Daily Bible Study Tips

Brief, content-oriented tips help you read and understand the Bible. The study tips range from serious Greek and Hebrew word studies to whimsical comments about life as a Christian. Join participants around the world as we read the Bible together.

Index to Scripture Comments

(Under Construction) Every scripture reference commented on anywhere on this site, indexed by book and chapter.

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Nehemiah leads the rebuilding of Jerusalem's walls. Click to enlarge.

Nehemiah leads the rebuilding of Jerusalem's walls.
From "Bible Primer, Old Testament," Adolf Hult, 1919.
Courtesy Library of Congress and Wikimedia.

Light and Shadow
Contradictions in the Bible?	Fire! Fire!	Joshua Fit the Battle of ... Ai?	The Book of Revelation
The Gospel of Luke	Pool Party	Belief	From Time to Time

*Daniel Outside* the Den**	Sermon Series	Letters from Paul	Biblical Values

A People in Exile	Songs for Summer	Street Signs in the City of God	Gift of the Nutcracker

As It Is Written	Who Is This Guy?	Perfect Sevens	Dead on Arrival

What Must I Do to be Saved?	A Religious Art Gallery	Angels	The Big Lie

Get Ready for Work	Baptism	Playful Appellations	Soup, Soap, & Salvation

The Law is the Law	A Horse of a Different Color	Saints of the Bible	Five Funny Stories

Wonders and Signs	Psalms	Elijah	Map of the Exodus

Who saw the risen Christ?	Chronological Gospel	The Letter of James	Christmas IQ Test

Topical Studies

Reader Questions Answered
In thirty years of Bible study, I've learned the most from the students who ask questions.

Salvation for the Gentiles: A Study of Romans
God is so great that we have to tell the pagans!

Reading the Bible The Way It's Written
Knowing how the writer is using language helps us understand what is being said in the scriptures.

Bumper Sticker Theology
Remembering God's Word in a Cluttered World

God is Love
Praise him, praise him, all ye little children! God is love, God is love.

Gifted
You are among the gifted. What are you going to do about it?

Why Suffering?
The Bible seems less interested in answering the question as in giving us an answer to suffering itself: the divine and human presence of our comforters and friends.

14 "Verses" Not in the Bible
The whole point of the Bible is that God helps those who cannot help themselves.

The Rest of The Story

This is a series of comments to go along with your reading of The Story by Max Lucado and Randy Frazee.

The Law and Sin
The good news and the bad news is that The Law makes us all too aware of our sin.

Righteousness and Redemption
The great news is that God loves us enough to redeem us from sin and death

The UMC Membership Vow What is the Biblical basis for the vows we take when we join the United Methodist Church?

Reading from the Lectionary
Does your pastor preach from the Lectionary? This short study helps you understand the readings.

Heroes of the Faith

Are you heroic? You might be surprised. The Bible considers faith to be one of the most heroic characteristics.

BibleGateway.com's Top 100 + 2 Most-Read Bible Verses

Find out which of your favorite Bible verses are everyone else's favorites, too.

Handel's "Messiah"

Our Advent study for 2012 examined the scriptural origins of the lyrics to "The Messiah."

A Call to Christian Living

The Bible talks more about our behavior than about heaven, end times, or theology. What does it mean to live the Christian life?

Bible Stories for Grownups

The Bible stories we teach to our children are expurgated, abbreviated, and annotated. This topical study takes an adult look at the Bible stories and songs we learned as children.

Singing from Advent to Epiphany

The words to many of our favorite songs for Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, and Hanukkah have a solid basis in scripture. Others ... don't.

The Many Names of God

Scripture uses a lot of different names for the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Each one adds to our understanding of who God is.

Biblical Prayer

An examination of the who, what, when, where, why, and how of prayer, as demonstrated in scripture.

The Character of God

Some of the most important words describing God's character don't mean exactly what we think they mean.

Holy Mothers (and One Unholy Grandmother)

Women have held every important position available in Judeo-Christian history, with the exception of Messiah.

Map of the Holy Land and an Index

From Ashdod to Zidon, it's on the map.

Comments on the Old Testament

Comments on Genesis
Comments on Exodus
Comments on Leviticus

Numbers - Adventures with Moses in the Wilderness

Deuteronomy
Joshua
Comments on Judges
Comments on Ruth
Comments on 1 and 2 Samuel
1 Kings - Early Kings of Israel & Judah
2 Kings - Late Kings of Israel & Judah
Comments on 1 and 2 Chronicles

Comments on Nehemiah and Job
Comments on Esther
Comments on Job
Psalms: Reading the Bible the Way It's Written
Proverbs
Ecclesiastes
The Song of Songs, which is Solomon's

Prophets

Here Am I - Send Me: Comments on Isaiah
The Prophets: Miscellaneous Comments on Jeremiah, Lamentations, Hosea, Amos, Habbakuk, Haggai, and Zechariah
The Prophets: Nahum
The Prophets: Daniel
Three Minor Prophets: Micah, Zephaniah, and Habakkuk
Four Minor Prophets: Haggai, Malachi, Obadiah, and Joel
The Prophets: Primary Message of Pre-Exilic Prophecy
The Prophets: Messianic Prophecy
The Prophets: Prophecy to Other Nations

Prophets without Books:
Elijah
False Prophets

Comments on the New Testament

About this study

This website is a compilation of the brief study tips from an email Bible study begun on January 1, 2007, with five or six readers from one adult Sunday School class at St. John's United Methodist Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was intended to be a single-year Bible study. By December 2 of that year, we had 54 readers, who had learned of the study entirely by word of mouth and who had asked to be included. The pastor at that time, Pastor David, decided that since it was the largest on-going study at St. John's, he wanted it to grow, and several rounds of announcements and sign-ups followed.

Now in its sixteenth year, the email study has grown to an address list of about 120. The readers are from several churches in Albuquerque and (literally) across the nation and around the world; several denominations; and two faiths, Christianity and Judaism. Not too long after the study began, one of the email readers asked a question, which gave rise to longer (sometimes much longer) comments called "Bible Study Supplements - Reader Questions Answered."

When the study began, I had no plan to do anything other than distribute scripture passages to a few friends who wanted to remember to do daily Bible readings. When I put in the first study tip on a passage I knew from teaching to be a little bit obscure, I had no plan to write study tips daily. When I started writing daily study tips, I had no idea that readers would find them valuable enough to print out, share with friends, or save. All this is to explain why the study tips include very few references. Not all of the facts, ideas, and errors in the study tips are original with me; however, since I have learned the facts, integrated the ideas, and continued in the errors for 30 years, finding the references would have taken much more time than writing and emailing the tips. And there seemed to be no call for references. If it turns out that this web site is being used - which remains to be seen - I will try to add references to both old and new study tips as we travel along.

Meantime, don't take my word for what's in the scripture! Don't take your pastor's word, your rabbi's word, your Sunday School teacher's word, or a written reference's word for what's in the scripture. Read it for yourself!

Copyright 2016, 2021 by Regina L. Hunter. All rights reserved.

Opinions expressed on this website are solely those of the author, Regina Hunter, and may or may not be shared by the sponsors or the Bible-study participants. Thanks to the Holy Spirit for any useful ideas presented here, and thanks to all the readers for their support and enthusiasm. All errors are, of course, the sole responsibility of the author.

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