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The Bible in Small Steps

The Bible in Small Steps

著者： Jill from The Northwoods
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The Bible in Small Steps is a gentle, chapter-by-chapter walk through Scripture for anyone who wants to understand the Bible without feeling rushed or overwhelmed. Each episode lingers over a single chapter or passage, taking time to explore its meaning, historical setting, and place in the wider story of God’s Word. Rather than hurrying ahead or pulling verses out of context, the show moves at a steady, thoughtful pace—inviting listeners to slow down, listen closely, and grow in understanding one small step at a time.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ キリスト教 スピリチュアリティ 聖職・福音主義
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  • Revelation 2 - Abandoned Your First Love?

    Revelation 2 - Abandoned Your First Love?
    2026/07/17
    What does Jesus actually think of individual churches? Revelation 2 answers that with four real, historical congregations — Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, and Thyatira — each getting a letter that names exactly what they’re doing right and wrong.Ephesus: Hard Work Without the LoveEphesus gets real commendation — hard work, doctrinal discernment, patient endurance — and one precise rebuke: they’ve abandoned their first love. The warning is severe: repent, or the lampstand gets removed. (There is, notably, no Church of Ephesus today — it was destroyed by earthquakes and never rebuilt.)Smyrna: Poor, Persecuted, and RichSmyrna is one of only two churches (with Philadelphia) that receives no rebuke at all — just honest acknowledgment of real poverty and persecution, alongside the promise that they are genuinely rich and will receive the crown of life.Pergamon: Faithful Under Pressure, Compromised WithinPergamon held firm against external threats — even martyrdom — while quietly tolerating false teaching inside the church. Christ finds internal compromise just as serious as external persecution.Thyatira: Jezebel and a Church That Tolerated Too MuchThyatira receives the longest letter of the seven, full of real commendation for growing works — but tolerates a false teacher symbolically named Jezebel, echoing the Old Testament queen who promoted Baal worship.Three Ways to Read the Seven ChurchesJill lays out three interpretive frameworks: these are literal churches addressing real, specific circumstances; they represent diagnostic “types” of churches across all eras; or (a view her own church doesn’t hold) they represent sequential ages of church history, ending in a “lukewarm” modern era.The pattern across all four letters: Christ knows these congregations by name and by works. He’s not addressing abstractions — he’s walking among real churches, in their real strengths and real failures.Download blank templates, schedules here:https://schmern2.notion.site/Downloads-Template-Word-and-Excel-Schedule-67439d14449d4c20bfe00efe069f78b8Logos RAMPS Workflow - RAMPS Bible Study - The Bible in Small Steps in Logos WorkflowsJill’s Linkshttps://jillfromthenorthwoods.com/https://www.youtube.com/@smallstepswithgodhttps://www.buymeacoffee.com/smallstepspodhttps://twitter.com/schmernEmail the podcast at jill@startwithsmallsteps.com“Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. The ESV text may not be quoted in any publication made available to the public by a Creative Commons license. The ESV may not be translated in whole or in part into any other language.”Scripture quotations marked CSB have been taken from the Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2017 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. Christian Standard Bible® and CSB® are federally registered trademarks of Holman Bible Publishers.“The Scriptures quoted are from the NET Bible® http://netbible.com copyright ©1996, 2019 used with permission from Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. All rights reserved”.Bible Maps and images used with permission from https://www.bible.ca/maps/ or https://www.freebibleimages.org/illustrations/bj-ot-world/Copyright 2014 Faithlife / Logos Bible Software. Free for non-commercial use by individuals or organizations. May be presented before live audiences; may be posted on social media; may be re-distributed. May not be used commercially. May not be modified or included in published works without permission; contact permissions@faithlife.com. Attribute as: “Copyright 2014 Faithlife / Logos Bible Software ()”.By choosing to watch this video or listen to this podcast, you acknowledge that you are doing so of your own free will. The content shared here reflects personal study, faith perspective, and opinions and is intended for informational and inspirational purposes only. I am not a licensed pastor, seminary-trained theologian, or biblical scholar. Any scriptural interpretation, commentary, or reflections offered should not be considered a substitute for guidance from your own pastor, church body, or faith community. Theological understanding is a lifelong journey — I encourage you to study alongside your own tradition and trusted spiritual leaders. You are solely responsible for any decisions or actions you take based on this content.
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    39 分
  • Revelation 1 - The Vision of Christ

    Revelation 1 - The Vision of Christ
    2026/07/15
    Is there any book in the Bible that creates more anxiety than Revelation? This episode starts where the book itself starts: not with predictions and beasts, but with one of the most magnificent visions of Christ found anywhere in Scripture.What “Revelation” and “Apocalypse” Actually MeanBoth words simply mean an unveiling — a genre of disclosure, not obscurity. This is the revelation of Jesus Christ, not primarily a revelation of the end of the world.The Chain of RevelationGod gave the revelation to Jesus Christ, who made it known through an angel (or messenger) to John, who faithfully recorded what he saw. It’s meant for public, communal reading — not a private puzzle to decode alone.“The Time Is Near”This phrase signals urgency running through the whole book, and it can point to multiple things at once: imminent persecution, the temple’s coming destruction, and the end times — the same way birth pangs cycle in intensity rather than pointing to one single moment.Christ’s Greeting: Alpha and OmegaJohn greets the seven churches with language drawn from Exodus 3:14 — the one who is, who was, and who is coming — establishing God’s complete sovereignty over time, past, present, and future.Exiled on PatmosJohn identifies himself as a “brother and partner in tribulation,” writing from exile on Patmos because he refused to worship Caesar. He’s not writing from a place of safety — he’s suffering alongside the very churches he’s addressing.The Vision of ChristWhite hair like the Ancient of Days, eyes like fire, feet like bronze, a voice like roaring water, and a sword from his mouth — dense with Old Testament imagery from Daniel. John falls like a dead man, and Christ’s first words are tender: “Don’t be afraid. I hold the keys to death and Hades.”What the Symbols MeanThe chapter closes with Christ’s own interpretation: the seven stars are messengers or leaders of the churches, and the seven lampstands are the churches themselves — meant to broadcast Christ’s light, not generate it on their own.Download blank templates, schedules here:https://schmern2.notion.site/Downloads-Template-Word-and-Excel-Schedule-67439d14449d4c20bfe00efe069f78b8Logos RAMPS Workflow - RAMPS Bible Study - The Bible in Small Steps in Logos WorkflowsJill’s Linkshttps://jillfromthenorthwoods.com/https://www.youtube.com/@smallstepswithgodhttps://www.buymeacoffee.com/smallstepspodhttps://twitter.com/schmernEmail the podcast at jill@startwithsmallsteps.com“Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. The ESV text may not be quoted in any publication made available to the public by a Creative Commons license. The ESV may not be translated in whole or in part into any other language.”Scripture quotations marked CSB have been taken from the Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2017 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. Christian Standard Bible® and CSB® are federally registered trademarks of Holman Bible Publishers.“The Scriptures quoted are from the NET Bible® http://netbible.com copyright ©1996, 2019 used with permission from Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. All rights reserved”.Bible Maps and images used with permission from https://www.bible.ca/maps/ or https://www.freebibleimages.org/illustrations/bj-ot-world/Copyright 2014 Faithlife / Logos Bible Software. Free for non-commercial use by individuals or organizations. May be presented before live audiences; may be posted on social media; may be re-distributed. May not be used commercially. May not be modified or included in published works without permission; contact permissions@faithlife.com. Attribute as: “Copyright 2014 Faithlife / Logos Bible Software ()”.By choosing to watch this video or listen to this podcast, you acknowledge that you are doing so of your own free will. The content shared here reflects personal study, faith perspective, and opinions and is intended for informational and inspirational purposes only. I am not a licensed pastor, seminary-trained theologian, or biblical scholar. Any scriptural interpretation, commentary, or reflections offered should not be considered a substitute for guidance from your own pastor, church body, or faith community. Theological understanding is a lifelong journey — I encourage you to study alongside your own tradition and trusted spiritual leaders. You are solely responsible for any decisions or actions you take based on this content.
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    33 分
  • Introduction to Revelation: Who Wrote It, and When?

    Introduction to Revelation: Who Wrote It, and When?
    2026/07/14
    Before we open Revelation itself, we need the background: who wrote it, when, and why it took so long to earn its place in the canon. Revelation has a reputation as confusing or frightening — my own first encounter was a terrifying ’70s movie as a 12-year-old — but understanding where it came from changes how we read it.Who Wrote It?Church tradition traces authorship to John the Apostle, through a chain of testimony back to Irenaeus, who knew Polycarp, who reportedly knew John personally. Some ancient scholars noted the Greek style differs from John’s gospel — possibly because a very elderly John dictated it to a companion.When Was It Written?The majority view places it near the end of Domitian’s reign (95–96 AD), a period of intense demanded emperor worship. A minority view favors the mid–60s under Nero, before Jerusalem’s destruction, pointing to internal details like the temple still standing and 666’s numerical link to Nero’s name.Who Was It Written To?The seven churches of Roman Asia (Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, Laodicea) faced real pressure — economic exclusion from trade guilds, social ostracism, and occasionally legal consequences for refusing to worship Caesar.Revelation’s Contested Path Into the CanonUnlike most New Testament books, Revelation’s acceptance was genuinely debated. Early church historian Eusebius couldn’t settle on a single category for it. Objections centered less on authorship and more on how the book’s imagery was being misused to support extreme end-times speculation.A Slow, Uneven AcceptanceThe Western church accepted Revelation relatively early; the Eastern, Syriac-speaking church didn’t include it in standard translations until the 6th–7th century. By the late 300s, regional councils affirmed it as part of the 27-book New Testament — though even Martin Luther expressed reservations, initially placing it in an appendix of his German translation.The history doesn’t undermine the book’s inspiration — it shows how carefully the church weighed what belonged in Scripture. And it strikes me that people were less troubled by the book itself than by how it’s been misused.my predfdfddfDownload blank templates, schedules here:https://schmern2.notion.site/Downloads-Template-Word-and-Excel-Schedule-67439d14449d4c20bfe00efe069f78b8Logos RAMPS Workflow - RAMPS Bible Study - The Bible in Small Steps in Logos WorkflowsJill’s Linkshttps://jillfromthenorthwoods.com/https://www.youtube.com/@smallstepswithgodhttps://www.buymeacoffee.com/smallstepspodhttps://twitter.com/schmernEmail the podcast at jill@startwithsmallsteps.com“Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. The ESV text may not be quoted in any publication made available to the public by a Creative Commons license. The ESV may not be translated in whole or in part into any other language.”Scripture quotations marked CSB have been taken from the Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2017 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. Christian Standard Bible® and CSB® are federally registered trademarks of Holman Bible Publishers.“The Scriptures quoted are from the NET Bible® http://netbible.com copyright ©1996, 2019 used with permission from Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. All rights reserved”.Bible Maps and images used with permission from https://www.bible.ca/maps/ or https://www.freebibleimages.org/illustrations/bj-ot-world/Copyright 2014 Faithlife / Logos Bible Software. Free for non-commercial use by individuals or organizations. May be presented before live audiences; may be posted on social media; may be re-distributed. May not be used commercially. May not be modified or included in published works without permission; contact permissions@faithlife.com. Attribute as: “Copyright 2014 Faithlife / Logos Bible Software ()”.By choosing to watch this video or listen to this podcast, you acknowledge that you are doing so of your own free will. The content shared here reflects personal study, faith perspective, and opinions and is intended for informational and inspirational purposes only. I am not a licensed pastor, seminary-trained theologian, or biblical scholar. Any scriptural interpretation, commentary, or reflections offered should not be considered a substitute for guidance from your own pastor, church body, or faith community. Theological understanding is a lifelong journey — I encourage you to study alongside your own tradition and trusted spiritual leaders. You are solely responsible for any decisions or actions you take based on this content.
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    21 分
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