Many people use word studies in Bible study, but there are many pitfalls in the process, especially if you don’t know the original languages. The key is context. Always look at a word in its context. Don’t try to force the results of a word study on the particular passage you’re reading.
This video by Energion Publications author Ben Baxter explains some of these issues.
One of the key elements of participatory Bible study is that everyone participates in the study, and everybody participates in living that study. The approach is intended to draw more people into action in your church or community and to help them continue to learn new things. Repetitive Too much Christian education is a repetitive…
Allan Bevere talks about why he wrote the book Colossians & Philemon: A Participatory Study Guide.
Dr. Bruce Epperly, author of the Participatory Study Series volume on Philippians, is posting a series of videos on the book, and we’ll be posting these here. To start, however, we’re going to re-post his video, The Message of Philippians.
A 6-Session Participatory Journey through the Ash Heap This guide is designed to be used with the books With Friends Like These …: Job’s Friends and Religious Foolishness by Dr. Larry Dixon and Finding God in Suffering: A Journey with Job by Dr. Bruce Epperly, which have different perspectives, but some converging conclusions about ministry…
If you have never thought of characters having shapes, such as triangles, polygons, or circles, read on! This Bible study strategy is based on Dr. Dolly Berthelot’s SELFSHAPES™. More on that below. Studying Bible stories is, at root, very much like studying other stories. Christians reading scripture have the additional sense that what they are…
I recently added Understanding the Bible – With and Without Inerrancy to the Energion Publications YouTube channel, and I believe this can be helpful to people in their Bible study. I am the interviewer for this video, and am talking with two very good friends, Alden Thompson, who was my undergraduate advisor, and Elgin Hushbeck,…
