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Friday, October 14, 2005

Beth Moore

I'm in the midst of doing Beth Moore's Bible Study, The Patriarchs, with a group of ladies at one of our local churches. Since Beth is from Houston, she often tapes her videos for soon-to-be-released Bible studies every Tuesday night at her home church downtown.

This season, she is doing something a little different. She is doing her Patriarchs study on Tuesday nights. Due to my schedule, I have yet to get downtown to see her live and have instead been watching the boxed videos with my women's group on Wednesday mornings.

But next Tuesday night, I am going to try and get down there to enjoy her live. It is lots of fun because she always has incredible praise-and-worship thru music scheduled before she speaks, then opens with a powerful prayer and culminates by allowing the Lord to speak through her and to all of us. The Spirit so fills that place, that by the time I crawl back into my car to return home, I am singin' and shoutin' to the Lord the entire drive. (My challenge is in keeping both hands on the wheel during these moments I share with Him.)

Isn't it amazing how relevant these Bible studies we do are? Do you ever feel like God is talking directly and specifically to you? God's Word speaks.

What are you doing now? Do you have a "favorite" Bible study that particularly spoke to you? I'd love to hear all about it.

P.S. Are you reading Forgiving Solomon Long? Because our book discussion starts Wednesday!!

posted by Deeanne at 10:45 AM

4 Comments:

Barb said...: Doesn't Beth have a cute smile?! For us, it's the Crown Financial Small Group Study. Two ladies we know who did Beth and Crown at the same time almost passed out from the intensity, and recommend that people not do both at once. Most people (incl Christians, incl me!) avoid the subject of money like the plague. But Jesus talked heavily about it, and the sneaky little secret about the Crown small group is that it's actually a character study. So people learn budgeting and planning and all, but they're also forced to examine themselves in the process--honesty (or lack of it), work attitude, generosity (or lack of it), eternal perspective, etc, etc. My husband leads with a non-related co-leader, and I joke that I come as the bad example! But just as soon as the study starts, people's lives start changing for the better, and in amazing ways. You'd almost think it's too incredible to believe, except that you know it's just the Word of God actually being applied to real, individual lives.
Deeanne said...: Oh, Barb, I love that! I've not done the Crown study. Sounds awesome.
Barb said...: I went thru it with my teen boys last year, and at one point you're supposed to estimate how many days you have left on earth. Not years, but days. So I calculated, just based on statistics (and being hopeful), and came up with around 10,000. My youngest son said, "Wow! That's a lot!" Then the boys calculated and came up with around 22,000 for their lives. This time youngest sobered significantly and said grimly, "Wow! That's not very much!" A little more interesting when it's your own calendar pages flipping by! But it definitely gave 'em something deeper to think about.
Michelle Pendergrass said...: I'm in the middle of Beth Moore's Believing God. That one has got me. It is AMAZING. And the things I've learned. And the miracles I've seen happen in the time I've been studying. Wow!

I'm moving on to the Patriarchs next.