the 24/7 bible study

My friend Missy just posted a series about Bible studies.  About how she has been trained to lead them properly and how frustrating is it to sit in a study that someone else is leading and have thoughts flitting through her head like “I would be keeping this discussion on track”  But the point of [...]

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never orphaned

Just about everyone who reads my blog knows by now that my favorite Bible study leader is Beth Moore.
As I read her blog more and more I am finding that I really enjoy the insights and posts from her daughters as well.
This one in particular from Melissa (who lives here in Atlanta by the way) [...]

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heading back

okay, actually I’m already back.
The event was good.  Nothing earth shatteringly great or disastrously dangerous …or frankly anything easy to write about.
and there is something else on my mind anyway
I’m currently working on a memory verse
“Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing because to this you were called so [...]

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love me tender

I want to be more sensitive.
Now to those people who know me and know how “over-sensitive” I already am, I will submit to you that what you are labeling “over sensitive” in me right now is actually just a tendency to over-react.
What I’m talking about when I say I want to be more sensitive is [...]

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remind the people

For the next two weeks I will be dwelling in this verse:
Titus 3: 1&2
Remind the people to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready to do whatever is good, to slander no one, to be peaceable and considerate and to show true humility toward all men.

I know the things I [...]

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wake up with JOY

In his heart a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.
Proverbs 16:9
I love to plan.
*sigh*
So does God.
I think that no matter how good I am at it…..God’s plan is probably a better deal than mine.  Any day of the week.
God knows everything.  He is a much better planner than I am.  In [...]

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drifting

perhaps it has someting to do with the severe lack of sleep recently in my life.
perhaps it has to do with some highly charged situations I’m currently involved in
perhaps it is the fact that the style of the writer of the bible study I’ve been doing this summer is just not quite “getting to me”
but [...]

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self help books

I used to think Bible studies were basically Christian self-help books.
I mean once you were “right with God” why would anyone have to go to another one?
I thought it was only people who needed to know more about the Bible or to learn about God who would go to a basic bible study. And [...]

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the laying on of paws

Last night the bible study group that meets in our house was thrilled to hear the update that we are now matched with Mel & Steve and that Ginny is on the way (just 9 more weeks at most).
After sharing the details that we could and laughing a talking a while, the leader of the [...]

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Beth Moore (aka my miss beth)

up till this year I swore I would never do a “Beth Moore bible Study”
First off I thought she was just a “self help” type of writer.
Also I hated the marketing campaign. I thought it was awful (although certainly not unique) that every time you see a poster for one of her bible studies [...]

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