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Blog Purpose:  This blog will support our on-going Sunday night Bible study, which meets at 7:30 pm, EST on Google Meet. You can subscribe using the button at the top of the page and you will get an email when updates are made to the blog. Normally, a post will be made weekly to introduce the study for that week.

About the Study:  The title of the blog, “Two are Better Than One” comes from Ecclesiastes chapter 4. Now more than ever we need to come together and support one another. This is true regardless of where we are. My intent in starting this study is to provide a venue for mutual support and encouragement. It reminds me of the men’s Bible study on Saturday morning that we started at our church in Virginia many years ago. It went on the entire time we belonged to that church, and even after we moved away, it was still going on. That is the idea here, to create an on-going study that everyone can look forward to and attend when you are available.

Additionally, this blog can provide a community of sorts, so feel free to comment on the weekly posts.

We have studied through the parables of Jesus, the gospel of Matthew, and we are currently in the gospel of John. 

About Google Meet:  We will use Google Meet for this Bible study. If you are using a computer, use this URL: https://meet.google.com/rda-odwx-ueh?authuser=0. I will let you into the meeting within a few minutes of you joining. I typically try to start it by 7:25. 

If you are using a phone, iPad or other portable device, you can download the app or just open your browser and use the same web address. If you are using the Google Meet app, then you would us "rda-odwx-ueh" as the meeting ID. 

You are free to join with or without video, but if you want to talk, which I really encourage everyone to do, please turn your camera on so we can see you.

I encourage everyone to discuss topics, answer questions, ask questions or otherwise participate in the discussion. Please jump in if you have information to help clarify a point or you just need to talk. It’s all fine!

How to Contact Me:  The easiest way to contact me is to send the form on the top right side of the blog. This will send a message to me via email and I will get back with you. I welcome your feedback and comments.

Final Thoughts:  We started this study during the great Covid lockdown. Fortunately, that is in our rearview mirror, but that doesn't mean we can't learn from this time. Each of us is dealing with our own issues, but no problem is too trivial or too monumental for God. I may well disappoint you at times, but I promise God will never disappoint and he will always forgive (and forget) the trespasses of His children. All we have to do is ask.

We know that the greatest virtue is love (I Cor 13), as in the agape (unconditional) kind, which may otherwise be translated as compassion or charity. It is caring more about you than I do for myself. That is our goal in life. So I want us all to be open and honest in our conversation and discussion, but to cloak it all in a spirit of love and encouragement.

I look forward to seeing you all on Sunday evening! Greg

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  1. AnonymousNovember 1, 2023 at 10:56 AM

    In our study of the gospel of John chapter 3, we recently covered the “born again” passages and Nicodemus’s response to Jesus’ remarks that one must be born of water and spirit to see and enter the kingdom of God. Nicodemus was puzzled and said “How can these things be?” And Jesus chided Nicodemus saying “Are you the teacher of Israel and do not know these things?”

    Just what things was Jesus referring to- perhaps much of the Old Testament prophecies that pointed to Him and the atonement Jesus would make for His people?? We may have covered this but I will reemphasize it below.

    A visiting pastor in our church recently addressed this Nicodemus question by reference to Ezekiel 36: 24-28. That prophetic passage states “ For I ( God the Father) will take you from among the nations and gather you from all countries and will bring you into your own land. Then I will sprinkle clean water upon you and you shall be clean. From all your filthiness and all your idols, I will cleanse you. Also I (God the Father) wii give you a new heart and a new spirit I (God the Father) will put within you. And I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and you will keep my judgements and do them. …… And you will be My people and I will be your God.

    My views: God does it all and on this day after Reformation Day (October 31) , I suggest that the reformers some 500 years ago ago got it essentially correct re spiritual rebirth.

    john Smith

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