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What’s Our Next Bible Study?

Michelle Lesley

 

Ladies, as our study of 1 & 2 Timothy draws to a close over the next couple of weeks, I’ve been thinking about our next Bible study. I’ve narrowed it down to two options, but I wanted to get your input as to which one you’re up for. Or down with. Or whatever. The two options are:

A topical study on prayer
My thought here is to study about 5 to 10 prayers from various Bible characters, Old and New Testament, to learn more about prayer and how to strengthen our prayer lives. For example, the Lord’s Prayer, Solomon’s prayer for wisdom, etc.

An expositional study of a New Testament book
Similar to the 1 & 2 Timothy study, my study on Mark, and so on. I’m leaning toward Galatians or Philippians, but I’m not 100% settled on a particular book yet.

We will most likely do both of these studies, it’s just a question of which one to do next.

Here’s where y’all come in! Leave a comment below and let me know two things:

1. Which study would you like to do next?

2.a. If you prefer the prayer study, what are some prayers from the Old or New Testament that you’d like to see included?

2.b. If you prefer the expositional book study, which book of the New Testament would you like to study? (We have already done Mark, Colossians, 1&2 Timothy, 1, 2 & 3 John, Philemon, and Jude)

I’ll take everybody’s input into consideration, pray about it, and let you know soon what our next study will be!

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Blog schedule change

Michelle Lesley

To my regular readers- I apologize for the abrupt change in blog schedule. I know that many of you were expecting the next lesson in our 1&2 Timothy study today. Don’t worry, Lesson 9 in our study is coming tomorrow, but I needed to share a time sensitive item today: An Open Letter to Beth Moore.

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Gimme a Break!

Michelle Lesley

Hey Everybody-

As is my usual summertime custom, I’m taking a break from blogging this week to spend some time with family. So my normal blog schedule is out the window and I’ll be re-running articles from the archives all this week, and possibly next Monday (6/17).

As it happens, this week is also the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention, so the articles I’ll be re-running will center around Southern Baptists and the SBC (although all are relevant to non-SBC Christians). Aside from being a theme geek, there’s an important reason I’m doing this. I would deeply appreciate it if you would pray for the SBC. There are some very unbiblical movements afoot that need to be stopped and repented of. Will you please pray that the Holy Spirit will convict Southern Baptists of sin wherever that conviction is needed, grant us the gift of repentance, and give us a hunger for holiness? I am hoping that each day’s article will be a small reminder to pray for us.

If you are participating in the 1&2 Timothy study, please use this week to catch up, read ahead or go back and concentrate on any passage you’d like to dig deeper into. I’m planning to have a new lesson for you next week.

See you soon!

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A New Addition: Biblical Counseling Resources

Michelle Lesley

If you’ll scroll up to the top of this page, you’ll see a new addition to my resource tabs – the one that says Biblical Counseling Resources.

Often, women write to me needing help with difficult and complex life circumstances. It would be neither ethical nor effective for me to try to assist them via e-mail. They need someone who can sit down with them face to face for the long haul and help them walk through the situation biblically. A good biblical counselor can be a Godsend in situations like these.

So, what is biblical counseling? How can someone find a biblical counselor? Interested in training to become a biblical counselor? It’s all at the new resource tab, but I need your help.

My Searching for a new church? resource tab has been very successful in “matchmaking” readers with doctrinally sound churches, and that has been, in no small part, thanks to your recommendations of good churches. So once again, I’d like to ask for your help – this time, to build a list of recommended biblical counselors.

If your doctrinally sound church offers biblical counseling or you know of a good parachurch biblical counseling ministry you’d like to recommend, please explore the new tab (to see whether it’s already listed) and then add your recommendation to the comments section below.

If you’d like to make a recommendation, please be advised:

•The recommendation must be for a biblical counselor or counseling ministry. Recommendations for Christian counselors, therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, life coaches, etc. will not be accepted.

•The biblical counselor must have been trained and certified by a reputable biblical counseling organization or seminary.

•You must include the website of the church, counselor, or counseling ministry you are recommending. Recommendations not including websites will not be considered.

If you know of any biblical counseling certification training programs or doctrinally sound Christian universities or seminaries that offer degree programs in biblical counseling, check to see if yours is listed, and, if not, recommend away!

Thank you for helping me help hurting women get the resources they need.

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Broken Link Update

Michelle Lesley

Just a quick little note of update…

Remember this? Y’all have been so helpful in letting me know where all my broken links are. Please keep letting me know when you come across one.

I’ve been making my way around the blog fixing those pesky broken links. As of today, all of the links at all of the tabs at the top of the blog are fixed, including each lesson of every Bible study, and all of the articles under the “Popular False Teachers” tab.

I’ve also fixed the articles that get used the most often, including all of the articles in my Rock Your Role series, my Basic Training series, and a couple of discernment articles.

If there’s a particular article of mine that you use often or one you were wanting to share (but were waiting for the links to get fixed), please let me know, and I’ll move those to the top of the “fix it list”.

Don’t forget – if you click on a link and see this error message:

all you have to do is go up to your browser bar and delete the word “books” in the web address (so it says MichelleLesley.com/blahblahblah instead of MichelleLesleyBooks.com/blahblahblah) and it’ll take you right where you want to go.