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Chronological Bible Group at GracePoint Wesleyan Church, Brookings, SD

Our Purpose, Goals, and Philosophy:       We are from a Sunday school class. We suggest that one's study of the Bible should include chronological (time) order study of the events and information. We further suggest that a chronological study will help lessen confusion, especially with events of the Old Testament. Also it allows one to compare the events of the Gospels.
     We are also looking to equip and encourage people to lead others in chronological sudy of the Bible.
     We also looking for input on how to do the above more effectively.
     We estimate we are at less than ten percent of accomplishing our goals. If we find someone who has already done what what we plan; we plan to note their efforts and stop work on our reduntant efforts.
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Some Features We're Noting about the Chronological Life Application Study Bible

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  • Life Application in the name is carried out by the many footnotes, tables, etc. that tell the relevance of the Bible to one's own life as well as many of these features pertaining to history, etc.
    • The Life Application approach increases ones faith rather than diminishes it as some treatments of Bible history do
  • The chronological ordering helps to make sense of the historical aspects of the Bible
    • The two graphs side by side at the right show how the books of the Bible are put in time order and that some of the books are divided up so verses of various books that deal with the same topic are placed together.
    • Section Introduction Bible Content
      Beginnings pages 2 to 4 pages 6 to 25
      God's Chosen Family pages 26 to 29 pages 30 to 133
      Birth of Israel pages 134 to 139 pages 140 to 329
      Possessing the Land pages 330 to 335 pages 336 to 427
      United Monarchy pages 428 to 433 pages 434 to 683
      Splintered Nation pages 684 to 695 pages 696 to 1089
      Exile pages 1090 to 1093 pages 1094 to 1143
      Return & Diaspora pages 1144 to 1149 pages 1150 to 1249
      The Time Between the Old & New Testament pages 1250 to 1252
      Jesus Christ page 1254 to 1269 pages 1270 to 1501
      The Church page 1502 to 1511 pages 1512 to 1833
      Section introductions have map, timelines, etc to aid the reader
    • Contents and Data for Chronological Life Application Study Bible is a page that leads into a complete (but probably with some errors) listing of all verse groupings with their topic headings of the topic
  • Many footnotes, maps, tables, timelines, etc. to aid the reader
  • More Features
    • Canonical Table of Contents page ... A8 -- "index" to verses listed in Canonical (standard Bible order) to cross reference into this Bible's listing of verses chronologically
    • Features of the Chronological Life Application Study Bible ... A17
    • A Chronological Survey of the Bible ... A23 -- Eleven page summary of Bible history
    • Complete Biblical Timeline ... A34 -- less detailed in some ways and more detailed in others than timelines at start of sections
    • A Christian Worker's Resource ... 1835 -- tips on leading others to Christ, Bible study and teaching, etc.
    • The Bible Book-By-Book ... 1835
    • Master Index ... 1825 --
    • Features Index ... 2039 --
      • Index to Charts ... 2039
      • Index to Maps ... 2041
      • Index to Personality Profiles ... 2042
      • Index to Archeological Notes ... 2043
      • Index to Illustrations ... 2044
    • NLT Dictionary/Concordance ... --
    • Full Page Maps NOTE:-> The following maps are at the end of this Bible. The page numbering was omitted from these pages. The page numbers listed are a continuation of the numbers from the Dictionary/Concordance.
      • Topography of Palestine … 2169
      • World of the Patriarchs … 2170
      • Exodus from Egypt … 2171
      • Twelve Tribes of Israel/Conquest of Canaan … 2172/3
      • United Kingdom/Divided Kingdom … 2174
      • Assyrian and Babylonian Empires/Greek Empire … 2175
      • Old Testament Jerusalem/New Testament Jerusalem … 2176
      • Roman Division of Palestine … 2177
      • Ministry of Jesus … 2178/9
      • Paul's Missionary Journeys/Paul's Journey to Rome … 2180
      • Roman Empire and Spread of Christianity … 2181
      • Biblical Calendar … 2182
      • The Temple in New Testament Times … 2183
      • Israel and the Middle East Today … 2184
  • The ISBN 9781414339276 is for the hardcover NLT version. The NLT version also comes in more deluxe covers. Also there is a King James Version.
  • Tyndale House Publishers (http://www.tyndale.com) page for this Bible is http://chronolifeapp.com
 

Graphs showing order of Bible Books in Chronological Life Application Study Bible


Old Testament
New Testament
Red dashes pages where books of Bible are text. Green dates taken from timeline dates in margins.

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Sample of entry from Contents and Data for Chronological Life Application Study Bible
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Overcoming reluctance to lead a study, attend a study, and do self study.
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Teaching Resources

Reading Plans

Commentary on Topics

A few commentary items are in the works but are not yet ready for posting

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Other Resources

    http://www.biblegateway.com Allows one to type in a verse or range of verses and selection the translation version and one will get the text. Also can be used as a concordance.
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Our Projects at GracePoint

  • Classes
    • "Read Through the Bible in a Year" started in about 2000.
    • Available to offer suggestions on identifying shorter term studies on a section of the Chronological Life Application Study Bible
  • Distributions of the Chronological Life Application Study Bible
    • started distribution to graduating college seniors in 2013
    • planning distribution to graduating college seniors in 2014
    • make available at the Welcome Center
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Our Projects Outside Our Church
Our Banner for LifeLight 2014

Our sandwich board at LifeLight 2013
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What's New & What's Planned:

What's New:

What's Planned:

  • record and present the outline headings of the Chronological Life Application Study Bible (NLT version). (entered)
  • record and present the date in time dots on the pages of the Chronological Life Application Study Bible (NLT version). (entered and placed on "Daigram of chronological verse placement")
  • presentation of the Chronological Life Application Study Bible (NLT version) to GracePoint's graduating high school seniors. (did 2014)
  • presentation of the Chronological Life Application Study Bible (NLT version) to GracePoint's graduating college seniors. (did 2013 and 2014)
  • identify and create material to supplement the Chronological Life Application Study Bible
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Our History:

     Before stating that our founder was born in a log cabin built with his own hands I probably should check a little more on details.
    Actually our story is a lot like the story about Everybody, Nobody,Somebody, and Anybody mentioned in the Overcoming reluctance to lead a study, attend a study, and do self study. section.

     Up to September 2013 the class used an earlier version of the Tyndale chronological Bible shown at the right. This chronological Bible was just the text of the Bible divided into 365 daily readings. Outside of giving possible dates for events, it offered none of the footnotes, maps, timelines, section introductions, etc. of the version currently used.
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