Great Bible study… Satisfying Bible study… Life-transforming Bible study… is MORE than simply listening to a Bible based lecture. It is personal engagement in the study of the Bible! It involves personal DISCOVERY!
So…
If you’re leading a Bible study and are looking for a WEEKLY STUDY GUIDE to help you lead those you teach to the DISCOVERY of what the Bible teaches and apply it to their lives…
Or if you’re simply hungry for PERSONAL PARTICIPATION in a DISCOVERY Bible Study via Zoom…
…DISCOVERY Bible Study, prepared and led by Dr. LeRoy Bartel, longtime professor of Bible at SAGU (now Nelson University) is for you!
Beginning Tuesday, August 27, Dr. Bartel will begin a new series of Bible studies entitled “YOU’VE GOT MAIL” (this will be a weekly study that will take you through all of the epistles in the Bible).
NOTE: If you have been a part of DISCOVERY Bible Study in the past and wish to continue receiving “Study Guides” and Zoom invitations there is nothing you need to do… You will continue to be included in the list serve. However, if you feel you need to discontinue participation in DISCOVERY for any reason simply e-mail me or text me your request (see e-mails and phone # above).
An appropriate (and Biblical) prayer it seems to me as we near the election season and encounter the “vitriolic” that is characteristic of politics… “Deliver me, O Lord, from evil men; preserve me from violent men, who plan evil things in their heart and stir up things continually! They make their tongue sharp as a serpent’s and under their lips is the venom of asps. Guard me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from violent men!” (From a prayer of David in Psalm 140)
I LIKE CHRISTIANS WHO EXHIBIT SOME “SPIRITUAL SPUNK” – SOME “GODLY GUSTO” – SOME “ANOINTED ATTITUDE”!!
Now I know there is a risk… It’s incredibly easy to slip out of the Spiritual and Godly into the self-serving and carnal. I’m a farm boy and we were around horses a lot… I’ll take a horse any day with a bit of “spirit” over one that you had to spur and give a whip to go anywhere. If you’ve got a good cutting horse there are times you really don’t know if the horse is “in charge” or the “rider” (in fact it’s a marvel and delight to watch one work in a herd of cattle).
I think young David, in the Goliath story, exhibited a bit of “Spiritual spunk” – “Godly gusto” – and “anointed attitude” … See what you think…
When David heard Goliath taunt the armies of Israel this was his response… “Who is this uncircumcised Philistine the he should defy the armies of the Living God?!”
After volunteering to fight this frightening, intimidating champion of the Philistines (and having his motives challenged and being “put down” by his brother, Eliab), he responded, “Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like on of them, because he has defied the armies of the Living God! The Lord who rescued me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine!”
When Goliath ridiculed David’s audacity to challenge him, “David said to the Philistine, ‘You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This day the Lord will deliver you into my hands, and I’ll strike you down and cut off your head. This very day I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds and the wild animals, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel. All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the Lord saves; for the battle is the Lord’s, and he will give all of you into our hands.’”
“As the Philistine moved closer to attack him, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet him. Reaching into his bag and taking out a stone, he slung it and struck the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell facedown on the ground. So David triumphed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone; without a sword in his hand he struck down the Philistine and killed him.” (From 1 Samuel 17 NIV)
Gotta tell you… I like that kind of spunk! I like that kind of faith! And I like the fact that David’s personal ego did not get in the way of honoring God for the victory! His overarching concern was the honor and reputation of the Lord. God give us more people with “Spiritual spunk” – “Godly gusto” and “anointed attitude”!! (I want to be that kind of person!)
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