Welcome to the Bible Study. I'm Stephen Lawson, president of One Passion Ministries.

And each week I will teach verse by verse through the passage of scripture so that you can better understand the word of God

and put it into practice in your life.

Join me now as we look together into this section of the Bible. I want to make one just quick announcement so that everyone on live stream can

can hear this I'm going to be teaching, hosting two institutes for expository

preaching in August. The first is just outside of Washington, D.C. at Emanuel Baptist Church in Springfield, Virginia,

and I'm going to be covering how to improve your preaching. And so how to improve your preaching.

And so how to improve your introductions,

how to improve your outlining,

how to improve your interpretation,

how to improve your application,

how to improve your illustrations, how to improve your conclusion. your

conclusion, how to improve your conclusion, how to improve using

commentaries, etc.

So interestingly enough for me is most, not most most many of the people who come actually do not live locally like in the DC area

The last one that we hosted I think was in Phoenix we people came from like 18 states got in three countries and got on the

plane and and flew there so as you're watching on live stream, I would love to see you personally in August.

You can go on one passion.org and get the dates.

And then I'm going to be in Oklahoma City at the end of August and doing the same conference and for the guys in this room if any are interested please come up and join with me and if you've been to one of these before this is going to be entirely new material

so it's not going to be a replication of what you've already heard and so it's really just

how to take it to the next level.

It had to be sharper, more focused, more compelling.

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