Week 5

Nehemiah 8:2-3“… Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly, which was made up of men and women and all who were able to understand. He read it aloud…”Romans 10:17“Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ.” God is the Great Harvester – plowing fields, sowing seed, and harvesting men and women into His kingdom. In His sovere...

1 Peter 2:2-3 (New International Version)“Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.”1 Peter 2:2-3 (New King James Version)“as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby, if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious.” Do you remember your first meal? I’ll bet...

Hebrews 5:12-14“In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food! Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.” ...

Acts 8:26-40Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Go south to the road—the desert road—that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, an important official in charge of all the treasury of the Kandake (which means “queen of the Ethiopians”). This man had gone to Jerusalem to worship, and on his way home was sitting in his chariot reading t...

Acts 8:26-40Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Go south to the road—the desert road—that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, an important official in charge of all the treasury of the Kandake (which means “queen of the Ethiopians”). This man had gone to Jerusalem to worship, and on his way home was sitting in his chariot reading t...

John 5:39-40“You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life.” In John 5:39-40 we find Jesus clearly pointing out the hypocrisy of religious elite. They were leaders who knew the Word of God backwards and forwards yet had TOTALLY missed the PURPOSE for which the ...

For those of you who like charts and maps, today is your day! Below is a “flyover” vision of the Bible at 36,000 feet. Notice the timeline above Abraham’s name begins at 2000 B.C., and the New Testament timeline ends in less than 100 years after Christ’s birth (around 90 A.D.). For those of you who are NOT chart folks, there’s more below. If someone asked you what is the theme of the Bible, how wo...