Category Archives: Bible Study

Topics and Themes from the Bible

What to do with Anxiety

What do we do with anxiety?   Remember my blog on Anxiety Kills Vision.

The best Bible or scripture verse is: 1 Peter 5:6-7.  So humble yourselves under the mighty power of God, and at the right time he will lift you up in honor. 7 Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you. Yes, give all the anxieties and worries to God, because He really cares for us.

In the Wuest translation, it says:  having deposited with Him once for all the whole of your worry, because to Him it is a matter of concern respecting you.

Morning Scripture Verse – Revelation Chapter 2

Our uplifting encouraging morning Bible verse is from Revelation Chapter 2.

Rev 2:4   Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love. How important to come back to the Lord as our first love. So many other competing things come in life, but we must make the Lord Jesus Christ the number one interest in our life.

Rev 2:28  I will give him the morning star. There is something special about the morning star, the first star we see in the morning when we arise early to spend time with the Lord Jesus Christ.

Morning Scripture Verse – Revelation Chapter 1

Our uplifting encouraging morning scripture verse is from Revelation Chapter 1.

Rev 1:3 Blessed is he that reads, and they that hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things written in it; for the time is near.  Scripture verse 8, I am the Alpha and the Omega, saith [the] Lord God, he who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.   This Bible verse indicates God is eternal, without beginning and without end.

Prayer or Bible Study

Which is more important, your left foot or your right foot. There may be some debate on this, but I personally prefer BOTH. So with my time, is it prayer or Bible Study or teaching or preaching or writing or coordinating? And the winner is, we need all of them. Just like my body as Paul talked about in First Corithians, we need all the members and we need all the functions in the body of Christ.

Multnomah Falls, Oregon

Multnomah Falls, Oregon

Thanksgiving and Prayer

Multnomah Falls, Oregon

Multnomah Falls, Oregon

Psalms 69:29-30
But I am poor and sorrowful;
Let Your salvation, O God, set me up on high.
30 I will praise the name of God with a song,
And will magnify Him with thanksgiving.

Columbia River, Washington, Oregon

Columbia River, Washington, Oregon

Colossians 1:3
We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,

Columbia River

Columbia River, Oregon and Washington

Life and Peace

In Romans chapter 8 we come to a great verse on life and peace. After Paul in Romans spends many chapters on God’s condemnation of sinful man, and the justification only available through what God did in Jesus, we now come to chapter eight, a chapter about living in the Spirit. No matter what man could do to rescue himself, only God’s work could do this. Man with his great desire to please God, just cannot satisfy God’s requirement. Only the work that Jesus did on the cross could satisfy what God requires.

Multnomah Falls, Oregon

Multnomah Falls, Oregon

So in Romans chapter eight we come to: Romans 8:6  For the mind set on the flesh is death; but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace. This means to walk in the Spirit by following the Lord brings peace in our life. So peace comes by walking with the Lord.

Columbia River, railroad tracks

Columbia River, railroad tracks

Theology is Locked

Our theology cannot be changed, it is based on the Bible.

Columbia River, Washington, Oregon

Columbia River, from Washington side, looking towards Oregon

So you could say our theology is locked, but methods can be changed.  Look in the four Gospels and the book of Acts how God used different methods to connect with different situations.  Jesus in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John did not use the same words or prayer in the many situations.  The Holy Spirit in the book of Acts (written by Luke) did everything in a different way, but always exalting Jesus and the Gospel.