daily devotions

You can choose a chapter a day for short or long devotionals.

For a brief devotional, read through Bible Themes, Application, and Prayer. Choose one theme and read the verses associated with that theme in Bible Themes With Verses. Choose one key verse that will help you meditate on that Bible theme for the rest of the day.

For a longer devotional, read through the whole chapter. Choose one Bible theme and one key verse to meditate on for the rest of the day.

Practical Wisdom

When you encounter challenging situations at work, pause and consider how the wisdom in God’s Word could improve your perspectives, attitudes, and actions.

Choose one or two chapters that apply to your situation. Read and meditate on God’s timeless wisdom. Pray for His assistance in applying His Word to your work situation.

bible reference

You can use these volumes to look up verses on a wide variety of biblical principles and themes.

The 120 chapters in these 10 volumes capture more than 11,000 verses in Scripture, including 37% of the New Testament, 70% of Proverbs, and 14% of the Old Testament.

Use the indexes on this website to look up specific verses and identify the volume and chapter where they were referenced.

These volumes will help you discover what God has revealed again and again in His Word across the centuries through a variety of divinely-inspired authors.

bible studies

You can use these volumes to prepare and lead Bible Studies that are interactive and practical.

Here is one approach that will allow you to use any chapter as a 45-60 minute Bible Study for a large group session that incorporates small group breakouts.

Opening Remarks: 5 minutes

Start with a brief overview of the topic, explaining why this topic is important.

Reading Aloud: 10-20 minutes

1. Starting in Bible Themes, read through all the themes. Have one person read them all or have different people take turns reading.

2. Skipping to Bible Themes With Verses, read through one theme at a time with all of the accompanying verses. Have different people take turns reading.

3. Have one person read Application.

4. Have a different person read Prayer.

Small Group Breakout #1: 10-15 minutes

In smaller groups, have people discuss their answers to the questions in Reflection.

Large Group Discussion: 10-15 minutes

Have everyone return to the large group and share highlights from the small group discussions.

To encourage sharing from more people, ask people to share insights they appreciated from others in their small group, instead of sharing their own insights.

Small Group Breakout #2: 10 minutes

In the same smaller groups, have people review the actions they will take to apply their insights at work. Close by praying for each other.

message Preparation

You can use these volumes to prepare messages suitable for Sunday mornings, retreat weekends, men’s and women’s ministries, and young adult ministries.

Here is one approach that will allow you to adapt any chapter into a 45-60 minute message.

Opening Remarks

Start with a brief overview of the topic, explaining why this topic is important.

Biblical Perspectives

Present selected insights from Bible Themes, along with selected verses from Bible Themes With Verses.

Decide whether you will focus on one or two key themes or summarize many themes for a broader overview.

Practical Applications

Practical applications can be drawn from your own experiences or from Application.

These applications can be presented one at a time with each biblical perspective or all together at the end.

Closing Prayer

Close in prayer, incorporating the biblical perspectives and applications that you highlighted in your message. You can borrow ideas or phrases from Prayer.

Discipling Programs

You can use these volumes to create a discipling program that combines biblical perspectives with practical applications and obedience on a variety of topics.

Here is one approach that will allow you to use any chapter for a one-to-one or one-to-many discipling program.

Importance

Start with a brief overview of the topic, explaining why this topic is important.

Reading

Read through Bible Themes, Application, and Bible Themes With Verses.

Understanding

Discuss the themes and verses that were read aloud. Use the Reflection questions to facilitate deeper reflection and understanding.

Meditation

Spend some time in quiet reflection, asking the Holy Spirit to reveal any sins that should be confessed, any inner transformations that should be embraced, and any practical actions that should be pursued.

Application

Share the practical applications that were revealed by the Holy Spirit during the Meditation time. Make specific, concrete goals to implement them in the coming weeks.

Prayer

Take turns praying that God would work His power in you as you confess the sins, embrace the transformations, and pursue the actions that He laid on your heart during the Meditation and Application times.

Accountability

At the beginning of the next session, ask for updates on the application goals from this session.

course assignments

You can use these volumes to create course assignments that integrate biblical perspectives into any topic you’re teaching.

Here are three assignment options for adapting any chapter as a course activity.

Choose whichever course activity you think will best encourage students to become accustomed to applying God’s Word to every topic that can be taught.

Biblical Reflections Journal

A weekly journaling approach works well for online courses, because students can submit their reflections in the online course tool and then read and comment on other students’ posted reflections.

Course Activity: Assign a chapter for each week’s Biblical Reflections Journal assignment, decide how long their journal posts should be, and instruct students to submit their journal posts online.

Biblical Reflections Discussion

A discussion approach works well for on-campus courses and conference calls where live student interaction can be facilitated.

Course Activity: Assign a chapter for students to reflect on. Instruct them to prepare answers to the five questions in Reflection. Facilitate the classroom discussion or conference call using those five questions.

Biblical Reflections Paper

A longer writing assignment can encourage students toward deeper reflection.

Course Activity: Assign a selection of chapters for this writing assignment. The five questions in Reflection can be one way of providing structure to this paper.