A Living Tapestry.: Bible Study -rich and glorious and full with hair talk

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Bible Study -rich and glorious and full with hair talk

For those women who have had the opportunity to study the bible with Beth Moore , you will totally understand when I say one word...." hair". She has the most amazing hairstyles ever especially since her dvd series span the decades. In her latest version of Breaking Free she describes how as a little girl she would pull fists full of hair out of her head as she wrestled with anxiety. After this I decided to cut her some slack on the hair front.

I have been fortunate enough to do a few Beth Moore bible studies and am right in the very middle of her first one, the one that launched her bible teaching , Breaking Free. As prepare for the meeting we have with a great bunch of women who love Jesus, I am struck again by the rich way Beth brings God's word alive. I know her style is not everyone's cup of tea, and that is fine. But , for me, Beth has a unique, God given gift to encourage those who study with her to really long for Jesus and to see him as he is in all his glory. She is so careful to point us to God through Jesus and his word. I love this about her. She just loves the Bible and encourages us to get really into the word so that God can work. Breaking Free is by far her favourite for me and I am truly blessed to be studying with Beth Moore again:)

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UnknownOctober 11, 2012 at 1:55 PM
Amen to that Sister. Can we hear a 'Glory?' (Said with as much Texan twang as you can muste)r. I am a huge Beth fan Caryn and have been so blessed by bringing her to the UK. Can you believe that nobody from our church here had heard of her? Because I knew God wanted me to start a bible study here, I started one after we had only been here 3 months. As 'they' did not know me from Adam (and literally, the British probably don't know who Adam is. ha ha), they frantically did the next best thing they could do and that was to find out who the hek Beth Moore was. Classic. I have just started a second course with the UK group - Believing God. It will be my second time of doing Believing God and I am sure I will learn just as much second time round. Can't wait!
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Psalm 139

9 O Lord, you have searched me and known me!  2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
 you discern my thoughts from afar.
 3 You search out my path and my lying down
 and are acquainted with all my ways.
 4 Even before a word is on my tongue,
 behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.
 5 You them me in, behind and before,
 and lay your hand upon me.
 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
 it is high; I cannot attain it.
 7 Where shall I go from your Spirit?
 Or where shall I flee from your presence?
 8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there!
 If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
 9 If I take the wings of the morning
 and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
 10 even there your hand shall lead me,
 and your right hand shall hold me.
 11 If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,
 and the light about me be night,”
 12 even the darkness is not dark to you;
 the night is bright as the day,
 for darkness is as light with you.
 13 For you formed my inward parts;
 you knitted me together in my mother's womb.
 14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
 Wonderful are your works;
 my soul knows it very well.
 15 My frame was not hidden from you,
 when I was being made in secret,
 intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
 16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
 in your book were written, every one of them,
 the days that were formed for me,
 when as yet there was none of them.
 17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!
 How vast is the sum of them!
 18 if I would count them, they are more than the sand.
 I awake, and I am still with you.
 19 Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God!
 O omen of blood, depart from me!
 20 They speak against you with malicious intent;
 your enemies take your name in vain.
 21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord?
 And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?
 22 I hate them with complete hatred;
 I count them my enemies.
 23 Search me, O God, and know my heart!
 Try me and know my thoughts!
 24 And see if there be any grievous way in me,
 and lead me in the way everlasting!