come to the realization that Jesus is the Messiah | 2011-02-06 |
| Isaiah Sees The Messiah | Isaiah prophesies about a coming Messiah | 2011-01-30 |
| Salvation Is From The Jews | Isaiah prophesies salvation (Jesus) will come from the Jews | 2011-01-23 |
| Blood Of The Lamb | As gory as 'the blood of the lamb' sounds, it makes sense | 2011-01-16 |
| Salvation For Israel | Isaiah speaks of a salvation that will come for Israel, who are now in Babylon | 2011-01-09 |
| Israel To Return From Babylon | Encouraging Israel with a prophecy that they would return from captivity | 2011-01-02 |
2010 | ||
| Comfort In Prophecy | Isaiah uses prophecy to comfort Israel | 2010-12-05 |
| Omniscience | Knowing everything and the pre-destination / free-choice problem that creates | 2010-11-28 |
| Old Habits | Fighting those old habits that are so hard to drop | 2010-11-07 |
| Doing It God's Way | Sometimes we know where we are going and we think we know how to get there and that keeps us from doing it God's way | 2010-10-10 |
| How To Lie Cheat And Steal | A study in ethics | 2010-09-26 |
| Denominations | A comparison of the major denominations | 2010-09-12 |
| C.S. Lewis | A study of the work of C.S. Lewis, Christian author and thinker | 2010-08-01 |
| Second Thessalonians - Closing Remarks | 2 Thessalonians 3 | 2010-07-25 |
| Worthy Of Suffering | 2 Thessalonians 1 | 2010-07-11 |
| As A Thief In The Night | 1 Thessalonians 4 and 5 | 2010-07-04 |
| The Christian Walk In Thessalonica | 1 Thessalonians 4 | 2010-06-27 |
| Good News Of Faith And Love | A study of 1 Thessalonians 2 | 2010-06-20 |
| A Ministry Without Fault Or Blame | A perfect ministry | 2010-06-13 |
| Praise For The Worthy | Everything that we do should should be worthy of praise (from God) | 2010-06-06 |
| Desiring Things Above | The focus of our desires should be on heavenly things, not on worldly things | 2010-05-16 |
| Sophistry | Looking at the idea that something can sound good and seem to make sense but isn't Biblical | 2010-05-09 |
| Are Mormons Christian | How far away from the Bible are Mormon beliefs and how close do you need to be, to be a Christian | 2010-05-02 |
| Ezekiel's Battle | The failed attack on Israel described in Ezekiel 38 and 39 | 2010-04-25 |
| The Invitation | God has sent out an invitation to a great supper. Be there | 2010-04-25 |
| The Law | Does the Old Testament law still apply to Christians | 2010-04-18 |
| The Power Of Faith With Authority | Acts of faith | 2010-04-11 |
| Sadducees | Who were the Sadducees who are mentioned in the New Testament | 2010-03-28 |
| The Lord's Prayer As He Spoke It | A look at the Lord's Prayer as he Spoke it | 2010-03-21 |
| Favoritism | James speaks strongly against playing favorites | 2010-03-14 |
| When Good Turns Bad | Cases where the leadership of the church has turned away from the truth | 2010-03-07 |
| Transfiguration | A study of all three accounts of the transfiguration of Jesus | 2010-02-21 |
| Who Am I | When Jesus asked his disciples this question | 2010-02-14 |
| Atheism | An introduction to atheistic views and reasoning | 2010-01-31 |
| Strengthened In Temptation | The temptation of Jesus | 2010-01-10 |
| Proclaimed In Baptism | The baptism of Jesus | 2010-01-03 |
2009 | ||
| Messiah's Birth Mixed Emotions | A wide range of emotions were experienced by different people on hearing of the Messiah's birth | 2009-12-27 |
| Immanuel | The birth of Jesus and the foretelling of that event | 2009-12-20 |
| Prophets Of Messiah's Birth | Isaiah prophesies a messiah born of a girl (virgin) | 2009-12-13 |
| Lineage of David | Looking at the lineage of King David down to Jesus | 2009-12-06 |
| Hope Of The Second Coming | The hope of the Christian should be in the return of the Messiah | 2009-11-29 |
| Keeping The Faith | Peter talks about how he has kept the faith and charges those after him to do the same | 2009-11-22 |
| Holiness And Purity | How to keep holy and pure | 2009-11-08 |
| Wealth | How wealth represents a danger to the Christian | 2009-11-01 |
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