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Knowable Word: Helping Ordinary People Learn to Study the Bible is unavailable, but you can change that!

People with Bibles don’t always know how to use them. They’re good at absorbing and repeating material from sermons, commentaries, and blogs, but they miss the fullness and joy that comes from studying the Bible for themselves. The power to change the world is available, but it goes untapped. This book offers what they most need: a sensible Bible study method. By learning to observe, interpret,...

names of key people and places connected to the book you want to study. For example, when you study First or Second Thessalonians, you can read passages in Acts that mention Thessalonica. You can learn about Old Testament prophets from the narrative books (2 Kings 14:23–27 will acquaint you with the prophet Jonah, for example)—just be aware that different characters might have the same name (like Joseph, Saul, Darius, or Abimelech). Themes and Structure. Mapping the larger structure of a book of the