 | Abrahamic Covenant:
The Abrahamic covenant is an
unconditional covenant that God made with Abraham in Genesis 12.1-4,
confirmed to Isaac in Genesis 26.24, and Jacob in Genesis 35.12. |
| Angels and Demons: A short
summary study of angels and demons. |
| Apologetics Samplings: Three points on
Apologetics: 1) Is the Bible true? 2) Did Jesus really live? 3) Did
Christianity copy paganism? |
| Apologetics: The biblical and reasoned
defense of the biblical faith. |
| Babies and Death:
The character of
God dictates that a baby who dies will go to heaven. God will do the
right thing. This doctrine talks about God's faithfulness, comfort, care;
hope; and promises. |
| Baptism of the
Holy Spirit: The act by which the Holy Spirit indwells
every believer in Christ the moment he believes and identifies him with
Christ's body the Church. |
| Baptisms: There are at least seven different kinds of baptism mentioned in
the Bible. Three are wet baptisms and four are dry baptisms. |
| Barrier: The barrier is the sin wall that
exists between God and man because of man's fall. |
| The Bible: We Know It Is True: A
study of the evidence that confirms that the Bible is true and
trustworthy. |
| Christ's Death,
Distinctives: The distinctives of Christ's death on the cross (such as
predetermined, voluntary, substitutionary, expiatory, propitiatory,
redemptive, etc.) |
| Christ's
Death, Spiritual and Physical Death: Christ died for the sins of all mankind—sins past, present, and
future. What kind of a death did He die? |
| Christ's Death, Spiritual and Physical
Death: More on this subject. |
| Christology -
The Doctrine of Christ: A study of the person and work of our Lord
Jesus Christ. |
| Chronology of the Cross: The
events leading to the crucifixion of our Savior. |
| Dead Christian Life
Faith: James 2:14-26 |
| Demonism: A brief study of the Doctrine of
Demons. |
| Disciple: J.Dwight
Pentecost (14) writes "There is a vast difference between being saved and
being a disciple. Not all men who are saved are disciples although all
who are disciples are saved. In discussing the question of discipleship,
we are not dealing with a man's salvation. We are dealing with a man's
relationship to Jesus Christ as his Teacher, his Master and his Lord....a
personal and intimate relationship--a relationship based on the knowledge
of the person of Christ, a love for the person of Christ, submission to
the person of Jesus Christ, and obedience to the commands of Jesus
Christ." |
| Dispensations
Definition: Dispensations are the
Divine administration of human history (or period of time) in the
progressively revealed plan of God. Each dispensation is distinguished by
doctrine, people, administrators, and events. |
| Dispensations:
Definitions and Explanation:
Robert B Thieme, Jr: “A dispensation is a period of time expressing
the divine viewpoint of human history. In other words, dispensations are the
categories of human history, the divine outline of history, the divine
interpretation of human history” (Dispensations, R. B. Thieme, Jr.
Houston: Berachah Church, 1974. 8). |
| Divine Institutions and Divine
Establishment for Civilization: There are two sides of history, God’s
side and Satan’s side, and therefore there is a constant spiritual battle
through out history. |
| Divine Institutions
Summary: A Brief
Summary of Divine Institutions, Divine Establishment, Authority, Freedom,
and Ministry. |
| Dictionary of
Bible Doctrine: This dictionary includes doctrines and
Bible hero's in a short study format. |
| Divine
Institutions, Divine Establishment, Authority, Freedom, and Ministry: An
Independence Day study of divine institutions. |
| The End Time: An Overview: What
will happen in the future on earth according to the Bible. |
| Evil:
Evil has resulted from the fall of Satan and the fall
mankind. Evil sums up the worldview which Satan, the evil one has sponsored.
|
| Faith Alone In Christ Alone,
or Lordship
Salvation? The Gospel and Lordship Salvation;
Don't Confuse What is Clear |
| Fasting:
Fasting is the deliberate and
voluntary going without food (not water) in order to concentrate on God
and prayer to God. |
| Forgiveness:
To
grant pardon and to stop blaming someone, to no longer hold guilty.
Answers many questions regarding forgiveness: who has the authority to
forgive, who appreciates most, basis for forgiveness, how often should we
forgive, what is requires to forgive, whom and when should we forgive, and
illustrations of forgiveness. |
| Giving: Biblical giving is the giving of self
and wealth to God and his work, and doing so voluntarily and out of love
for God and his work. |
| God: The doctrine of God |
| Godly Women in the
Bible: A study taught to the Ladies at Spokane Bible Church. |
| God's Guidelines
for Life: What I think, what I do, how I treat people, how I am |
| God's Nature:
God is not just a great leader with strong
moral character. He is perfect. We know this by the biblical statements
about his character and by his actions recorded in Scripture. He is, as
stated above, awe-inspiring. He is sovereign, holy, just, love, eternal,
omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, immutable, true, blessed, good,
gracious, compassionate, merciful, patient, righteous, wise, self-existent
and self-sufficient, spirit, free, infinite, simplicity, and united. |
| Good Works: God's good done in God's way. |
| Gospel and Lordship
Salvation: Don't confuse what is clear. |
| Grace Giving: From 2 Corinthians 8
and 9 |
| Grace
Principles for Doubtful Things: How to proper use Christian liberty in
light of strong and weak believers. |
| Heathenism - What about those who have not heard
the gospel? God does not want anyone to perish. Instead,
He desires that all people know the truth and be saved from his judgment;
He wants all to have eternal life through faith in His Son. God has made
it possible for every person to arrive at God-consciousness through
natural revelation. If they believe in God, He will provide gospel
information. |
| Hermeneutics -
This is the science and art of interpreting the Bible. Some people are
changing the meaning from discovering the biblical author’s one intended
meaning based on an analysis of the grammar and the history of the time to
what does it mean to me apart from the historical time and purpose of the
text. |
| Humility
- Humility is a way of thinking about yourself in relation to God and
others; the opposite of pride or arrogance. |
| Historical Plan of God - What God is Doing
Through History:
Understanding the plan of God gives the believer
stability, orientation to history, purpose in life, and appreciation and
love response to God.
|
| Doctrine of the Holy
Spirit: Pneumatology study of from Pastor Kennedy's teaching notes,
Word of God Bible College, October 2006 |
| Hope In A Crisis: Why we can
be confident in God when we go through a crisis. |
| James 2:14-26, Dead Christian Life Faith:
The subject of James 2:14-26 is Christian life faith, not eternal
salvation faith. This faith will apply Bible doctrine and so will save or deliver the believer during
life. Both God and people see this active or living faith. |
| Legalism:
Legalism
is following, often publicly, a human standard for righteousness that
derives from human tradition or wrongly interpreted Scripture, claiming
that the standard has God’s authority, and imposing this standard on
others in order to gain eternal salvation, Christian life blessings, and
future blessings. |
| Levitical
Offerings: The Five Levitical Offerings of Leviticus 1-7. |
| Living Stone and the Believer: Jesus
Christ is the living stone of 1 Peter. The Messiah, the tested and costly
cornerstone, was the solution for the Jews during the suffering of
Isaiah's time. |
| Love for Others: Divine Love and
friendship love. |
| Marriage: When Considering
Marriage: Attraction, compatibility, rapport and some warnings. |
| Marriage Roles: Basic
responsibilities of the man and the woman in marriage. |
| Messiah:
The Bible predicted a person who was anointed
by God. This specific one was to redeem, rescue, lead, protect, rule,
and prosper Israel. Jesus Christ is the Old Testament and New Testament Messiah. |
| Millennium, Summary: The Millennium is the one thousand-year reign
of Jesus Christ, the Messianic-Theocratic King, over the entire earth.
|
| Ministry: Ministry
refers to the believer's individual Christian way of life within God's
plan, with emphasis on serving God |
| Miracles: Has God Performed Miracles? God's
miracles teach us about the ability and power of God, increase our faith
in the God of the Bible, and motivate us to glorify God. |
| Missions:
Missions is the biblical ministry that takes
God’s Word (gospel and basic doctrine) to people who live in geographical
regions and cultures where it is not accurately proclaimed. |
| Mosaic Law:
The
Mosaic Law is the document that God gave to Israel through Moses while
Moses was on Mt Sinai. It was to govern the life of the Israeli
theocracy—the priest nation. The law contained requirements, blessings,
and cursings, along with narrative (Exodus 19-20.1). |
| Motivation:
Our foundational
motive ought to be “for to me, to live is Christ…” We should desire to
please the Lord. |
| Music and Song:
Biblical music honors
God, teaches and recalls Bible doctrine, and encourages people. Music has
its source in God’s revelation—revelation of himself, of his works, of his
plan, and of his will.
Good music
lifts the soul and human spirit (encourage, give confidence and hope,
bring out thankfulness, and challenge to live right) and orders the soul
and human spirit (remove or lessen confusion, put emotions in proper
perspective with truth, and give peace). |
| New Covenant:
The new covenant is
God’s promise that he will graciously give Israel a future permanent
relationship and fellowship with him. |
| Pastor-Teacher
Overview:
Pastor
and teacher or pastor-teacher is the man gifted by God to equip believers
for ministry and for the edification of the church |
| Permanent
Spiritual Gifts: Permanent spiritual gifts are the God given spiritual abilities
that we in the church age now possess. |
| Peter Was Not a Pope:
Peter was not the
first Pope. In fact, the papacy is a product of man’s design, not God’s.
|
| Pillars of the
Faith: The Pillars of the Faith are the foundational
doctrines for the church age. |
| Positional Truth:
Positional truth identifies
the church age believer’s relationship with Jesus Christ. Positional truth
comes from the New Testament phrase “in Christ” which is found in 2
Corinthians 5:17 and many other passages. |
| Prayer: The people involved, principle of,
practice of, order of, and answers to prayer. |
| Reformed Theology Brief: A
brief review of the materials covered in Reformed Theology's Titanics. |
| Reformed Theology's Titanics:
This summarizes the Reformed tradition "position" held by their
theologians and students of theology. Most of the "people in the pews" in
Reformed tradition churches are not aware of all of this, nor do they think about this,
and if asked if they believed this, they probably would say that they do not know or that
they believe some of it. |
| Relationships Among
Believers: Guidelines for relationships among believers including
authority orientation, humility, love, privacy and forgiveness. |
| Repentance, Summary: Repentance
means to decide to turn from one’s sin; it is not a condition of
salvation; faith in Christ as Savior is the only condition for salvation
|
| Rewards:
God rewards believers
for service to him |
| Royal Birthright: We have,
therefore, a spiritual birthright. God has given to every believer in the
church a royal heritage, a royal mission, and a reason for royal courage.
This threefold birthright is a foundation for living the Christian way of
life. |
| Sabbath Summary: A summary of five
Sabbaths - Creation, Manna, Mosaic Law, Sabbath Year, and Spiritual
Sabbath Rest. |
| Sin Barrier: The barrier is the sin wall
that exists between God and man because of man's fall. |
| Spiritual Freedom and Human Freedom: God’s
authority establishes freedom; freedom requires responsibility; responsibility protects
freedom and restrains authority. |
| Spiritual Liberty, Love, Sacrifice:
Spiritual liberty,
love, sacrifice, profit, restoration, and burden bearing: principles
that guide believers’ actions and attitudes when around other people |
| Spiritual Gifts: A spiritual gift
is the special ability given by God to each believer for ministry within
the body of Christ |
| Spiritual Gifts: Permanent, Summary: Permanent spiritual gifts are the gifts that we in the church age
now possess. |
| Spiritual Gifts: Temporary:
Temporary spiritual gifts are supernatural sign gifts (supernatural
abilities) that God gave to certain believers for a limited period of time
so that they could authenticate their ministry and message about Jesus
Christ. |
| Stand Firm:
Biblical Doctrine of Believer, Stand
Firm! Summary |
| Tent Making:
Tent-making was Paul’s
money-making occupation while he witnessed for Christ and taught the Word
of God |
| The Living Stone and the Believer in 1 Peter
2.4-6 and Isaiah 28.16: Jesus Christ is the living stone of 1 Peter. The
Messiah, the tested and costly cornerstone, was the solution for the Jews
during the suffering of Isaiah's time. |
| Themes of the Faith - Studies of
Main Themes of
the Bible |
| Tongues, The Temporary Spiritual Gift of:
The spiritual gift of tongues is one of the temporary spiritual gifts; it
is the ability to speak in a known human language that the speaker had not
learned. |
| Trials of Jesus: The six trials of
Jesus before Jewish and civilian authorities. |
| Walking Biblically:
Walking refers to the regular and
progressive movement through life. When you walk you take a step at a
time. |
| War and God:
War is a continuing fact of life. Wars will continue to be
fought and rumors of wars will continue to spread throughout the world
until Jesus Christ personally rules the earth in the Millennial Kingdom |
| Witness by Teaching: Witness by teaching the
Bible means to communicate God’s Word to the listener so that the
listener can understand the message and choose to believe or reject it. |
| Worship: The
normal Christian life is a life of moment by moment worship. Along with
the day to day life, believers come together in assembly to worship in a
formal way. This kind of worship is not restricted to music or even
worship team led “worship.” The teaching of God’s word, prayer, giving,
the Lord’s table, biblical music, and water baptism all are biblical
worship. |
