Welcome to our Bible Bites page. Here you will find just a little bit from the Bible to chew on and some tools to grow on your journey with God.
Bible 101
Written By JenI am trying to read a little bit of 1 Timothy each day this week. There is one bit that keeps running though my mind. It comes from 1 Timothy 1:15-18ish and I posted it here in the Message and the emphasis is added by me, it says this:Here’s a word you can take to [...]
Written By JenI read Genesis 34-39 the other morning and Joseph has quite a story! Bottom line: GOD WAS WITH JOSEPH. God was with Joseph when he was painfully betrayed by his raging jealous brothers, when he was pleading for mercy while being sold into slavery and then brought to Potiphar, and when he was a faithful [...]
Did you know that Moses wrote the first 5 books of the Bible? Actually, God wrote them by the hand of Moses. He did this during a time when Moses was leading the Israelites through forty years of “waiting” until God was ready to take them into the promise land. Moses had the time, faith, [...]
JenGod has shown his faithfulness to all kinds of people in the Bible. God showed His faithfulness to Rahab the prostitute and her family, Peter one of his closest friends who denied him 3 times, Jonah who tried to evade him, David who had an affair and a man sentenced to death and many more. These men and [...]
AmyFor some reason I like posting writing from the book of Psalms on Sundays. The words, breathed by God into the writer (David), are true and comforting to my soul. This Psalm below speaks of confession of our sins. What if we all tried this today….taking a few minutes of private time to confess our sins before [...]
JenIt’s February, I enjoy the ‘love’ month. I have been reflecting on why I love to love. I wanted to share with you one of my inspirations to love people. There are many times when I feel praise rise up from deep with-in my soul and it is praise for the people God created. I usually [...]
Amy Jesus had many “new concepts” to present to the people he encountered during his time on earth. One of the most significant, in my humble opinion, was the idea that HE alone could provide all we needed, emotionally, physically, relationally and spiritually, for survival. Our needs, desires, and wants are always driving us toward [...]
Amy and I are reading a thought provoking book with our husbands called Love and War by John and Stasi Eldredge. I love when Scott and I read books together because it gives us a platform for conversation where we are learning the same thing but have different takes on it. It causes us to [...]
http://s0.ilike.com/play#Caedmon%27s+Call:Prepare+Ye+The+Way:646926:s28180351.8078560.946373.0.1.81%2Cstd_84af10d6d2d9ff877918ff9cf8fa532cA MIRACLE BABY His mom was Elizabeth. A women, like many today who was barren, and now, old in age. I have a few friends who I watch their heart ache and longing for a baby. I do not know their pain but I see their dreams lingering with no answer. Her husband, Zachariah, a [...]
JenFIRST Read John 11:1-45 Here is a link to the passage. http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%2011:1-45&version=MSG (I like to read in many versions, but I find the Message (a translation with modern words) easier to read, especially on line.)1. Why did Christ wait to go to his sick friend Lazarus? look at the reasons in verse 4 verse 11 [...]
Bible 101 on Prayer
Jen Peace “You will keep __________in perfect peace him/her whose mind is steadfast, because he/she trusts in you. (Help ________ to) Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD, the LORD, is the Rock eternal.” Isaiah 26:3-4 NIV
Tools
AmyHow do you read your bible? It can be daunting…right? Where to start, where to finish, Old Testament, New Testament? Front, back, middle? Front to back? Middle forward? Turn open a page and read there?Well, I’ve tried it all, but I am a person who likes structure, specifically with things that can be ambiguous without a finite starting [...]
Jen It has been a while (maybe a decade) since I have read through the Bible. I enjoy the overview, the big picture. It’s one of my resolutions this year. I usually don’t make it past January with my resolutions, but this is a desire of mine. I did a little research on Bible reading [...]
Last summer I met with a few of my friends every Monday evening at Starbucks for a book club. We all read The Hole In Our Gospel together. It is now one of my all time favorite books. It came with an Interactive Study Guide called The Hole In Our Gospel Six-Week Quest. I loved [...]
Earlier this week I was helping Maddie memorize some scripture she needed to learn for Sunday School. We were in her room, sitting on her fluffy yellow rug on the floor. It was bedtime, I was tired, and honestly, I was in the mode of, “Let’s just get these memorized and go to bed!” A couple of [...]
Written By Jen“In the reading, as we submit our lives to what we read, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but to see our stories in God’s. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.” Eugene Peterson.I so often want to share with [...]
Every other Monday night, a group of us, sometimes 8, sometimes 10, sometimes 5, gather for bible study. We named it GROW, because we meet for one main reason, to grow in our relationship with God. We do this through books written by amazing women, who challenge us in our faith, teach us new things and [...]
I just finished one of the BEST Bible study books I have done in a LONG, LONG time. This study is a great guide on how to read your Bible and actually get something out of it. It’s simple and it’s not at all stifling or stuffing a bunch of rules at you; it’s really [...]
Written By Jen I was involved with a ministry called The Navigators when I was in college. They do a great job of helping attach what we learn in the Bible to our lives, actions and relationships. This is a great tool from The Navigators on doing well in relationships. I posted it, now I [...]
