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Blog entries for the category Bible Study Resources
Four Benefits of Bible Listening
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Saturday, May 19
First of all, buy an iPad.That’s not what this blog entry is all about, but go ahead and do it. The method of Bible listening I’m going to recommend works best with a smartphone or an iPad.Last January I started using two iPad apps in my daily Quiet Time. I use YouVersion for my Bible reading and Bible.Is for my Bible listening. I start...
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Daily Bible Listening
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Friday, January 6
Lately Marlene and I have started a new adventure in daily Bible listening. That’s right. Daily Bible listening.For a long time if you wanted to listen to the Bible, you had to buy a big set of CDs or DVDs. With the advent of smartphone apps, you can now listen to the whole Bible, read alone or read dramatically with music in the background.&...
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J. C. Ryle’s “Matthew” Now Available in Audio Format
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Wednesday, December 7, 2011
I am pleased to announce that LibriVox has just released the first-ever audio version of J. C. Ryle’s Expository Thoughts on Matthew. LibriVox makes free recordings of books in the public domain. In this particular case, the Ryle recordings were made by KBM board member MaryAnn Spiegel. Readers of this blog know that I am big fan of J. C...
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J. C. Ryle’s “Expository Thoughts” Now Available in Ebook Format
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Tuesday, September 20, 2011
For many years I’ve turned to J. C. Ryle’s Expository Thoughts on the Gospels when I wanted to study a text from the gospels. Ryle, an evangelical Anglican who served in the late 1800s in Great Britain, had an uncanny ability to get to the heart of each passage. More than that, he knew how to find the “preachable truths&...
A Week With James at the BI
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Friday, September 16, 2011
Word of Life Florida Hudson, Florida I’m writing this note, hurriedly, with about 30 minutes left before it’s time to leave for the airport. In a few minutes Stu Page will pick me up and I’ll start my journey home.Earlier today I gave my final two lectures on James to the 170 students at Word of Life Bible Institute, Florida c...
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Getting Ready to Teach James
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Thursday, September 8, 2011
For the last several weeks I’ve been immersed in the little book of James in preparation for teaching it next week at Word of Life Bible Institute in Florida. It’s been a new adventure for me since I last taught the book on Wednesday nights in the Pastor’s Class that met in the Dining Room at Calvary Memorial Church in Oak Pa...
Five Excellent Bible Study Websites
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Saturday, June 12, 2010
The Internet offers a vast array of websites for those wanting to study the Bible. You can find everything from devotional studies to outlines to sermons to Greek and Hebrew exegesis. Thousands of public domain Bible commentaries are now available. There is so much available that nowadays I do most of my Bible study online. Years ago I would stack ...
New Scripture Pop-Up Program
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Friday, March 5, 2010
Derek Taylor, the KBM webmaster, has just installed a program on our website that turns all Scripture references into hyperlinks with a “hover” window that contains the complete verse.Simply put your cursor over any Bible reference (it also puts them in bold) and watch what happens! Try it out in the paragraph below.Lately I’ve be...
BibleOutlines.com
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Saturday, December 5, 2009
We have made a new addition to our Recommended Resources page. For the last few years Paul Apple has been putting together a series of excellent preaching outlines covering many different books of the Bible on a website called BibleOutlines.com. This is a great gift to the busy pastor who enjoys preaching through books of the Bible. Basically you d...
Terrific Time in Florida
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Thursday, November 19, 2009
I hope you’ll take a good look at this photo because these are your Christian leaders of tomorrow. I know because I’ve spent this week with them at Word of Life Bible Institute in Hudson, Florida. For ten hours this week I’ve been teaching them the Book of Daniel. And I must say they are a studious bunch. We meet each day in the G...
ESV Study Bible
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Monday, November 2, 2009
For over a decade I’ve been collecting a variety of study Bibles to use in sermon preparation. I can’t say that I’ve got every study Bible on the market because so many new ones come out every year. But I have used (and enjoyed) the NIV Study Bible, the Ryrie Study Bible, the MacArthur Study Bible, the Life Application Bible, the …
Transformation Study Bible
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Monday, September 7, 2009
Last Wednesday we interviewed Dr. Warren Wiersbe about the brand-new Transformation Study Bible, which features notes based on his lifetime study of the Word of God. When we asked me how this study Bible fits in a very crowded market, he told us that while many study Bibles offer excellent information on names, dates, places, and details on biblica...
Free Bible Commentary
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Thursday, August 20, 2009
We have just added a new listing to our page of Recommended Resources. Check out the website called Free Bible Commentary, featuring written, audio and video resources by Dr. Bob Utley. Here is the description from his website:We are a non-profit Bible study ministry dedicated to reaching the world for Christ. Our goal is to empower God’s peo…
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Two New Resources
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Sunday, July 12, 2009
Have you checked out our Recommended Resources lately? We continue to add to it as a way of keeping you connected with a wide spectrum of biblically-related thought. We have sections on “Sermons,” “Christian News,” “The Church Around the World,” and an excellent collection of “Bible Study Resources.” …
Updated Resources
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Thursday, April 23, 2009
A few months ago we opened a no-frills section of the website called Recommended Resources. I call it no-frills because there are no pictures or other fancy designs. If you click on the link, you will see what I mean. We have gathered on one page some of our favorite online resources. We start with a section called Bible Study Resources for those p...
Get on the Bible Bus
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Thursday, January 15, 2009
During our get-organized campaign that started last week, Marlene uncovered this pin that we gave away in 2002 when the whole congregation took the challenge to “get on the Bible bus” and read the Bible all the way through. Every Sunday that year I began my sermon with the same question, “So how are you doing?” After the fir...
Odds and Ends
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Thursday, December 11, 2008
**We just sent out the final sermon in the three-part series from Psalm 103. Although it went out to over 5200 people, we have no idea how many will actually receive it because we continue to have problems getting it to the Inbox of all those people. AOL has been blocking the sermons for the last month. We are cautiously hopeful that we have a work...
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Check Out the New KBM Resources Page
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Sunday, October 5, 2008
This week we have added a brand-new Resources section to the Keep Believing website. Right now it’s pretty plain vanilla and it’s buried at the bottom of the page, next to the buttons for “Contact Us,” “About Us” and “Donate.” I think we’ll eventually move it up higher so people can find it easi...
Best Commentaries.com
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Saturday, August 23, 2008
I recently ran across a website that I highly recommend to all Bible students, especially to pastors and other Bible teaches. Best Commentaries does exactly what its name implies. It is a website devoted solely to ranking the best commentaries on every book of the Bible. The website is both thorough and up-to-date. The website develops its own rank…
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The Entire Bible at Your Fingertips
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Friday, July 18, 2008
Here’s a page where you can find the entire Bible at your fingertips on one page. (HT to Peter Faulkner).…
Tuesday News and Notes
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Tuesday, June 10, 2008
*Yesterday my new laptop computer arrived. It’s a Micro Express IFL 9025 that got a good review on the PC World website. It’s amazing how far the technology has come since I bought my last laptop 20 months ago. *One thing you forget is how long it takes to set up a new computer. I’ve spent hours last night and today transferr...
Tornado in Tupelo
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Saturday, May 10, 2008
Upon arrival from Austria, we were awakened by a tornado that rampaged through our neighborhood and Tupelo.
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A First Look at The Da Vinci Code
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Monday, February 13, 2006
After being urged to do so by many friends, I finally got around to reading The Da Vinci Code, the mega-bestseller by Dan Brown. The book has sold an astonishing 30 million copies since its release in 2003. Later this spring the movie version starring Tom Hanks seems likely to become the biggest film of the year, spurring m ...
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First Baptist Church of Tupelo
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Sunday, February 12, 2006
This morning we visited the First Baptist Church of Tupelo. The church is at least 150 years old, making it Tupelo’s oldest church. The original building was used as a hospital during the Civil War. As befits an established church, it occupies a prominent location in central Tupelo at the corner of Church and Jefferso ...
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China—Day 1
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Tuesday, January 17, 2006
3:23 PM Tonight we’re eating supper at Peter’s Tex-Mex Grill, the best Tex-Mex restaurant in Beijing, which is presumably a small category. 3:16 PM We spent last night at the Holiday Inn Chang An West. I think it was a very nice hotel but we were so tired that we didn’t have a chance to enjoy much of it. I ...
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Circumlocution
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Monday, January 16, 2006
The TV at the Beijing hotel where we are staying tonight has about 45 channels. Most are Chinese, of course, and it seems as if you can find counterparts for every sort of channel you find on an American cable system, including game shows, soap operas, music videos, movie channels, and so on. There are a few English-languag ...
Time to Go to China
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Saturday, January 14, 2006
7:13 PM The weather in Buffalo changed dramatically overnight. A cold front hit, dropping temps into the low 20s. The day started with rain that turned to blowing snow and ice. The low tonight should be around 17.7:06 PM Last year I made a list of all the last-second things that had to be done before leaving for China the n ...
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Starting in the Right Place
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Wednesday, January 4, 2006
Around noon today I was interviewed by USA Radio regarding the coal mining tragedy in West Virginia. The interviewer wanted to know what I would say if the family members of one of the twelve men who died asked me, “Why did this happen?” My answer would have to be, I don’t know. The Bible offers many perspectives on t ...
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China in Twelve Days
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Tuesday, January 3, 2006
11:45 AM “It does not matter whether or not people understand us or think we are even sane as long as we are true to God. Obedience to him is the important thing.” Theodore Epp9:12 AM One of our favorite Christmas cards came from some friends in Oak Park who sent us a card featuring traditional Chinese paper cutting. Each c ...
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Troubling Deaf Heaven
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Monday, January 2, 2006
5:03 PM “It is a great thing to be on the mount with God, and the mountains are meant for inspiration and meditation; but one is taken there only to go down afterwards among the demon-possessed and lift them up.” Oswald Chambers5:03 PM 28 miles.10:22 AM Cal Thomas has a helpful analysis of the Dover decision rejecting Intel ...
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Safer Than a Known Way
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Sunday, January 1, 2006
As we look ahead to the year that stretches before, here are four truths that ought to encourage us in 2006:1. God is already there because he is the God who goes before his people. 2. God promises to be with you no matter what happens to you this year. 3. If you know the Lord, the worst thing that can happen is that you wi ...
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Evolution or God
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Thursday, December 22, 2005
12:44 PM Each year Steve and Amy Tanner rate the Christmas decorations on State Street in Chicago. They have just posted the winners of the State Street Showdown. 12:44 PM Each year Steve and Amy Tanner rate the Christmas decorations on State Street in Chicago. They have just posted the winners of the State Street Showdown ...
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John Armstrong and Act 3
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Wednesday, December 21, 2005
Almost ten years ago I attended my first Christian booksellers convention at the invitation of Moody Press. One night they had a banquet for all their authors in attendance. I ended up sitting next to man named John Armstrong.
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Credo: Believing in Something to Die For
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Wednesday, December 21, 2005
Crossway Books has just released my latest, brand-new book called Credo: Believing in Something to Die For. I wrote this book in order to introduce a new generation to the Apostles’ Creed, the oldest statement of faith outside the New Testament. The publisher designed the cover and the layout to attract Gen X readers ...
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Friday, August 20, 2004
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Friday, August 20, 2004
12:53 PM Today's entry in the Crosswalk weblog is called Friday Random Thoughts. 8:53 AM Whitney Hopler wrote an article called Pray Like the Apostle Paul based on my book "Beyond All You Could Ask or Think" on the Crosswalk.com website. 7:05 AM Friday shout-out to Rob and Kim Skinner and their three boys in Colorado Sp...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2004
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Wednesday, February 4, 2004
9:04 PM Robert Moran discusses the culture war and the coming elecion. 8:56 PM A Dallas couple purchased 6000 tickets to Mel Gibson's The Passion of Jesus Christ, which opens February 25. They have rented all 20 screens at a local theater complex and will be showing the film 22 times on February 25. They are giving 3000 tic...
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Thursday, June 5, 2003
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Thursday, June 5, 2003
OPCA graduation was a grand success as we celebrated the children who had finished kindergarten and also those students who graduated from the 8th grade. One of the teachers remarked that these joyous occasions remind us all why the school is so important... .
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