My monthly newsletter articles feature the fruits of study and obedience to fulfill God's call as an urban missionary in the Metro Detroit area. The newsletter posts feature the opening article and a link to the full newsletter and to old newsletters. The articles focus on discovering intimacy and passion on the urban mission field and in Muslim Ministry.
One of the most common ways to take notes in your Bible is to create your own cross-references in the margins, linking verses that interpret and illuminate each other. Often the process and order of creating these cross references leads to new revelation as topics connect and diverge, one theme leads to another and the relationship between topics in the Word often brings light.
Create an interleaved Bible by pasting alternating pages from old abused paperback editions into a large plain notebook. With a little ingenuity and some old Bibles and some household items you can have a study tool similar to Jonathan Edward's blank Bible.
This highlighting project didn't start out with a complex color scheme, but grew from the desire to focus on a single subject. Jesus makes an unequivocal statement in John 14:15 that constantly challenged me as a young believer and continues to stir me and burn me today: "If you love me you will keep my commandments."p>
One of the most basic ways to begin grasping a concept, word or image through scripture is to trace its English use and identify how it's used in different contexts. Comparing and contrasting the use of an individual word through the Old and New Testament using only a concordance and the Bible may seem limited in this age of information, but it is still my most commonly used form of study, and it has many strengths.
So often our study of the Bible can be a study of the book without a motivation to really study and know Jesus better. Are we really pursuing Christ in the Word or are we pursuing the word itself and denying the divine revelation of Jesus as a person in our lives? Are we following Jesus or only following His teachings? We were meant to know and worship and follow a Person.
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