'Grief and grace rose up within me like two giant wrestlers stopping long enough to shake hands. But the greatest of these is love' is mirrored in 1 Thessalonians 1:3: 'your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.' Beth, always honest, seems to sigh as she writes: 'When I'm in a particularly negative mood, three thoughts come to me with those phrases: Faith can be work, love can be a labor, and hope can get long.' A page later she writes something that took my breath away: The famous ending of 1 Corinthians 13: 'now these three remain: Faith, Hope and Love. This study on 1 and 2 Thessalonians starts with this great quote: 'I thought of the wonder of God's Word: the marvel of Scripture etched by the breath of God on the page with every earnest reader in all of human history in mind.'īeth is insightful, romantic, funny, both serious and lighthearted, and also refreshingly transparent. I think she does a great job with the questions she asks (and she's getting better at these questions over time, too) and challenging us to remember personal situations of our own and view them in light of the Scripture.

I love some of her homespun Southern analogies and I love the touch of romanticism in her writing, because it shows her love of God spilling over. Examples that I have seen where she has been accused of being in error are taken out of context or she has fallen in love with a verse and interpreted it in light of her own personal journey - which I think is excusable once in a while, especially since it's plain from her context that she's telling a personal story. She digs deep into the Word because she loves it, because it's God's word and she loves God. I know Beth has come under some criticism for her bible study methods not being spot on with the historical grammatical hermenuetics method, but she does comb through many commentaries and digs frequently into the original Greek and Hebrew. I think I may try to all of her studies eventually. I've also done these workbooks: Believing God, Living Beyond Yourself: the Fruit of the Spirit, When Godly People Do Ungodly Things, Jesus the One and Only and James: Mercy Triumphs. I love Beth Moore's workbooks, ever since my first one 15 or maybe even 20 years ago, A Woman's Heart. May God richly bless you as you grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. We can't blame parents, teachers or friends for what we accept as Truth we are individually accountable for what we choose to believe. Whether it be the minister of a church we have attended all our lives, a friend who seems to know what they are talking about, material published by what seems to be a trusted organization or a delightfully enthusiastic woman who definitely has a passion for the Lord. We must carefully examine what we are presented as 'truth' regardless of who presents the information to us.

There is shame connected in accepting false doctrines as Truth. In 2 Timothy we are told 'Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of God'

I finished the study of 2 Thessalonians using an online Bible commentary and a concordance. The other lessons prior to this one seemed 'okay' other than her major theme for each week seemed to have little or nothing to do with the theme of the chapter we were studying.Īs for the last two lessons in this book, I can't say. She crosses the line when it comes to Biblical accuracy in her lesson/interpretation of 1 Thessalonians Chapter 5. I'm sorry to step on the toes of those who love Beth Moore but she is leading people astray in this one.

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