We need to learn from the centuries of experience provided by our brothers and sisters in the church and in the Bible. A Christian who has David in his bones, Jeremiah in his bloodstream, Paul in his fingertips and Christ in his heart will know how much and how little value to put on His own momentary feelings and the experience of the week. To remain willfully ignorant of Abraham wandering in the desert, the Hebrews enslaved in Egypt, David battling the Philistines, Jesus arguing with the Pharisees and Paul writing to the Corinthians is like saying, “I refuse to remember that when I kicked that black dog last week he bit my leg.” If I don’t remember it, in the next fit of anger I will kick him again and get bitten again.
Bible Study
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
If you wish to know God, you must know His word. If you wish to perceive His power, you must see how he works by His word. If you wish to know His purpose before it comes to pass, you can only discover it in His word.
Charlie H. Campbell
We’re not asking people to believe what the Bible says about God, just “because it says so.” No. We want people to believe the Bible because of the wealth of good evidence that has demonstrated the Bible to be trustworthy…hundreds of fulfilled prophecies…thousands of archaeological discoveries…numerous details in the Bible that have been corroborated by extrabiblical historical sources, and so on.
Ann Spangler
We are not called to be parrots, unquestioningly repeating whatever we learn from a favorite teacher. Instead, we are to exercise wisdom and discernment, continually asking questions, weighing answers, seeking understanding, and grounding our beliefs within the context of God’s Word and the wisdom of Christian tradition.
Gilbert Keith G. K. Chesterton
We must tell stories the way God does, stories in which a sister must float her little brother on a river with nothing but a basket between him and the crocodiles. Stories in which a king is a coward, and a shepherd boy steps forward to face the giant. Stories with fiery serpents and leviathans and sermons in whirlwinds. Stories in which murderers are blinded on donkeys and become heroes. Stories with dens of lions and fiery furnaces and lone prophets laughing at kings and priests and demons. Stories with heads on platters. Stories with courage and crosses and redemption. Stories with resurrections.
Katherine Walden
March 21, 2020
My grandmother came to know Christ in her seventies. A decade after her death, I was given her bible. I was blessed to discover the following note she wrote concerning 1 John 1:9 – “But if we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” My grandmother gave herself some sage advice. “Self, Jesus forgives you. And I forgive you too.” Perhaps, you need to follow my grandmother’s advice as well. Forgive yourself and remind yourself daily that you are a new creation through Christ Jesus. The old man is dead, long live the new creature.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Oh, to be bathed in a text of Scripture, and to let it be sucked up into your very soul, till it saturates your heart!
Smith Wigglesworth
There are four principles we need to maintain: First, read the Word of God. Second, consume the Word of God until it consumes you. Third believe the Word of God. Fourth, act on the Word.
Francis Asbury
It is plain to me the devil will let us read the word always, if we will not pray; but prayer is the sword of the Preacher, the life of the Christian, the terror of hell, and the devil’s plague.
Soren Kierkegaard
The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.