Bible Studies and 2025

After some discussion and prayer and quiet time, the following will be our studies for 2025:

1. Jesus and Women:  This will be the second time for for this study...just that good!  The author Kristi McLellend focuses on studying the Bible thru an Eastern lens...learning about the time thru a historical focus.  
2. David:  Sight and Sound will host David this year, so we wanted to read and go see and study all at the same time.  I appreciate Beth Moore's earlier studies.  Very in-depth.  As a teacher, summer is a good time to host one of her studies!  More time...with Moore!
3. The Women of Christmas:  I so appreciate Liz Curtis Higgs and read this one some years ago and think the ladies will enjoy diving into this study as we approach the Christmas season.

I always look forward to our bi-monthly meetings.  This group of ladies bless me so.  Just a group of women wanting to ever learn more about Jesus.  

I usually choose studies that are video-based, since my time to full as I am still a full-time teacher.  Maybe when I retire I will take a different focus?  

The Women of Christmas does not have author videos, but since I read/studied it last time, the author has added a movie that coincides with the women discussed.

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Just for the record, we sure did enjoy last year's studies.  Always a very good thing to fellowship and study and focus on The Word.

These all were amazing and timely and needed.  Isn't that just like God?  To give what you need in ways you might not even know you needed?  To give more!  Yes, more was My One Word in '24.  Turned out to be a very good work...although I was a bit concerned about that word in the beginning as I thought I had no more time for more!  Re-learned that sometimes less can be more.  Also, I discovered that He had more in mind for me...more classes, more books, more friends.  just more.

This year, renew is my new one word.  This word found me during our focus on the heart during our Sunday evening Bible study.

Early in December, I began encouraging my students to ponder on one word that each might choose in 2025, as this will be one of our first Writer Notebook topics when we return on January 2.  At that time, I did not have any inkling of a word.  Nothing.  Not even a small hint.

Then, that Sunday evening as we read and studied that word jumped off the page, and I felt that gentle nudge...and the word renew would not leave me.  Yes, my word had chosen me.  I like!

Whatever you do...just stay in The Word...even when you do not want to do so.  Just stay.

Happy New Year!