Blessed & Bearded's Biblical Blog

  Introduction:       Thank you guys for having me; I definitely really appreciate it! A quick word about me and my teaching style: I've been a Christian for about 9 years. I was saved through Brian "Head" Welch's testimony; he's the bass guitarist for Korn if that means anything to y'all. And I've taught off and on for about 8 years. Basically, my teaching method is to just constantly discuss and ask the "why?" questions so that we always get to the heart of the topic and the biblical text. And that's what we're gonna do here tonight; I'll open us in prayer and then we're gonna first define what is stress and anxiety and then look at how to handle it as Christians. Pray Lesson:     So let's start defining our terms for this evening:      1 ) How would y'all define stress and anxiety? And would anyone like to give an example of it in your own life?     So our  dictionary definition of stress  is "distress in...

A question that has been rolling around my mind lately is how to advance, or grow, in the Christian life. And that's exactly the question that we'll be answering today. Before we ask how to grow, we must ask what and why we grow in the Christain life. So here's my first question to you all: in your own words, what does it mean to grow as a Christian? You can phrase it a number of different ways: To grow as a Christian is to become, in everyday life, all that you are in God-holy, blameless, loving, gracious, merciful, etc. To grow as a Christian is to become more like Christ. To grow as a Christian is to become increasingly more obedient and submissive to all the teachings and commands of Scripture. Or, to grow as a Christian is to increase in the godly nature that God gave us when He regenerated us; (when He gave us new birth) (John 3:3). And you all can pick whatever definition that you prefer I just like to try and define things is manners that I can unders...

For March I wanted to do a series of various evergreen topics of the faith. Today we will be beginning this series with one of the most evergreen topics possible; that being our devotions. Today we will look at the RANSOM Bible study method. As well as a brief Church history lesson. But before that, we need to establish what it is that we're studying and why we study it. First, what are we studying? The Bible. In your own words, what is the Bible? The Bible is from God (literally God-breathed) to show and tell us the character, nature, requirements, and the actions of God and the proper response of man to that showing and telling of God. (For a fuller understanding of the Bible and how it came to be please watch the Bible Project's video on the matter). Let's see how the Bible defines itself. Turn to 2 Timothy 3:16-4:3 . Based on these verses, how does the Bible define itself? Paul says that all Scripture, both Old and New Testament, is breathed out by God. It is from...

It’s rather providential that we should need to have a lesson on evangelism. Since preaching at Fairview I’ve been thinking about what I want to do next time I’m in there pulpit and I believe this is exactly what I want to do; in fact, I intend to make this lesson into my next sermon. I am sorry that I did not adequately teach you all this already but I am grateful that we have found a crack in our armor. Here forward, all the leaders of this bible study will make it a point to diversify our studies in the spiritual disciplines when the text allows for it. This is will be a bit different from most of my lessons; it will be (mostly) brief and non-exhaustive and it will be immediately practical. So first things first: How would you define “evangelism”? What is it? You can define it as: A speaking of Jesus because we love Him “Speaking to anyone, anywhere the Gospel”-John Piper. Or, my definition: honestly, humbly and holy telling others about the person and work of Jesus Christ an...