Bible Themes

All Christians and sinners should understand that the whole plan is complete. They should understand that the whole of Christ—his character, his work, his atoning death, and his ever-living intercession—belongs to each and every person and simply needs to be accepted. There is a full ocean of it.

God speaks to us through the Bible. That book embodies his words. Creation itself is the visible embodiment of his power and wisdom. It is the result of his words. This book of his is, in a different way, the effect of his speaking. It is his written wisdom and power. There is his voice to us. The thunder and tempest are his loud voice of grandeur. The sunshine and the gentle breeze are his still small voice. But deeper, clearer, keener, softer, and still more penetrating than all of these is his written word to us.

W.I.N. in Life as You Study and Apply God's Principles from the Fourth Quarter 2024 Adult Sabbath School Lesson Titled, Themes in the Gospel of John! Every quarter, the Seventh-day Adventist Church publishes The Adult Sabbath School Bible Study Guide (Quarterly) for members and guests to study, worship, and grow together in what they call a global classroom. I love this! I'm so enriched by this concept that I host a daily program, Your Daily Portion, broadcast on many online platforms and hundreds of radio stations worldwide. The program unpacks the quarter's blessings; you can call me a ...

Denominations from evangelical to mainline continue to experience deep divisions over universal social issues. The underlying debate isn’t about a particular social issue, but instead it is about how we understand the nature of scripture and how we should interpret it. The world’s...

Moving beyond facts to experience the fullness of God Theology is a conversation about God. One that invites us to experience God in all His fullness rather than just memorizing facts about God. Theology is not some academic subject to only be pursued by professors and seminarians. Theology is...

52-Week journey through NLT™ Bible to strengthen Women’s faith This refreshing approach to New Living Translation® (NLT™) Bible study for women combines a daily reading plan with weekly reflections to explore how God’s Words can be applied to your daily life. Geared more towards modern working women. Theme-based reading – NLT™ Bible verses for a week are related to the theme for that particular week. E.g., Pardon from sin, Blessing of Obedience Weekly reflections – These reflections allow each person to think deeply about each passage and how they relate to their lives. ...

Living God's Word is your pathway to read the Bible as it was meant to be read: as God's Great Story. Many Christians resolve to study the Bible more fervently, but often struggle to grasp the progression of Scripture as a whole. They encounter various passages each week through unrelated...

For nearly a century, Christianity in the Western world has appeared to be in steady decline. Sanctuaries thinned, cultural influence waned, and many faithful believers quietly wondered whether the Church had entered a long season of exile—not unlike Israel’s displacement in Babylon. This book is written from within that tension: honest about loss, yet alert to hope. Drawing on Scripture, history, and lived experience, the author suggests that what we have been witnessing is not simply decline, but pruning. Beneath the surface, something unexpected has been stirring. In recent years, ...

The Bible’s Recurring Themes: Creation, Fracture, and Renewal traces one of Scripture’s most enduring patterns—the story God tells again and again because we need it again and again. The Bible begins with goodness. God creates the world as gift, calling it very good before it ever proves itself. Yet trust fractures. Humanity doubts God’s goodness, and what begins as mistrust spreads into shame, violence, and broken relationships. Still, God does not abandon what He loves. He restrains destruction, calls His people to return, binds Himself in covenant, and patiently works toward ...

Promises Made, Promises Kept — The Faithfulness of God traces one of Scripture’s most enduring and comforting themes: God speaks, God waits, and God acts—always faithfully, often slowly, and sometimes in ways we never expect. From the opening words of creation to the final witness of the Church, the Bible tells a long story of promise and fulfillment shaped by waiting, suffering, obedience, failure, exile, and hope. God’s promises are rarely fulfilled quickly. They are almost never fulfilled easily. Yet they are never abandoned. This study follows that recurring pattern across ...

Law and Grace: Commandments That Guide, Grace That Saves Many Christians live with a quiet tension between Law and Grace—between obedience and mercy, truth and love. Some fear the Law as harsh and condemning. Others cling to grace while quietly dismissing the need for obedience. Scripture, however, never treats Law and Grace as rivals. It presents them as partners in God’s patient work of shaping faithful lives. In Law and Grace, Geoffrey Schmitt (Willingheart) traces this biblical theme from Genesis to the Gospels and into daily discipleship. The Law is explored not as a weapon or ...

Exodus / Deliverance — When God Hears and Chains Fall explores one of Scripture’s most enduring and hope-filled patterns: God hears the cry of the oppressed and makes a way to freedom. From the slavery of Egypt to the wilderness, from exile and return to the Cross and Resurrection of Christ, this study traces deliverance as a recurring theme woven through the entire Bible. Deliverance is shown not as a single dramatic event, but as a faithful movement of God—sometimes sudden, sometimes slow, always purposeful. Along the way, readers encounter honest reflections on fear, waiting, ...

A Theology of Revelation: Audio Lectures taught by J. Scott Duvall provides a comprehensive look at the theology of John's Apocalypse. One of only a few dedicated theologies of Revelation, Duvall's series leaves no stone unturned in the study of the final book of the Christian canon of Scripture...

Our task is to go, to make disciples, to baptize and to teach. To do that job we need strong and confident Christians that know and understand the Bible. In fact, all Christians should all have adequate, accurate and truthful knowledge of the Bible to understand and apply it correctly. These study guides are for anyone who wishes to gain a deeper biblical knowledge and understanding – especially persons who are new to Christianity. The theme of Leviticus is the holiness of God. So, how Israel was to live as a holy nation? Leviticus is as important as all the other Bible books because the ...

A global history of the world’s best-known and most influential book For Christians, the Bible is a book inspired by God. Its eternal words are transmitted across the world by fallible human hands. Following Jesus’s departing instruction to go out into the world, the Bible has been a book in...

Still Waters, Clear Minds is a Bible study guide created for autistic and neurodivergent thinkers who long for faith without overwhelm. Many traditional devotionals move too fast, rely on vague emotional language, or assume one "right" way to connect with God. This book takes a different approach. It slows the pace, respects structure, and meets you where your mind naturally works—with clarity, order, and depth.

This is a history of the King James Version of the Bible over the 400 years from its remote beginnings to the present day and helps to explain the enduring popularity of the King James Version throughout the world today. Gordon Campbell, expert in Renaissance literatures, tells the fascinating and complex story of how this translation came to be commissioned, of who the translators were, and of how the translation was accomplished. The story does not end with the printing of that first edition, but introduces the subsequent generations who edited and interacted with the text. 

Emperor and Galilean: The Complete Drama with Comprehensive Biblical Analysis What happens when Christianity gains power—and loses its soul? Emperor and Galilean is Henrik Ibsen’s most ambitious and least understood drama: a monumental exploration of faith, empire, apostasy, and spiritual authority set against the turbulent reign of Julian the Apostate, the last pagan emperor of Rome. In this newly edited Bible Edition, the complete dramatic text (translated by William Archer) is presented alongside a rigorous, verse-aware biblical analysis that reveals just how deeply Scripture shapes ...

Learn more about the ideas and beliefs key to the teachings of the most widely printed religious book of all time, in this perfect introduction to The Bible, narrated by Mark Elstob. The Bible Book audiobook features breakdowns of some of the most well-known passages ever written from The Bible...

As the work at the heart of Christianity, the Bible is the spiritual guide for one out of every three people in the world. It is also the world's most widely distributed book, having been translated into over 2,000 languages, as well as the world's best-selling book, year after year. But the Bible is a complex work with a complicated and obscure history.