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Making Room: Raising Up Bible Study Leaders in the Local Church

KIM BARNES | CONTRIBUTOR I was a freshman in college, newly involved in campus ministry, when I fell in love with Bible study. Each week, I gathered with a small group of fellow students to study God’s Word with the help of an older student. None of us—including our leader—were Bible scholars. We were simply college students who loved Jesus and wanted to know Him more. At the end of that first year, I attended a student leader training conference. For the remaining three years of college, I co-led small-group Bible studies and discovered the joy of crafting questions that helped our group uncover truths in a passage of Scripture. I graduated from college nearly forty years ago, and for most of the decades since, I have led Bible studies, usually with small groups of women in my local church. I was not a Bible scholar in college, and I am still not one today. Most of what I know about Scripture has come not from formal academic training, but from decades of ordinary Bible study alongside ordinary saints. I don’t lead as a scholarly expert, but as a fellow learner. And you can lead that way, too....

Making Room: Raising Up Bible Study Leaders in the Local Church2026-10-06T14:37:20+00:00

Watered Women of the Word

MARIA CURREY | CONTRIBUTOR When the skies begin to rumble and dark clouds tumble, folks in the South know they should either take cover or get ready to jump in big puddles! There is nothing quite like God’s glory roaring from thunderclouds. Deluges from the sky bring beautifully abundant garden beds filled with new life exploding with color. As rainwater replenishes gardens, we see the whole garden grow and each drop of rain is needed to bring forth the harvest. So it is with the Body of Christ. As we drink in Christ’s living water, it soaks into our hearts and replenishes us with His soul quenching love. Drop by Drop Over the course of a fruitful season in the Word, I had the privilege to watch one woman water the seeds of faith in two precious beloveds, drop by drop of kindness, care, attentiveness, and love. They both came to our weekly Bible study, having been uprooted from what they knew before. One, a recent immigrant from a country overrun by economic turmoil, she and her family came to find a more sustainable life. Another, a single mother, raised in rich spiritual soil, nonetheless experienced heartache and hardship along her path. Both were nurtured under the inviting shepherd-hearted leadership of a woman who understands what it means to provide a constant overflow of encouragement, lovingkindness, accountability, and reinforcement to remain deeply rooted to the taproot of Jesus love. Their hearts reflect connections which are constantly renewed while walking a relationally driven and Word-based lifeline together....

Watered Women of the Word2026-09-18T19:51:05+00:00

Dressing for Bible Study

KENDRA KAMMER|GUEST In Colorado where I live, we aren’t known for our fashion sense. Recently I received a wedding invitation, and the dress code was “Mountain Formal.” (I know you’re curious: the ladies wore sundresses and cowboy boots, and the men wore jeans and bolo ties.) I’ve even learned how to pre-load my wardrobe into ChatGPT so it can tell me what to wear to any given event and take that mental load off myself! Thankfully, when it comes to Bible study, God has already told us what to wear: “Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other. …And above all these put on love” (Col. 3:12-14). Wear What Fits Colossians 3 tells us what to “wear”: compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, patience, forgiveness, and love. These qualities remind us that Scripture is learned best within loving Christian community. As we study God's Word together, these qualities should shape the way we treat one another....

Dressing for Bible Study2026-08-14T17:39:32+00:00

Weakness as Warfare Strategy

CHRISTINE GORDON | CONTRIBUTOR Unless you or someone close to you has a military background, warfare strategy isn’t something you probably think about much. But as believers, we are in a thousands-year-long conflict with the world, the flesh, and the devil. In 2 Corinthians 10, we read a snippet about that war. A Plan for Battle Some of Paul’s friends had been taken captive in the city of Corinth, and his strategy for freeing them included the ancient practice of siege warfare. His battle plan included three distinct steps: First, demolish the fortified military stronghold. Second, take all enemies captive. Finally, punish any remaining resistance. Any citizen in first century Corinth would have been aware of such battle tactics, and all would have understood that the resisters in the city would eventually lose against the invading commander.  Don’t remember this part of 2 Corinthians? Perhaps a clue will help: Paul’s battle was not conducted with maps and guns but with the power of God. He and his fellow soldiers were waging war in the spiritual world with a different kind of munition... 

Weakness as Warfare Strategy2026-07-25T19:29:30+00:00
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