by Dennis Stevenson | Mar 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
Hi ! I hope you are doing well in these pandemic days. I’m getting used to worshiping on video, working from home and washing my hands A LOT. It’s not how I expected to spend my spring. But its what God has ordained. I am learning to take the good with...
by Dennis Stevenson | Mar 28, 2020 | Uncategorized
Congratulations, we’ve finally finished reviewing the first of 66 books! At this rate, it’s going to take 200 installments to understand the Bible. Fortunately, we’re going to pick up the pace. A lot. In this session, we’ll consider a total of...
by Dennis Stevenson | Mar 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
In just a very short time, a lot has happened in the Bible. The first three chapters of Genesis are loaded with events that set up everything else that follows for the rest of the Bible. God has been established as the “Good Guy” of the story. He created...
by Dennis Stevenson | Mar 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
Today we get to see how God reacts after Adam chooses to eat of the forbidden fruit. Is all lost? How will God make good on the promise of the son of woman to bruise the serpent’s head? Before we jump into this segment, I have a few housekeeping things. First,...
by Dennis Stevenson | Feb 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
If we want to follow the story of the Bible, we need to take a moment and become familiar with the characters we’ll be following. In the first 3 chapters of Genesis, we are introduced to the protagonists and antagonists as well as the fundamental conflict...
by Dennis Stevenson | Feb 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
If you wonder how the different parts of the Bible work together to tell a single integrated story, I’m sharing a study I did in 2014 that explains exactly how the Bible works. If you missed the first lesson, I’ve created a page on my website where all the...
by Dennis Stevenson | Feb 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
It seems that a lot of people want to know more about the Bible. I’ve gotten emails all week long from folks sharing their level of knowledge of the Bible as a whole. Even if they knew a little, they wanted to know more. So as promised, here is the first...
by Dennis Stevenson | Feb 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
We cannot separate the Bible from God. In some kind of objective sense that I don’t know I can really put effectively into words, God is separate from the Bible. He existed before the Bible was written. Through the Holy Spirit, He is the author of the...
by Dennis Stevenson | Feb 2, 2020 | Uncategorized
But, that’s what I believe about the Bible. While it’s a volume of different works, they all hang together to tell a single integrated story. That’s because while 39 individuals held the pen (quill?), one Author guided them all. Back in 2014, I led...
by Dennis Stevenson | Jan 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
One of my goals for this year is to write a devotional based on great hymns of the faith. Every morning I look at a new hymn and write a few words, pulling out the spiritual truth that lies in these great lyrics. I was not prepared for Alas, and Did My Savior Bleed....
by Dennis Stevenson | Dec 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
This year has flown by and now it’s time to celebrate the nativity again. I enjoy this for a new reason this year. My daughters have come home from college and the house if full again. I never thought that I would come to this, but here I am! This year our big...
by Dennis Stevenson | Nov 28, 2019 | Uncategorized
Later today we’re going over to family for a big Thanksgiving meal. I have a lot to be thankful for. But I’ve got some things I’m disappointed about too. Can you relate to that? It’s tempting to make days like today all about Hallmark...
by Dennis Stevenson | Sep 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
God told him what to do, and he did the exact opposite thing. It took a ship-sinking storm to bring him to bear. Jonah ended up going into the water but God had other transportation arranged for him and a big fish swallowed him up and took him back the other way....
by Dennis Stevenson | Aug 24, 2019 | Uncategorized
Isn’t it easy to read the Bible and find tales of cardboard people in a distant land. Most of us have never lived in Israel. Certainly none of us have lived in the first century AD. There is a lot that we don’t understand. Stuff we’ve never seen. I...
by Dennis Stevenson | Aug 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
Certainly none of us have lived in the first century AD (or earlier). There is a lot that we don’t understand. Stuff we’ve never seen. I love to research people and places in the Bible and gain insights that I can relate to others so that the stories “come alive.”...
