If you want to participate, read the first 2 chapters in Job and I will post some starting discussion questions. I am going to try and get some discussion questions posted every Monday , so that will give us the week to discuss and study the chapters we are on, and the weekend to read and prepare for the next week. This is not meant to be a study that is too overwhelming for a busy lifestyle, and you are meant to log on and participate whenever you can catch a free moment to do so...so if 2 or 3 chapters a week seems to be too much, we can always lessen the load. I am so excited that 7 of you have responded!! Please excuse all of the changes to the site, I am still getting things organized. There is a Bible resource toolbar that you can download from the link ChristiansUnite.com It actually looks like a decent search engine and it downloads for free right under the toolbar on your computer. It stays there until you want to take it off. If you are interested, it looks like a really good quick resource. I have downloaded onto our computer. Have a great weekend!!
Carrie
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A Time of Study and Reflection
Our Current Study for this Fall is...
Living By Faith....
What does it mean to you to daily walk by faith? How can we put this action repeatedly back into our lives?
What does it mean to you to daily walk by faith? How can we put this action repeatedly back into our lives?
Great Links for the "Biblion" Series By Dan R. Owen
Baptism
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http://www.prosperproductions.com/baptismparttwoV2-1.wmv
http://www.prosperproductions.com/baptismpartthreeV2-1.wmv
The Afterlife
http://www.prosperproductions.com/afterlifepartoneV3-1.wmv
http://www.prosperproductions.com/afterlifeparttwoV3-1.wmv
http://www.prosperproductions.com/afterlifepartthreeV3-1.wmv
Angels and Demons
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http://www.prosperproductions.com/ADshow_2b.wmv
http://www.prosperproductions.com/ADshow_3b.wmv
http://www.prosperproductions.com/baptismpartoneV2-1.wmv
http://www.prosperproductions.com/baptismparttwoV2-1.wmv
http://www.prosperproductions.com/baptismpartthreeV2-1.wmv
The Afterlife
http://www.prosperproductions.com/afterlifepartoneV3-1.wmv
http://www.prosperproductions.com/afterlifeparttwoV3-1.wmv
http://www.prosperproductions.com/afterlifepartthreeV3-1.wmv
Angels and Demons
http://www.prosperproductions.com/ADshow_1b.wmv
http://www.prosperproductions.com/ADshow_2b.wmv
http://www.prosperproductions.com/ADshow_3b.wmv
Prayer Needs
If you have a prayer request, please feel free to contact me by e-mail at
earlebrown99@yahoo.com and I will be happy to post it for the group to pray about.
earlebrown99@yahoo.com and I will be happy to post it for the group to pray about.
Coming Up...Reading Assignments
Upcoming readings...
I Samuel chapter 1 and chapter 2:1-11
I Samuel chapter 1 and chapter 2:1-11
Thought Behind this Blog....
Hello everyone. I had a thought today. I am so blessed with my Christian friends! I was studying scripture in the book of Job, and I realized that I really miss all of the different women that I have been in small studies with in the past. There are also many friends that I have not had the chance to live around recently, that I would love to share in a study with...and also grab a cup of coffee with...If you know me well, you know I love my Starbucks!! I decided to open up this blog as a weekly study of the scripture, and I want to invite you to study what I am studying. This is going to be from a Christian perspective, I really do not care what denomination you are from, I would love to have discussion on our studies. I will serve as a guide for questions and study, but hopefully you will all bring comments and questions that will deepen and broaden our studies. This website will not work with only my perspective. So, get up early, make a pot of coffee and log on and read the scriptures we are studying. Or possibly, drop off the kids, take your laptop and Bible to Starbucks, and enlighten us with your thoughts. I am hoping to use this site as a deep discussion of Biblical Scriptures.
If you are new to blogging, when you click on to comment, if you do not have a blog of your own, you can comment under anonymous. Just be sure to sign your name or something to let us know who you are!! I look forward to what you all have to say~CB
If you are new to blogging, when you click on to comment, if you do not have a blog of your own, you can comment under anonymous. Just be sure to sign your name or something to let us know who you are!! I look forward to what you all have to say~CB
Carrie Brown
About Me
I am a busy mother of two little boys and a wife. I love spending time with my children and my husband. I also really love spending time talking and reflecting with friends. I have lived and traveled to quite a few places in my adult life. There are many wonderful friends with whom I have shared many meaningful conversations. Because I am such a busy mom, I find that times to study and reflect can be hard, so can grabbing a cup of coffee with a friend. So, hopefully, this blog will help me to continue my own studies, and encourage you all to do so as well. The best part of it is, maybe I can get all of us from the different states and countries discussing the scripture together... I am eager to learn more, I hope you are too.
15 comments:
This is a great idea, Carrie! I'll (try to) participate! I'm currently working through an online Beth Moore study, but I think I can fit this study in, too!
I love this idea, Carrie -- had been thinking of doing something similar. I will enjoy participating as I can!
This is a perfect idea, count me in!!
Carrie, the past few days I've been racking my brain, looking around, wondering if something like this existed, or was even possible. I am totally excited about this idea - it's the direction I was going, you just beat me to it. May I ask what sources you are using for your research? I know Bret has a book or two I may have to confiscate for this. Count me in!
Carrie, I am such an "ignertramus" when it comes to blogging! I tried desperately to answer you earlier today, but never accomplished it, so I'm back, trying again! Hope it works this time. I think you have a wonderful idea and will do my utmost to participate. Staying up with Gabriel and teaching 20 students and my WEI English teaching take a lot of time already, but I do want to join all of you because I am sure it will be a blessing to me and all of us!
Hey Carrie...this is such a wonderful idea...it will be such a blessing for me to have right now since Jason is in Iraq...anything to get my mind off of that and what better way than with studying the bible...i look forward to it!
Carrie,
This is a great idea. I would love to participate. However, my participation will have to be in the evenings.
mops
Carrie-
this is a great idea. You really never cease to amaze me in the depth of your thinking and how well rounded you are. It is very obvious that the Lord works through you in many ways to touch the lives of so many you have come in contact with over the years, myself included, of course. Just as so many have said, this seems to be just what we need to get us moving in the right direction with trying to fit in more studying in our very busy lives. Thanks for being such a great friend and influence on me!
Carrie! I am also very excited about this study group. It will be great to check out Coffee Break after work during the week. I will be home alone without much distraction so that will be perfect for me. Plus I am always on the computer, so there really won't be an excuse for me not checking it out! I can't wait to get in on the discussions:)
Lorie
Thanks for the invitation, Carrie. I am so pleased that our friendship has blossomed into something intellectual in our adult lives. I am teaching at a Montessori school part time, as well as parenting. My free time is limited, but I will participate as I find free time.
Laura Goodwin
Thanks for the invitation, Carrie. I am so pleased that our friendship has blossomed into something intellectual in our adult lives. I am teaching at a Montessori school part time, as well as parenting. My free time is limited, but I will participate as I find free time.
Laura Goodwin
What a great idea!! Sorry I am just now looking at this, I'll be a little behind, but I want to catch up!! Thanks so much for including/inviting me!!
Job's speeches, beginning with Chapter 3, are filled with "Why"questions. He doesn't know why a person should be born if he is going to have to endure such suffering. But the "why"questions of Job are not answered in the drama. The message seems to be that God doesn't always tell us the "whys" of our struggles. He simply asks us to trust Him and keep trying to do his will even when we don't understand. It is our faith in God's ultimate wisdom and God's ultimate purpose that allows us to do this even when we don't understand "why".
Levite
It occurs to me that "suffering" in our country is an exageration compared to those in less-fortunate countries. I am currently helping with a new church development with a group of Liberian and Berundi refugees. In starting this mission, I realized that I knew little to nothing about the conflict over there. I am now reading a book called "What is the What" about a Sudanese refugee who was torn from his family when he was 6 years old, wandered through the wilderness with other "lost boys" and lived in 3 different refugee camps for 14 years of his life! WOW! Often times in the book he is asking God why he gave him life if only to suffer again and again. Even after he was brought to the states, he continues to miss his family, lose loved ones and be opressed. He quotes this passage from Mother Teresa which is also appropriate this time of year: "Suffering, if it is accepted together, borne together, is joy. Remember that the passion of Christ ends always in the joy of the resurrection of Christ, so when you feel in your own heart the suffering of Christ, remember the resurrection has yet to come-the joy of Easter has to dawn."
And also a prayer written by Mother Teresa:
Lord Jesus, make us realize
that it is only by frequent deaths of ourselves
and our self-centered desires
that we can come to live more fully;
for it is only by dying with you
that we can rise with you.
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