"If you don't know a person's purposes, character, ways, what he or she loves and hates, it's impossible to know the person intimately. And, how can you testify that Jesus is the Lord of your life if you don't really know anything about who He is? If you don't have a close relationship with Jesus, how can you be confident that you can really count on Him when the storms in life crash over you? How can you understand the fullness of the hope He offers you?"
"But what we can know for sure is that from Genesis 1:1 to Revelations 22:21, God's character, plan, wisdom, promises, intentions, and purposes are being revealed to us."
"The second reason we need to start with Scripture--because that is where we learn who Jesus really is and what He is teaching us."
These images were not showing up correctly, on some people's screens, for some reason, so I typed out the text this morning after learning.
Source: Standing Strong: How to Storm Proof Your Life with God's Timeless Truths Written by a man who loves God's people and knows that we can be victorious through life's trials, this is a book filled with the timeless truths of Bible doctrine to help the reader gain stronger convictions for a lasting faith. For the teacher, book provides understandable explanations one can use to answer students' questions and because of that, it is a good book to review before or while teaching others.
