Message Notes
Sunday, April 3, 2022
Dennis Calhoun, Lead Pastor

Title: Love It, Learn It, Live It
Series: “I Love My Bible”

Oh, how I love your law! I meditate on it all day long. Your commands are always with me and make me wiser than my enemies. —Psalm 119:97-98 (NIV)


The Bible was written over a period of years in over nations on continents by different people from all walks of life with author.

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. —2 Timothy 3:16-17 (NIV)


INTERESTING STATS:

% read the Bible daily.


% only read the Bible 3-4 times a year.


million American adults explored scripture for the very first time in 2020/2021.

So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. —Romans 10:17 (NKJV)


1) your Bible.

Oh, how I love your law! I meditate on it all day long. Your commands are always with me and make me wiser than my enemies. —Psalm 119:97-98 (NIV)

We also thank God continually because, when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human word, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is indeed at work in you who believe. —1 Thessalonians 2:13 (NIV)


2) your Bible.


Learning God’s Word is not a condition for . It’s a condition for .


to God’s Word


God’s Word


Get a Bible


Set aside to the Bible


Have a Bible reading


Let the Bible read


God’s Word


Listen to


Do it with


3) your Bible.

How can a young person stay on the path of purity? By living according to your word. I seek you with all my heart; do not let me stray from your command. I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you. —Psalm 119:9-11 (NIV)


“A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t.”

Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path. —Psalm 119:105 (NIV)

Resources:

State of the Bible - 2021 Edition (PDF)