Start Your Engines

Here is a copy of part of the email I sent to those of you who are signed up for the study. I include it here for those of you who haven't signed up but know about this URL. Know that emails will be used for the logistics and the blog will be used mostly for discussion and instruction. Feel free to post questions in your comments if they are designed to spark discussions. If they are more logistical questions feel free to email me. Here's the email:



Alright,

We're just about ready to get started with the study. Thank you for your patience.

I already mentioned the eSword and iTunes ways to get deeper into this study (both of which will require free software downloads) and I've been skimming the internet for easier ways to get commentaries and sermons for those of you who are hesitant to get either of those. Here is a link to a decent commentary that you don't have to download anything for. Just look it up online and read it straight from your browser if you want:

http://www.easyenglish.info/bible-commentary/nehemiah-lbw.htm

And the sermon audio by Allistair Begg can be downloaded without iTunes by going to this next link and clicking 'download audio' next to each sermon title. There are two volumes so for those of you who choose this method there might be more stuff to get later on. All these downloads are safe, free, and will take hardly any space at all.

http://www.truthforlife.org/resources/series/gods-work-gods-way-volume-1/

Again, the only things you really need is a Bible and diligence. The only reason I'm hawking these other resources is to allow those of you who have never used them to get used to them and to show you really how deep and interesting these studies can be. A lot of the resources we have today as students of the Word are much easier to acquire than they were ten years ago. And they're free instead of hundreds of dollars that they used to cost.

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Also, I created a profile that will be open to anyone who wants to use it to participate in the study but doesn't want to create a profile for themselves. It should be in the email I send you all and if you didn't receive the email let me know.

Start reading Nehemiah chapter 1 in order to be ready for us to start this week.

Peace.