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About the Tuesday Night Bible StudyWith each study we are looking to see how we can make known the reign of Christ over all things. We believe that this begins by making known the reign of Christ over our own lives. As We come to every text we consider asking this question — how will the Bible here make me better reflect the glory of Jesus? Or to put it slightly more poetically — how will the Word of God make me look more like God the Word? With each study we are teaching. We are teaching believers how to live more simple, separate and deliberate lives for the glory of God and the building of His kingdom. But a funny thing always seems to happen. As we come down the homestretch of each of the studies, the power of the Word seems to appear. We move from teaching to preaching. We move from a dispassionate study of the things of God to a passionate longing for the beauty of God. We go back in time to a living room in western Pennsylvania, and forward in time to the coming of the kingdom. And all along the way we give thanks, for the power of the Word, and the glory of the God who gave it to us. Bible Study ScheduleFor the following schedules, the dates may change from week to week. We will update the schedule here, as well as announce it on our home page news and via email to our regular attendees. If you would like to be on the Highlands Study Center email list, you may call us at 877-878-2238, or email us at info[at]highlandsstudycenter[dot]org. January 13 — February 3, 2009: Pillars of the Reformation We remember the Reformation, but do we truly honor it? If we forget what we fought for, are we not traitors, albeit unknowing ones? In this four part study we will look together that the foundational commitments of our fathers in the faith, considering the sola's of the Reformation. We will look forward and back in time, remembering the biblical foundation of what was won, and our calling to stand firm until He returns. We will be reminded that we too must stand on the Word of God, and do no other, so help us God. January 13: Sola Scriptura We meet at 7:00pm, starting the Bible study no later than 7:15pm Where We MeetWe will be meeting off Rich Valley Road in Abingdon, VA. Plase call or email for directions. History of ...Eutychus, Quisp Cereal and the Word of God.
It all started with a living room, pajamas, and cereal. At least from the perspective of a six year old. When the Ligonier Valley Study Center began over thirty-five years ago, it began in my living room. Students would come from hours around to hear my Father expound the Word of God. The living room separated our den and our kitchen. If I wanted a bowl of cereal while watching the television before bed, I had to traipse through those lounging, long-haired disciples of Jesus to get to it. Jim Thompson, whose family had been friends with our family before the study center started, would be in the kitchen, hunched over his reel-to-reel machine, getting it all down on tape. Twenty-five years later, thankfully without pajamas, though sadly without cereal, I was in my own living room, hosting the first Bible study put on by the Highlands Study Center. I came to southwest Virginia equipped with a vision, and a mail list of 300 families who supported Ligonier, and who lived within fifty miles of my home. In August 1996 I sent out an invitation. In September, we met for the first time. That first study looked at the book of Joshua. I wanted us to consider our own calling to go and take the land, to make known the reign of Christ over all things. Our attendance ranged from twenty to fifty through that first study. Many of those who came became a part of the core group of what would become Saint Peter Presbyterian Church. (That was one of our goals, and the main reason we chose to meet on Tuesdays. We did not want to compete with the Wednesday evening meetings that are still an important part of the evangelical church, at least in the south.) We enjoyed good coffee, good brownies from time to time, and good conversation.
Over the years we have met in a number of different places — several different homes and several different church buildings. We have had many different men hunched over several different recording systems. We have met again in my new living room in the house we moved into a few years ago. My children have grown older, and my hair has grown thinner. What hasn't changed is our goal. With each study we are looking to see how we can make known the reign of Christ over all things. We believe that this begins by making known the reign of Christ over our own lives. As we come to every text we consider asking this question — how will the Bible here make me better reflect the glory of Jesus? Or to put it slightly more poetically — how will the Word of God make me look more like God the Word? With each study we are teaching. We are teaching believers how to live more simple, separate and deliberate lives for the glory of God and the building of His kingdom. But a funny thing always seems to happen. As we come down the homestretch of each of the studies, the power of the Word seems to appear. We move from teaching to preaching. We move from a dispassionate study of the things of God to a passionate longing for the beauty of God. We go back in time to a living room in western Pennsylvania, and forward in time to the coming of the kingdom. And all along the way we give thanks, for the power of the Word, and the glory of the God who gave it to us.
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