A word: Dear reader, these studies are neither
"teachings" nor "doctrines". You are welcome to go through
them for anything beneficial. They are "off the cuff", if you will,
and are quickly typed and gone through once again to lessen
mistakes. They
do not reflect on my books which have had many years work expended
upon them.
You need not be a regular Bible
reader, though my
underlying purpose is to motivate you to become one even as the Lord
gains your
attention in emphasizing something to you. If you want to get
into the
Bible more (and not just into "specialized" scriptures) then here is
your chance and I do all of the work for you verse by verse.
Essentially you
will be looking over my shoulder as I study for myself (and then I add
some of my
studies...as the Lord leads...to this list after Barbara has proof read
them).
I do not take requests, but many of the topics below will interest you,
and in
going through a passage with me you will catch on to my
process. My years
of study have resulted in knowledge and you will gain from that, but
your
primary purpose will be to see if the Lord has something for you, even
in our
troubling times.
Moreover, these studies usually will not have a main theme. Often
for my
personal studies I simply open the Bible at random. Sometimes I find
something
interesting and the usual process is to proceed verse by
verse. Sometimes
it leads to a study which I place in the list below. Bible verses often do
not explain the verse preceding them and sometimes do not
explain the
verses following; therefore, if a little treasure is
discovered then I
may comment on it even if it is not
necessarily in keeping
with the main thought of the passage.
Therefore, the way to read along
is simply to take in verse
by verse and think about each, and then perhaps think about
what I might
have said (or not...agreement with me is not essential) and
then let these
things gather in your brain like marbles. When you are through, you can
disregard the marbles or allow them to rattle around for awhile...and
hopefully
you might be spurred on to do more marble collecting on your own.
Nevertheless,
know that the Great Helper is the One who honors His child as
the child
pokes through and around in the Precious Word.
I do not have the time to both study, do
my other work, and
at the same time make these studies clear, concise, and
organized into a teaching
upon a particular subject so that the reader can then completely wrap
his mind
around it. These studies are not meant to create
mental or doctrinal concepts. They are
for storing
away God's words in the innerman so that later He might bring them up
for His purpose
in you and in me. I do what I do because I love my Bible, and even more
I
love the Author of my Bible.
These studies can be read on their own
pages or downloaded
as .pdf files. In either case they can be printed
for studying
later and sharing with others. Indeed, just lately a pastor of several
home
churches in Kenya has made contact with me and is using them as study
materials
in the church groups.
Also you can give feedback by email (see above).
You can go to our statistics
page to see how we are doing. We have been on the
Internet about a year and a half and more than half of our visitors each month are bookmarking one
or more pages. As you join Barbara and me you are part of
our
growing friends in the Lord and we hope to encourage Biblical
faith amid
the brethren. You can see the countries of the visitors each month who come to the
site
and you see what they are reading and downloading.
Our website is on the first or second pages of
many Bible-topic
searches in Google...which in turn continues to grow our
number of
visitors by means of browser searches. Nevertheless, about 70% of our
visitors
arrive by way of having our website address passed on to them by
friends, or
they have already visited us and bookmarked pages and returned. We
trust that many of your favorite websites will recognize us and include
links
to us on those sites.
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These are free printable Bible studies by C. Ronald Johnson at Christian Wilderness Press