Light and Life at The Ridge PV

Slides from Presentation      You Tube Video of 2nd Session Each day, challenge yourself to spend some time with God.  The  Seven Minutes with God  format is a fantastic start.  It is a great format for any form of personal study whether its seven minutes or seventy minutes.  Here is a short form for a reminder: .5 Minutes:  Prepare (small prayer to ask for humility and right mind) 4 Minutes:  Listen (Scripture reading) 2.5 Minutes:  Talking (Prayer utilizing the  ACTS  form of prayer     - Adoration (Praise), Confession (Bow), Thanksgiving (Marvel), Supplication (Ask) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Links:   Blue Letter Bible      Full Table of Scriptures       Net Bible 2nd Leg -  Week One As a minimum, find a time and place to read through the following verses in this order:  We will not try to move faster than our study takes us so this next week.  We are going to go back over some of the

 Week One Review Our opening meeting focused on sort of ground rules that the study will go by.  These are the basic assumptions that place us all in the same frame of mind as we approach God's Word and the Gospel accounts specifically. This is God's Word we are looking at.  God is communicating to us through an amazing way in many authors over thousands of years.  As we contemplate scripture we want to ensure the plain meaning is the meaning.  We begin with trying to see the author's original intent and then move toward the application to our lives after.  In the middle, is the crucial idea that the entirety of God's Word to us is about Jesus.  From Genesis 1 to Revelation 21... Jesus is the reason for every season.  God's plan was Jesus and that illuminates many seemingly irrelevant passages that we often simply scan through. We also discussed how we came to know the current make up of the Bible and the process of translating it into other languages.  The discussi

Each day, challenge yourself to spend some time with God.  The Seven Minutes with God format is a fantastic start.  It is a great format for any form of personal study whether its seven minutes or seventy minutes.  Here is a short form for a reminder: .5 Minutes:  Prepare (small prayer to ask for humility and right mind) 4 Minutes:  Listen (Scripture reading) 2.5 Minutes:  Talking (Prayer utilizing the ACTS form of prayer     - Adoration (Praise), Confession (Bow), Thanksgiving (Marvel), Supplication (Ask) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Links:  Blue Letter Bible     Full Table of Scriptures      Net Bible 1st Leg -  Week One As a minimum, find a time and place to read through the following verses in this order: Day One:  Matthew 1:1, Mark 1:1, Luke 1:1-4, John 1:1-18 Day Two:  Luke 1:5-25 Day Three:  Luke 1:26-56 Day Four:  Luke 1:57-80 Day Five:  Matthew 1:2-17,  Luke 3:23-28, John 1:1 (Th