In this week’s Bible study, we stepped back into the book of Gospel of John, landing in chapter 4. After the deep and searching conversation Jesus had with Nicodemus, we now find Him in a very different setting—tired from His journey, sitting beside a well in Samaria. What follows is one of the most personal and revealing conversations in Scripture. Jesus meets a woman drawing water in the heat of the day. At first, it seems like a simple request: “Give me to drink.” But almo

In our Bible study this week, we spent time on a simple question that carries real weight in our walk with God: what is the difference between belief and faith?   At first, those two words can seem almost identical. We often use them interchangeably. But as we looked through Scripture, a clear distinction began to emerge. Belief is accepting something as true. Faith is trusting that truth enough to be obedient to it. That difference may seem small at first, but it changes eve

In our Bible study this week, we spent time looking at a word believers say often: salvation. We speak about being saved, or about how Jesus saved us, but the lesson slowed down to ask a simple question: what does that actually mean? The answer Scripture gives is both deeper and more beautiful than we sometimes realize. Salvation is about being rescued, delivered, and ultimately saved from death itself. The study began in Romans 5, where Paul explains that sin entered the wor

In our Bible study this week, we spent time looking at water baptism, what it means, where it comes from in Scripture, and how it fits into our walk with the Lord. At the heart of the lesson was a simple but important reminder. Everything we do in our walk with God is about following Christ and being transformed by Him. Baptism is not just a tradition or a religious act. It is connected to a real change that begins within. Throughout Scripture, water is often used as a symbol

In our Bible study this week, we focused on a simple but powerful question: who is Jesus in our lives? There is so much in Scripture that we can study—baptism, the Holy Ghost, prophecy, grace, judgment, and many other things—but every so often, it is good to stop and remember the center of it all. We need to talk about Jesus. In this study, one title stood out in a special way: Jesus is the captain of our salvation. That language comes from Hebrews 2, where Jesus is called th

In our Bible study this week, we shifted from John’s Gospel and spent time in Matthew 13, where Jesus teaches the parable of the sower. The lesson began with a simple reminder that stayed with us throughout the night: everything comes back to what Jesus said. The Word of God is not meant to be a distant idea or a religious concept—it is meant to be heard, received, and lived. Matthew writes that Jesus went out of the house and sat by the seaside. Great multitudes gathered to

In our recent Bible study, we spent time in John 3, where Jesus has a late-night conversation with Nicodemus. Nicodemus was a ruler of the Jews, a religious man who knew the Scriptures well. He acknowledged that Jesus must be from God because of the miracles He performed. But instead of affirming Nicodemus’ understanding, Jesus immediately said something that shifted the entire conversation: “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” That statement reveal

In our last Bible study, we continued through the Gospel of John and stepped into John chapter 2, where two familiar events reveal something important about Jesus—not only His power, but His heart. Before we even opened the chapter, we were reminded of something simple but easy to forget: anything we do for God is a sacrifice. Time spent gathering, praying, reading, and listening is an offering the Lord sees and honors. John 2 begins with Jesus attending a wedding in Cana. Wh

One of the most important moments in the opening of John’s Gospel is when John the Baptist sees Jesus and says, “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.” In our Bible study, we slowed down to sit with that statement, because John wasn’t just giving Jesus a poetic title. He was pointing to the center of God’s redemptive plan. In the Old Testament, forgiveness was tied to sacrifice. Under the Law, when a person sinned, they brought an offering, often a l

One of the most important questions a believer can ask is simple but searching: How can I keep my life in a condition where the Lord can speak to me—and I can hear Him?  In our Bible study, we spent time looking at Scripture to see that hearing from God is not accidental. It flows out of relationship, posture, and obedience. The first foundation is connection. Scripture makes it clear that hearing from God begins with the work of the Holy Spirit. John the Baptist spoke of One

Before Jesus ever began His public ministry, God sent someone ahead of Him—but to prepare hearts. John the Baptist wasn’t the main message. He was the messenger. His role was to make the path straight, to call people back to God, and to get a nation ready to recognize the Messiah standing in their midst. By the time we reach this moment in John’s Gospel, John the writer has already made something clear: Jesus didn’t begin in Bethlehem. He didn’t start with a genealogy or a ro

One of the hardest truths in Scripture is also one of the clearest: following Jesus will cost us something. Discipleship is not an add-on to our lives, it is a reorientation of them. In this Bible study, we spent time examining what it really means to follow Christ when obedience requires surrender, patience, and trust beyond our comfort level. We began in Numbers 9, where God led the Israelites through the wilderness by a cloud over the tabernacle. When the cloud moved, they

In our recent Bible study, we opened the Gospel of John. Scripture doesn’t just tell us what Jesus did, it reveals who He is. John doesn’t begin with a manger, a genealogy, or a public ministry. He begins before time itself, pointing us to the eternal nature of Christ and inviting us to see Jesus not only as Savior, but as the very Word of God made flesh. We first paused to compare how each Gospel introduces Jesus. Matthew connects Him to Abraham and David, grounding Jesus in

In our recent Bible study, we spent time in 1 Corinthians 13 and Luke 3 to focus on a simple truth: the Word of God isn’t meant to stay as information—it’s meant to shape our lives. Following Christ isn’t just about what we know; it’s about becoming more like Jesus through what we practice. Before we walked through Paul’s words, we paused to explain why we call it agape love. As the Bible has been translated over time, the wording in this passage has been rendered differently

In our recent Bible study, we looked at what it really means to live out  the fruit of the Spirit by walking through Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness in Luke 4. Instead of treating the fruit of the Spirit as theory, we asked: How do we actually put this into practice when life is hard and temptation is real? We saw that sometimes God allows us to walk through testing—not to destroy us, but to reveal what’s in our hearts and strengthen our faith (Deuteronomy 8 and 13). Jesu

In our most recent Bible study, we continued our walk through the Fruit of the Spirit by focusing on two qualities: meekness and temperance (Galatians 5:23). These aren’t signs of weakness, they’re signs of spiritual maturity. We looked at meekness as having no resistance to God’s Word —a heart that receives His instruction without walls or excuses. Moses is a powerful example of this. Even when God sent him back to Pharaoh again and again, he obeyed. Meekness doesn’t mean be

Last night in our online Bible study, we spent time walking through the Fruit of the Spirit — looking closely at longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, and faith. These don't automatically appear when we’re filled with the Holy Ghost; they’re spiritual traits we have to intentionally put on as we continue to grow in Christ. Paul reminds us in Galatians 5 that these qualities are the evidence of a life walking according to the standard of Christ. But walking in the Spirit requi