So it is with scripture. The word of God is there, able to transform your life. But you must probe for it. You have to penetrate the surface with more than just a cursory glance.

In the midst of a generation screaming for answers, Christians are stuttering.

It Bible opens up the doors in your life, and provides a purifying dynamic to help you clean out sin and learn to conform to God's will.

You can control your choices but you can't control the outcome of those choices.

There's an old saying that nothing good happens fast. I don't know if that's altogether true, but it does have some bearing on Bible study.

The genius of the Word of God is that it has staying power; it can stand up to repeated exposure. In fact, that's why it is unlike any other book. You may be an expert in a given field. If you read a book in that field two or three times you've got it. But that's never true of the Bible. Read it over and over again, and you'll see things that you've never seen before.

God is still in the process of dispensing gifts, and He uses ordinary individuals like us to develop those gifts in other people