Advanced Bible Study Course

We now move onto some Advanced Bible Studies. Here there are important subjects that a Christian needs to know in order to grow spiritually and to be able to answer to his faith. Every leader must be well trained, with a sound Biblical foundation.

This is what Hole 2 and the other Holes on the Layman’s School of Training were designed to accomplish. Every untrained leader you put into an office of ministry will cost you dearly in time to come. You can take that to the bank. It’s the Law of the Medes and the Persians. Here they will also learn what it means to be a responsible and committed disciple of Jesus.

Most importantly Hole 2 ends off with a motivational gift test, which enables each member to be slotted into their right place of ministry in the Body of Christ, directing them to be trained for their specific gifting and calling, where they’ll be most fulfilled and fruitful. Continue reading …

Basic Bible Study Course

We’ve set up each basic Bible study lesson as an introduction for Bible newbies as well as a refresher for the seasoned saint. You’ll study basic doctrines in these free Bible study online courses.

We recommend that you complete these online courses in the order they are given. Each Bible study builds a foundation for the next study. But you don’t have to complete all the studies if you feel your knowledge is adequate in a certain area of Bible doctrine.

These free basic Bible study lessons were created using the King James Version. But we have tried to make the material accessible to anybody no matter what version they use.

You may complete each basic Bible study at your convenience. You have no time limit. But we do recommend you fill out the Bible Knowledge Survey (now here for Level 1 studies!) after each lesson the same day you complete the reading. This will ensure your knowledge of the subject is fresh as you complete each survey. Continue reading …

Daily Devotional 9.17.11

The Royal Triumph

“Behold Thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass. And the multitudes cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is He that cometh in the Name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest!” (Matthew 21:5-9)

The King of Glory approached the Holy City, seated not on the richly-draped war-horse, or followed by a glittering band of soldiers, but riding on a lowly ass, and attended by a vast crowd of rustic pilgrims! He was welcomed, not by the Governor Pilate, or Caiaphas the High Priest, but by the children, the poorer folk, the blind and the lame whom He had healed. His lodging-place was the bare ground on the mount of Olives, and on one occasion, at least, He was hungry enough to seek fruit from the fig-leaf.

Yet there was a mystic power about Him before which the rabble, that filled the courts of the Temple with noise and filth, were driven forth, and which the chief priests and scribes had to acknowledge when they challenged Him as to His authority (Matthew 21:23). Continue reading …

Daily Devotional 9.16.11

Love and Liberty

“None of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord: and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live, therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s.” (Romans 14:7-8)

The key to this wonderful chapter, so full of sound judgment and sanctified common sense, is the reiterated reference which the Apostle makes to the Lord, which occurs some ten times in fourteen verses. The fact of Jesus being Lord both of the living and of those who have died, and are living on the other side of death, is the solution of the difficulty as to what the Christian should do or leave undone. Let each of us stand before the judgment-seat of Christ, or at least before the reflection of that tribunal which is mirrored in the tranquil expanse of conscience, and we shall have an unerring guide for conduct.

The question agitated in Rome was as to the observance of the seventh or first day of the week as the Christian Sabbath; and, what principle should direct the use of food–that of Leviticus, or of common use. The Apostle insists that these are not questions which affect either our personal salvation or our acceptance with God. Continue reading …

Daily Bible 9.15.11

Book of Daniel Chapter 5

(Verse 1) Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.

(Verse 2) Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.

(Verse 3) Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them.

(Verse 4) They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone. Continue reading …