CyberChapel

chapel (noun): a small meeting place for serious worship and teaching.

(If you are new to Christianity, please start here.)

"The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it" (Ps 68:11). This site is possible only because of the vision and dedicated service of several of the Lord's people:

• Francis Quek first suggested that the messages should be recorded for broader distribution.
• Gene Parunak and Ben Richert conceived the vision of delivering the material over the internet
• Gene and Andrea Parunak provided the recording equipment, and continue to finance and support the website
• Dave Nelson and Andrea Parunak master, convert, and manage the audio content.

This page brings together a variety of Bible study notes, position papers, and links of interest to Christian belivers who are led of the Spirit to live individually and corporately according to the patterns and teaching of the New Testament.

New

With the kind permission of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, I have posted two papers that I have found very useful in Bible study.

• One, by Bruce Hollenbach, defines an important but little-known principle of Greek grammar.
• The other, by Robert Longacre, explains how to analyze the structure of paragraphs.

The conversion of the Revelation tapes has been completed! The entire series on the Revelation is now available here. In the will of the Lord, Colossians will be appearing shortly.

For the next six weeks or so, we are interrupting our regular study of Isaiah to focus on several key passages concerning the nature and function of the local church and its meetings. This series will be accessible here.

• This week's message (10/5/2008) (1 Cor 11:27-32, the Lord's Table: Exhortation)

Expository Studies

Doctrinal Studies

• A book-length study of divorce and remarriage in the Bible
• the Lord's Supper,
• the role of Elders in the church,
• the meaning of the command "Let her be covered" in 1 Cor 11:6
• why it is inappropriate to describe our Lord's sacrifice as an atonement
• the function and conduct of Giving in the New Testament,
• the tribulation and the rapture
• references to God's books in the Bible
• the purposes of God's revelation as summarized in Deut 29:29
• a brief outline of guidelines for studying the Bible

Computer-Assisted Biblical Studies

A blog of exegetical examples showing how Bible search software can help in Bible study

Reviews of Bible Study Software, including

• a baseline review of three commercial and three shareware packages in 2003,
• an update of enhanced versions of Libronix and Bible Works a year later.

Scholarly studies on issues of Greek and Hebrew exegesis

A structural analysis of the book of Galatians, using linguistic density plots

A scanned version of Alford's Greek Testament

Bruce Hollenbach's paper on clause subordination in New Testament Greek, a powerful but little-known grammatical principle.

Robert Longacre's paper on paragraph structure, which provides an important tool for analyzing biblical texts at higher levels than just the sentence.

Information on WIBC

Links

Some of these documents are in Adobe PDF. A free reader for these files is available from Adobe.

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