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Practical ways of reading the Bible

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Chris Beckingham

6 Remember your Creator before the silver cord is loosed,Or the golden bowl is broken,Or the pitcher shattered at the fountain,Or the wheel broken at the well.7 Then the dust will return to the earth as it was,And the spirit will return to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 12.6-7

Top 10 lessons from Psalm 119

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Chris Beckingham 169 Let my cry come before You, O Lord;Give me understanding according to Your word.170 Let my supplication come before You;Deliver me according to Your word.171 My lips shall utter praise,For You teach me Your statutes.172 My tongue shall speak of Your word,For all Your commandments are righteousness.173 Let Your hand become my help,For I have chosen Your precepts.174 I long for...

The Astonishing Word of scripture

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Chris Beckingham 44 Then He said to them, “These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me.” 45 And He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures. 46 Then He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the...

50 quick lessons from Psalm 119

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Chris Beckingham

12 Blessed are You, O Lord!Teach me Your statutes.13 With my lips I have declaredAll the judgments of Your mouth.14 I have rejoiced in the way of Your testimonies,As much as in all riches.15 I will meditate on Your precepts,And contemplate Your ways.16 I will delight myself in Your statutes;I will not forget Your word.

Psalm 119.12-16

Our motivation for reading the Bible

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Chris Beckingham 10 Then the brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea. When they arrived, they went into the synagogue of the Jews. 11 These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so. 12 Therefore many of them believed, and also not a few of...

How should we read the Bible?

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67 Before I was afflicted I went astray,But now I keep Your word.68 You are good, and do good;Teach me Your statutes.

Psalm 119

Christian warfare – Ephesians 6

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Geoff Marshall And sometimes we feel like him, we are tried sometimes. The Lord is trying us and testing our faith. We’re sometimes tempted, and we can go through fear. Spiritual battles that nobody knows we’re fighting, maybe some obscure thing, some sin of the past. And the devil is accusing us, and we’re going through it but, using the sWord of the spirit which is the Word of God...

Why do we trust the Word of God?

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We’re going to read from 2 Peter chapter 1 verse 12, through to chapter 2 verse 2. This word of God. Let’s just have a word of prayer. Lord, we thank you for your Word. We thank you that it is the truth. We pray Lord, that you bless the reading of your Word. We do pray also about Lynette again, pray for your Hand to heal. And we pray that you open our eyes as we hear your Word now. In...

Preach the Word!

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2 Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; 4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. 5 But you be...

He is the Mystery of Godliness – Tim Coomar

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Let’s turn to God’s word. So, we are looking at 1 Timothy chapter 3 and verses 14 to 16. Paul is writing to Timothy and he says, 14 These things I write to you, though I hope to come to you shortly; 15 but if I am delayed, I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. 16...