Tag Archives: Bible Studies

Seven Steps Toward Effective Sermons and Bible Studies

When I was a kid, I used to think that sermon preparation or Bible study lesson preparation was mostly a mystical experience. I probably wouldn’t have put it that way, but it was certainly more in the realm of mystery than anything practical. Then, I began doing competition oratory and preaching (I went to a […]

Bible Study Lesson for Acts 3:1-11: Peter Heals the Crippled Beggar

(I recently taught a Bible study covering the book the Acts of the Apostles. I used my mother’s Ryrie Study Bible to provide the basic outline of the Bible study.) This chapter tells the story of the healing of the lame man. Verses 1-11 describe the miracle; verses 12-26 gives Peter’s second recorded sermon or […]

Bible Study Lesson for Acts 4:23-31: the Believers’ Prayer

(I recently taught a Bible study covering the book the Acts of the Apostles. I used my mother’s Ryrie Study Bible to provide the basic outline of the Bible study.) We now move into the second section of this chapter that describes how the believers respond to this first act of persecution: they pray. Read […]