BIBLE STUDY
SMALL GROUP BIBLE STUDY
NEW BIBLE STUDY — RISKY CREATION: This dvd study on the entire Book of GENESIS featuring Bob Russell teaching!
We'll meet in various host-homes or at church to study. Choose the
one you'd like to attend and sign up at church or by email: kevinable@rivervalleychristianchurch.com.
Sundays 8:30 AM:
at River Valley Christian Church
Teacher - Norm Able
Wednesdays 7 pm:
at the home of Don & Linda Burleigh
Teacher - Don & Linda Burleigh
Thursdays 10 am
at River Valley Christian Church
Teacher - JJim Wright
NEW WOMEN’S DVD/BIBLE STUDY — LIFE’S HEALING CHOICES
We ran this DVD/Bible study series in the fall of 2009 and it was a ministry
of healing for many with hurts, habits, and heartache. This study by Rick
Warren for is an 8-week series using a powerful teaching dvd, with followup
workbook questions that allows group discussion on the Bible verses presented.
If you need a Bible study and have private hurts that need some healing....this
Women's Bible study is for you!
The workbook is $7.
Thursday 7 pm
at Rivervalley Christian Church
Childcare will be provided by the teens at church
Ladies please sign up sign up at church or by email (and indicate your
need for childcare): kevinable@rivervalleychristianchurch.com.
Bible Reading Plans for the next 90 Days- Let's encourage each other
to make a commitment from January 1 to March 31 to read the Bible for 90
days.
"I'm excited to see what God does in and
through our church family in the next 90 days as we seek together to hear
what
God is speaking
to us individually and corporately." -- Kevin Able
One of the most important essentials in the daily life of a Christian is spending
time reading God’s Word. "If you continue in my
word . . . you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free." Jesus
(John
8:31-32 NAS)
The Bible also says in Psalm
119:105 (NIV), “Your
word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path.” However, many
Christians don’t know where to get started or how to go about this seemingly
daunting undertaking. Bible reading plans are designed to help you go about
this task in a focused and organized way. Why not enrich your faith, life,
and understanding of God’s
plan?
Between January 1 and March 31 why not try one of these plans::
Why Read The Bible?
"I'm a busy person with a lot to do. Why should I spend time reading the Bible?
I don't have time to do all I need to do as it is."
"I already believe in Jesus Christ. I've already heard the Gospel." "Why should I read the Bible?"
The following Scriptures should answer these questions.
- JOHN 8:31-32 (RSV) Jesus then said to the Jews who had
believed in him, "If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples, and
you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."
- JOSHUA 1:8 (Beck) "Don't
stop reading this book of the Law, but day and night think of what it says,
so you can be careful to do everything written in it; then you will
prosper and succeed."
- ACTS 20:32 (LB) …"And now I entrust you to God and his care and to his wonderful
words that are able to build your faith and give you all the inheritance of those
who are set apart for himself.
- MATTHEW 4:4 (NLT) … But
Jesus told him, "No! The Scriptures
say, 'People need more than bread for their life; they must feed on every word
of God.' "
- JOHN 6:63 (ICB) … It
is not the flesh that gives a person life. It is the spirit that gives life.
The words I told you are spirit, and so they give life.
- ROMANS 15:4 (CEV) … And
the Scriptures were written to teach and encourage us
by giving us hope.
- JOHN 14:23-24 (Rieu) …
Jesus replied: 'If anyone loves me he will cherish my word; my Father will
love him and we will come to him and make him our abode.
He that does not love me neglects my words. Yet the word you hear is not my
own but that of the Father who sent me.
- 2 TIMOTHY 3:16-17 (NLT) …16 All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to
teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It straightens
us out and teaches us to do what is right. 17 It is God's way of preparing us
in every way, fully equipped for every good thing God wants us to do.
- HEBREWS 4:12 (NLT) ….12
For the word of God is full of living power. It is sharper than the sharpest
knife, cutting deep into our innermost thoughts and desires.
It exposes us for what we really are.
God's Word is alive! The more you expose yourself to it, the more it will
expose itself to you. To know God better you must spend time hearing
what He has to say. The Bible is His message to you. If you want Him
to listen to what you have to say, you should also listen to what He has to
say. Although God
can also speak directly to your heart, you need to know His written Word so you
can
judge whether God is speaking to you, or the enemy is trying to deceive you.
God will not love you more because you read the Bible. It's for your benefit
-- not something required to make God love you. However, without reading the
Bible, you will not grow spiritually, and you will be more easily deceived.
Prayerfully reading the Scriptures yourself is the only real defense against
being misled.
God's Word is truth (John
17:17). Don't you want to know the truth? Why
waste your time on lesser, unreliable things?
Your spiritual life is important. You always have time for what you consider
important.
Jesus taught that God's Word is a seed (Luke 8:11). Plant the seed of God's Word in your life and you will reap blessings.
The promise of Jesus in John 8:31-32 is for you. If you continue in the
Word of God, you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free!
Only those who continue in God's Word come to the place of knowing called
faith. Faith comes by hearing the Word of God (Romans 10:17).
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