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Dr. Alan B. Stringfellow
THE BOOKS
These works were written out of a vast background of teaching and learning Dr. Stringfellow reaped from great Bible scholars and wonderful friends. Dr. Stringfellow used thoughts, suggestions, help from sermons, and the pens of people such as Dr. W. A. Criswell, Dr. J. Vernon McGee, Irving L. Jensen, Henrietta Mears, and Dr. J. Sidlow Baxter. The lessons are printed as they were presented in class. Dr. Stringfellow's prayer was that God will graciously use Through the Bible in One Year to make His Book come alive in the hearts and lives of hungry souls who need to know the Word of God.
Through The Bible In One Year
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With Through The Bible In One Year you will learn the major themes of all the books, the key verses, the central messages, what God is saying. You will also learn how each book is organized, how it came into being, its role in the Bible story.
Still more, you will learn how to analyze all 66 books, which are the most significant chapters, where to find the central purpose, which chief verses to copy and remember. When you have completed this study, you join a long list of Bible lovers who credit Through The Bible In One Year with bringing them greater insight into the Scriptures and more knowledge of God's Word than they ever thought possible.
That's because Through The Bible In One Year takes you book by book through God's Word, enabling you to see the progressive step-by-step revelation of His will as perhaps never before. You will see God's Word evolve from the Pentatuech to the Revelation, 66 books written by 40 authors covering approximately 1600 years.
Studying God's Word from beginning to end is basic to knowing it well, yet most literature about the Bible skips from place to place often resulting in confusion and misunderstanding. You never read a story this way, and the Bible is a narrative telling of God's plan of redemption through Jesus Christ from Genesis through Revelation.
So you are about to see the Bible unfold as a beautiful, divinely inspired true story, with a beginning, a middle and an end yet to come.
Great Truths of the Bible
First Peter 2:2 says, "As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby." In Hebrews 5:12, we read, "For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat." Then, in Hebrews 5:14: "But strong meat belongeth to them that are full of age [spiritually mature}, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil."
This study has been written with the layperson in mind. It does not contain deep theological presentations, but it does require Scripture searching and dependence upon the "Teacher"--Holy Spirit--or complete understanding. It is good to know the great truths of Scripture. It is better if these truths become a living reality in the lives of all who study this series of lessons. By knowing God's truths, on can become a "doer" of the Word and not a hearer only (see James 1:22-25).
The King James Version of the Bible is used in the writing of these lessons. If another version is used, it will be stated. The lessons are not necessarily presented in chronological order. However, the fifty-two lessons will take the student through the bible as the great truth from Genesis to Revelation are presented. May the Holy Spirit of God use these studies for His glory as His Word is magnified, Jesus is glorified, and His church is amplified.
"Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drwn from the breasts. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little" (Isaiah 28:9-10)
Great Characters of the Bible
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Great Characters of the Bible deals with many characters of Scripture--going back to Adam and proceeding through the Bible once again to Paul and the beloved disciple, John. This study deals with the lives of real men and women, showing their human frailties and personalities and God's divine providence in their lives. As you study through this book, you will gain helpful insights into principles of effective Christian living and services today. In the experiences of God's characters, we can see ourselves--in both their victories and their defeats. In their lives, recorded for us in God's Word by the Holy Spirit, we can discover His eternal, sovereign plan and purpose for our lives.
Dr. F.B Meyer of Britain once said, "to recruit a dwindling congregation, to sustain interest in a crowded congregation, to awaken new devotion to the Bible, and to touch the many chords of human life, there is nothing to be compared with the retelling of the stories of the Bible heroes and saints." Dr. C.E. Macartney said, "the great advantage of preaching [teaching] Bible Characters is the fact that you summon these characters and allow them to preach [teach] for you."
The Bible tells the whole story of God's dealing with His creatures. Once He chooses a man or woman, He allows both the good and the bad of their characters to be recorded in His Holy Word.
Similarly, He accepts us as we are, good and bad, on the basis of our faith in His Son, Our Blessed Lord. Dr. Stringfellow wrote these studies with the pupil in mind. "Pupils" are those of any age who can read and enjoy the story, from approximately 9 years old through the oldest adult. Dr. Stringfellow used resources available in the writing and teaching of these lessons. Among them are the distinguished works of Herbert Lockyer, All the Men of the Bible and All the Women of the Bible; Edith Deen's, All of the Women of the Bible; the sermons and tapes of Dr. W.A. Criswell, which I have preserved from his ministry;and, finally, the radio Bible study notes of Dr. J. Vernon McGee.
Plato once remarked about borrowing thoughts: "Bees cull their several sweets from this flower and that blossom, here and there where they can find them, but they make the honey which is purely their own. So he who borrows from others and blends together what shall be absolutely his own, he is not obliged to discover whence he had his materials, but only to produce what he has done with them." The task of gathering this material, putting it into a down-to-earth teachable form, trying and proving it by teaching it to lay teachers and pupils, has been an exciting adventure Dr. Stringfellow said that. Credit is hereby given to the above--anything else in the study has been taken from background of years of teaching, preaching and writing.
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