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Reading Room:  a bible study *update study aug. 25  |
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Txfarmgal
True Blue Farmgirl
585 Posts
AK
USA
585 Posts |
 Posted - Jul 10 2008 : 12:00:10 PM
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we don't have a study at our church over the summer and I really miss it. I can do it alone but it's nice to have someone to talk stuff over with. I have a bible that has studies in it that I could copy off or I have alot of studies that I bet you all have copies of too. I just thought it would be fun to do a study with others. Let me know. Thanks.
AngiKay
For he is faithful that promised. Hebrews 10:23
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Edited by - Txfarmgal on Aug 25 2008 4:25:01 PM |
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Ga Girl
True Blue Farmgirl
2355 Posts
Karen
Meansville
Ga.
USA
2355 Posts |
Posted - Jul 10 2008 : 12:28:49 PM
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Count me in Angi, I'd love to do one. Karen
Create in me a pure heart,O God and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Psalms 51:10 http://farmgirlingastyle.blogspot.com/ |
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willowtreecreek
True Blue Farmgirl
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Julie
Russell
AR
USA
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melanie47601
True Blue Farmgirl
1949 Posts
Melanie
Boonville
IN
USA
1949 Posts |
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britchickny
True Blue Farmgirl
1048 Posts
Angie
Port Orange
Florida
1048 Posts |
Posted - Jul 10 2008 : 5:05:29 PM
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I really struggle to do a study by myself so I think this would help me a lot to do with others. Please count me in!
Angie
"Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance" JUDE 1:2 |
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Txfarmgal
True Blue Farmgirl
585 Posts
AK
USA
585 Posts |
Posted - Jul 10 2008 : 5:16:43 PM
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ok sounds good. So instead of going out and everyone getting a book in these economic times. I will post one out of my bible and we can read it and talk about what we think and how it moves us. Let's do it for a week and talk about it and then the next week we will do another one. Does that sound ok? Can we do it in a post, is that ok? I will look one up and post it in a bit and we will do it from Thurs. to Thursday and then whoever wants to join in can and since we are not doing a book study anyone can join in at any time.
AngiKay
For he is faithful that promised. Hebrews 10:23
check out Texas 4H! http://texas4-h.tamu.edu/ |
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britchickny
True Blue Farmgirl
1048 Posts
Angie
Port Orange
Florida
1048 Posts |
Posted - Jul 10 2008 : 5:26:16 PM
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Thanks AngiKay sounds great!
"Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance" JUDE 1:2 |
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Ga Girl
True Blue Farmgirl
2355 Posts
Karen
Meansville
Ga.
USA
2355 Posts |
Posted - Jul 10 2008 : 5:34:26 PM
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sounds good to me! Angi thanks for doing this I appreciate it, this will help me stay motivated. Karen
Create in me a pure heart,O God and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Psalms 51:10 http://farmgirlingastyle.blogspot.com/ |
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melanie47601
True Blue Farmgirl
1949 Posts
Melanie
Boonville
IN
USA
1949 Posts |
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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
6066 Posts
Jeannie
Florida
USA
6066 Posts |
Posted - Jul 10 2008 : 5:55:30 PM
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I would like to join in too. I am missing a bible study right now.
Farmgirl Sister # 31
www.blueskyjeannie.blogspot.com
Psalm 51: 10-13 |
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Txfarmgal
True Blue Farmgirl
585 Posts
AK
USA
585 Posts |
Posted - Jul 10 2008 : 6:01:19 PM
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Verse for the week: 2 Corinthians 10:14 Passage for the week 2 Corinthians 10: 12-18 Author: Linda Ching Siedge
Just Right!
"Hey, it fits good!" said 5 yr. old Geoffrey from inside the floppy tent of his older brother's sweatshirt. When he heard me laugh, Geoffrey poked his head out like a turtle and said, "I'm NOT too little! " Then he stormed upstairs and slammed the door. Later, I peeked in to find both boys sprawled on the bed. "Your're big enough, " Tim was saying. "Bigger than the babies next door. Your're just right for 5 yrs. old. I was struck by Tim's answer: Your' re just right......... For the last year, I had tried to model myself after a woman I admired: a well-known Christian church woman, mother and wife. How did she integrate God so efforlessly into her busy life? With a simple phrase, she turned ordinary events into unforgettable celbrations of God's love. I , on the other hand, was always scrambling to pull together a church school lesson a half hour before church. It took me some time to see it, but gradually it dawned on me that growing spiritually is not climbing to perfection; it's doing what you do with genuine devotion. Looking back, I hadn't even come close to emulating the woman I admired. I wasn't her size! Nevertheless I had grown in simple and essitial areas; reading the bible regularly, enjoying teaching at church, praying often and walking closer to him. Somtiems the desire to grow makes us feel "too little" when in reality we are just the right size for now- and always good enough in God's eyes.
Additional Scripture Reading: Eph. 2:8-10 and 2 Thes. 1: 3-4
So how does this relate to you? Do you feel Just Right, or do you try to immulate someone else who is not your size? (not literally) How do you feel God wants you to grow?
AngiKay
For he is faithful that promised. Hebrews 10:23
check out Texas 4H! http://texas4-h.tamu.edu/ |
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Txfarmgal
True Blue Farmgirl
585 Posts
AK
USA
585 Posts |
Posted - Jul 10 2008 : 6:05:54 PM
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I have not always felt Just right, and sometimes I struggle with this more than other times. Instead of turning to the Lord and being at peace with who he made me to be sometimes I do struggle with why can't I be more like so and so. This lesson teaches me to be Just Right in who God made me to be. I am the princess to a king. He knew how I would be even before I was born and he made me in his image and knows how he wants me to be. I should take lessons from him and noone else in how he wants me to grow.
AngiKay
For he is faithful that promised. Hebrews 10:23
check out Texas 4H! http://texas4-h.tamu.edu/ |
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Caron
True Blue Farmgirl
535 Posts
Caron
Orange
Texas
USA
535 Posts |
Posted - Jul 10 2008 : 6:36:52 PM
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I learned a few years back that if I emulate anyone other that Christ, I will be disappointed. I tried so hard to be like this lady or that lady and finally I accepted that I cannot be them, I must be me. And if I keep my eyes on Jesus, keep my heart devoted to Him, I'm o.k.!
Caron
"Praise God from whom all blessings flow"
Farmgirl Sister #254 |
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Ga Girl
True Blue Farmgirl
2355 Posts
Karen
Meansville
Ga.
USA
2355 Posts |
Posted - Jul 10 2008 : 7:16:06 PM
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I quit trying to be like other people back in high school. So that has never bothered me. But what I can take from the lesson is I dont have to be perfect to grow spirtually. I also have another confession, I instead of trying to act like others Im always worried about what they think about me. I see from this lesson Im always good enough in God's eyes.
Karen
Create in me a pure heart,O God and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Psalms 51:10 http://farmgirlingastyle.blogspot.com/ |
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melanie47601
True Blue Farmgirl
1949 Posts
Melanie
Boonville
IN
USA
1949 Posts |
Posted - Jul 10 2008 : 8:21:03 PM
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I find myself wanting to have some of the same qualities as some of the others around me. I think my hang up is I have always strived for perfection. I know that I will never be perfect. I am learning that I can not solve any of my problems. I have learned that if I put my faith in the Lord, He makes everything better. Everything has become so much simpler since I realized that I am not and will not be Super Woman. I am just me and that's ok.
Melanie
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart." Helen Keller
http://wheelsarealwaysturning.blogspot.com/
My shop is finally up and running.. http://www.brokenin.ecrater.com/ |
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mellaisbella
True Blue Farmgirl
1862 Posts
melanie
living on Anne of Green
Gables land
Canada
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Posted - Jul 11 2008 : 05:50:40 AM
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oh AngiKay,
This is so very perfect and what great timing. I will so very much enjoy doing this bible study with all of you. Thanks for starting this!
"learn to watch snails" SARK |
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Leezard
True Blue Farmgirl
950 Posts
Elizabeth
Novi
MI
USA
950 Posts |
Posted - Jul 11 2008 : 07:26:34 AM
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I don't often feel like I need to emmulate anyone else but I do sometimes see people around me in church that I would like to be like one day. I see their faithfulness, their compassion, their passion and it tends to drive me to be a better person in Christ. There are times when I feel like I'm not quite enough for God, like I should be better or more "spiritual" but in the end I am certain that God loves me just as I am as long as I'm trying and still growing.
I read the passage for the week in The Message and really liked the end..."It's what God says about you that makes the difference."
http://ruby--slippers.blogspot.com/
www.leezard.etsy.com |
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britchickny
True Blue Farmgirl
1048 Posts
Angie
Port Orange
Florida
1048 Posts |
Posted - Jul 13 2008 : 03:44:16 AM
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I do tend to become dissatisfied with myself when I compare myself to others. I have trouble differentiating between being inspired or motivated by someone else and envying them. I have to remember that I was created by a God who made each and every one of us uniquely different and to want to be like some one else really is going against his plan for me to be, well...me!
So, I can be blessed by those around me, learn from them, be inspired by them. But not want to be just like them!
(Thanks for listening to me rambling  )
"Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance" JUDE 1:2 |
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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
6066 Posts
Jeannie
Florida
USA
6066 Posts |
Posted - Jul 13 2008 : 6:23:33 PM
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Sometimes I look back at 59 years of living and feel I will never grow to the place I aspire to be in my faith, or be the person God knows I could be. It is frustrating sometimes, and it seems other around me, even young folks, have a much more confident walk on God's path. But I recently wrote an article for our church newsletter, and it came spilling out of that article, as I wrote, that one of the dichotomies of a walk in faith is that it is in looking out towards others and their needs that we grow. We become "just right" when we look beyond ourselves, and we begin to "fit" as we concentrate on others and helping them fit. What do you all think?
Farmgirl Sister # 31
www.blueskyjeannie.blogspot.com
Psalm 51: 10-13 |
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KellyA
True Blue Farmgirl
237 Posts
Kelly
Johnsonville
NY
USA
237 Posts |
Posted - Jul 15 2008 : 1:46:53 PM
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My walk seems to be in stutters and starts...my best growing is definitely when I focus on others and what I learn from them. I think my best growing was as leader of the youth group in my church...I am humbled today by what I see the youngsters (now adults!) accomplishing today!
I never do better in my bible study than when it is my turn to prepare a lesson...the care and the preparation I put into it far outpaced what I scrounged up for someone else's lesson...so I agree, Jeannie, that our "fit" is best when we give rather than receive.
Kelly
When a cookbook is in hand, life is good! |
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julia hayes
True Blue Farmgirl
1132 Posts
julia
medical lake
wa
USA
1132 Posts |
Posted - Jul 15 2008 : 4:17:37 PM
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Wow, this is fascinating stuff. I am not a Christian and I have very little understanding of the Bible. I've tried to read it many times over the years. The Old Testament (yawn) is very difficult and uninspiring to me although I'm in a very different place in my life now. Perhaps it is time I try again. I won't be able to help myself from taking an anthropological point of view though. The New Testament is quite wonderful and the thing I appreciate most is the number of layers the many teachings hold. I certainly don't want to intrude here but I am fascinated to read your processes. Really wonderful! ~julia
being simple to simply be
Farmgirl #30
www.julia42.etsy.com |
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britchickny
True Blue Farmgirl
1048 Posts
Angie
Port Orange
Florida
1048 Posts |
Posted - Jul 16 2008 : 03:02:20 AM
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Julia, jump right in!
The Bible can be a bit overwhelming to read 'as a book', that's why there are so many translations. The New Testament is a good place to start.I like your comment on the 'layers', yes, you can dig & dig and make new discoveries! That's why I enjoy bible studies with other people because we could all be 'digging' in the same spot and each come up with something unique to share!
Do you own a bible? Just curious, what translation is it?
Angie
"Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance" JUDE 1:2 |
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melanie47601
True Blue Farmgirl
1949 Posts
Melanie
Boonville
IN
USA
1949 Posts |
Posted - Jul 16 2008 : 07:40:45 AM
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Julia, I know just what you mean. There was a time I understood absolutely nothing in the Bible. I found it the most difficult and boring book I had ever read. But then I came to question if my church was teaching the Bible in truth. I began looking into other churches and what they taught about God's Word. Sure I came up with oodles of teachings that contradicted each other. But it put me so much closer to God's Word that I have been reading the Bible more and more and understanding what I read. I now find it fascinating.
A Bible study is a great place to start! I'm with Angie, Jump on in here!!
Melanie
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart. Helen Keller "http://wheelsarealwaysturning.blogspot.com/ ~shop~ http://www.brokenin.ecrater.com/ |
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julia hayes
True Blue Farmgirl
1132 Posts
julia
medical lake
wa
USA
1132 Posts |
Posted - Jul 16 2008 : 08:00:05 AM
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Good Morning Ladies! Thank you for your encouragement! So much fun! I am the proud owner of several bibles. The open version, Gideon version, King James, Catholic edition and so forth. I like to think of myself as a sort of religious junkie, quite frankly! If I had to do it all over again, I would have studied Theology, Anthropology and World Religion. Hey, I still may someday! It's basically what I'm doing on my own now. I am a collector of religious books and I am currently studying Hinduism. Amazingly beautiful stuff! The many channels to God and the many faces of God...quite extradordinary to consider...So there's a little more about me....Looking forward to reading more! Many smiles and blessings, ~julia
being simple to simply be
Farmgirl #30
www.julia42.etsy.com |
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britchickny
True Blue Farmgirl
1048 Posts
Angie
Port Orange
Florida
1048 Posts |
Posted - Jul 16 2008 : 3:41:23 PM
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Hey Julia, try an NIV or even the Amplified. Really easy to read. it is nice to have different versions to compare and you might get more out of one of these translations.
Angie
"Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance" JUDE 1:2 |
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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
6066 Posts
Jeannie
Florida
USA
6066 Posts |
Posted - Jul 16 2008 : 6:21:20 PM
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The bibles I enjoy most, and I have many different translations, are my study/reference bibles. one is an NASB translation, but I also have an NIV too. Anyway, as you read chapters and verses, below are very helpful explanations......telling you about the meaning of the verses in context. This has really taught me a lot!!! I could read the bible all day long and not understand all the meaning that is behind it....but my study bible really helped a lot!!!!!
Farmgirl Sister # 31
www.blueskyjeannie.blogspot.com
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Edited by - jpbluesky on Jul 16 2008 6:23:30 PM |
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