I’ve Heard It Said That the Bible Is God’s Love Letter to Us
Jen Wilkin
“The Bible is God’s love letter to us.” I can see where that’s coming from. It’s not a hundred percent wrong. It’s just that it’s probably not a big enough statement about what the Bible is.
You Must Study the Bible with a Purpose
Jen Wilkin
Every good endeavor should be done with purpose. Without a clear sense of purpose, our efforts to do a good thing well can flounder.
Jen Wilkin Answers Your Questions about Bible Study (Women of the Word Bonus Episode)
Jen Wilkin
In this special bonus episode, Jen Wilkin answers the questions that listeners have sent in about studying the Bible.
Why Bible Study Should Always Lead to Worship (Women of the Word Episode 10)
Jen Wilkin
Jen Wilkin draws all of the ideas covered so far together to remind everyone what the true end of Bible study should be.
The 10th Commandment: Don’t Even Think about It
Jen Wilkin
If contentment has been a losing battle for you, if coveting comfort or cash or companions has been your common state, let the good news sink in: contentment is learned.
Tips to Help Anyone Teach the Bible (Women of the Word Episode 9)
Jen Wilkin
Jen walks through different contexts for teaching the Bible, offering tips and wisdom on how to teach well no matter who or where you are.
10 Bible Study Tools Every Christian Needs (Women of the Word Episode 8)
Jen Wilkin
Jen Wilkin walks through different tools that can be used in the Bible study process and offers wisdom to help know when and how to best use them.
Application: Understanding How Scripture Changes Us (Women of the Word Episode 7)
Jen Wilkin
Jen Wilkin walks through the final stage of the Bible study process: application. She discusses how to know when it is actually time to move into this stage and how to avoid common pitfalls.
Interpretation: Understanding What Scripture Means (Women of the Word Episode 6)
Jen Wilkin
Jen Wilkin talks through what the process of interpretation looks like and gives encouragement for when we find ourselves daunted by the task.
Comprehension: Understanding What Scripture Says (Women of the Word Episode 5)
Jen Wilkin
Jen Wilkin discusses the first of three steps in the Bible study process—comprehension. She walks through how this underappreciated step is a key building block to studying the Bible well.
5 Key Principles for Transformative Bible Study (Women of the Word Episode 4)
Jen Wilkin
Jen Wilkin walks through principles for studying the Bible that are essential to remember in order to get the most out of your time in God's word.
Is There a Wrong Way to Study the Bible? (Women of the Word Episode 3)
Jen Wilkin
Jen Wilkin describes the wrong ways we approach Bible study and what our failed attempts to engage with God's Word reveal about our own attitude toward Scripture.
Overcoming Common Barriers to Bible Study (Women of the Word Episode 2)
Jen Wilkin
Jen Wilkin identifies a handful of perceived obstacles that prevent us from studying the Bible and how we can actually overcome those and take joy in reading and studying God's word.
How Studying the Bible Changed My Life (Women of the Word Episode 1)
Jen Wilkin
Jen Wilkin discusses how believers can learn to study the Bible with both their hearts and their minds and ultimately love the God who it points to.
Let’s Talk about Our Bible Literacy Problem
Jen Wilkin
When women grow increasingly lax in their pursuit of Bible literacy, everyone in their circle of influence is affected.
Our King Has Come
Jen Wilkin
But God’s plan to liberate his people exceeded anything they could have hoped for. He intended liberation from the tyranny of sin itself.
Be Good, for God’s Sake
Jen Wilkin
Generosity is the calling card of all who are recipients of the generous good news of salvation through Christ.
4 Reasons to Let Go and Trust God
Jen Wilkin
We can trust God to manage the future without our help. It is none of our business.
Why Christ’s Relationship to the Law Matters
Jen Wilkin
Christ fulfills the law by obeying it perfectly during his earthly ministry. This is an important detail that's sometimes left out of gospel presentations.
Why the 10 Commandments Are Still Relevant
Jen Wilkin
The law in the New Testament is to show us that in the life of the believer, the law is in fact a means of grace because it shows us what pleases God.
How Delight and Obedience Coexist
Jen Wilkin
The law of God changes when we move from thinking about it in terms of our justification to our sanctification.
We Should Expect Frustration When Reading the Bible
Jen Wilkin
If we give in to impatience with the learning process, we tend to react in one of two ways.
Is All Rest Sabbath Rest?
Jen Wilkin
The practice of remembering the Sabbath requires Israel (and us) to remember what God has ordained for his children from the earliest moments of human existence: a pattern of work followed by rest.
The 5th Commandment Is for Adults Too
Jen Wilkin
The fifth commandment is found in the middle of a list of commands clearly addressed to adults, targeting issues that are, developmentally speaking, primarily the concerns of adulthood.
We Need Both Rules and Relationship with God
Jen Wilkin
To obey the law is to look like Jesus Christ. While legalism builds self-righteousness, lawfulness builds righteousness.
5 Questions about the Ten Commandments
Jen Wilkin
We should love the law because we love Jesus, and because Jesus loved the law.
9 Tips for Making the Most of Your Bible Study
Jen Wilkin
As you read the Bible devotionally, seek to complement this with time in which you also build a basic knowledge of Scripture. Here are nine suggestions to help you make the most of that time.
When Studying the Bible, Don’t Follow Your Heart
Jen Wilkin
We speak often in the church about how Christianity is a religion of the heart. It is right to speak of Christianity in this way, but not exclusively in this way.
Woman: You Will Become What You Behold
Jen Wilkin
If we spend our time gazing only on lesser things, we will become like them, measuring our years in terms of human glory.
7 Things to Avoid When Teaching Women’s Bible Study
Jen Wilkin
When Bible study participants think critically about the Bible, it holds a leader accountable to avoid seven common teaching pitfalls.
Busting the Myth of Human Omnipotence
Jen Wilkin
God’s power is at work within us. It is at work helping us to overcome sin and to grasp the extent of his love for us.
How to Pray When You’re Struggling to Understand the Bible
Jen Wilkin
Prayer is the means by which we implore the Holy Spirit to take up residence in our study time.
The Danger of Wrongful Comparison
Jen Wilkin
The knowledge of God and the knowledge of self always go hand in hand. There is no true knowledge of self apart from the knowledge of God.
How Culture Can Warp Our View of God's Love
Jen Wilkin
Because of the way that our culture tends to think of love, being told God loves you can fail to land on us with the beauty and significance that it should.
The Kind of Love That Marks a Christian
Jen Wilkin
Why does the Great Commandment instruct us to love God first, others second? Because this is the order in which God himself loves.
What Freedom from Sin Looks Like in This Life
Jen Wilkin
It’s natural to feel frustrated that you’re still staring down the same habits of sin in your life.
The Problem with the Self-Help Movement
Jen Wilkin
Sanctification demonstrates that right actions work their way out from the inside and not the other way around.
Sanctification: An Often Painfully Slow Process
Jen Wilkin
We have sin patterns that we battle for years, and we can have the sense that we're getting any better at this re-imaging thing.
10 Things You Should Know about God’s Communicable Attributes
Jen Wilkin
God's communicable attributes show us how to reflect God as Christ did.
Do You Struggle to Discern God’s Will?
Jen Wilkin
Thinking about the will of God is asking a secondary question when there’s a primary question that we need to ask first.
The Better Question Believers Should Ask about God’s Will
Jen Wilkin
For the believer wanting to know God’s will for her life, the first question to pose is not “What should I do?” but “Who should I be?”
Why You Should Make Time to Read the Bible . . . Even When You’re Busy
Jen Wilkin
We make time for many things. But none is so important as the life-giving Word of God.
How to Engage Emotionally with the Bible
Jen Wilkin
Emotions are not a bad thing, but they must arise from accurate thoughts about the truths of Scripture.
3 Tips for Starting a Bible Study
Jen Wilkin
If you're hoping to start a Bible Study, always incorporate these three vital aspects: structure, accountability, and predictability.
The Best Reason to Read the Bible
Jen Wilkin
A lot of people think that the reason they are to study the Bible is so that they can know the Bible well. But when we study the Bible, we always should be coming to an increasing knowledge of God not just the Bible.
Making the Most of Your Bible Study
Jen Wilkin
The more we are tugged, the more we have to work to guard the time we give to personal study of our Bibles.
The Unexpected Outcome of Self-Sufficiency
Jen Wilkin
Do you ascribe something to yourself that is only true about God?
Why Bible Study Should Always Lead to Worship
Jen Wilkin
Anytime we spend time gazing at who God is as he’s described in the Scriptures, we cannot help but be drawn into worship.
Why You Should Study God's Incommunicable Attributes
Jen Wilkin
God’s incommunicable attributes are important for us to understand because they’re the ones that tell us how God is not like us.
Don't Make This Mistake When Studying the Bible
Jen Wilkin
Most of us haven’t spent much time devoting our attention to just things that are true about God.
Why I Wrote a Book about God's Incommunicable Attributes
Jen Wilkin
Most of us have some familiarity with the attributes of God, but we probably haven't spent a lot of time contemplating those things.
Why Our Limits Are a Good Thing
Jen Wilkin
Every boundary that he places in our lives—every limit that he gives us—is for our flourishing.
Why Honeymoons Never Last
Jen Wilkin
It happens sooner or later in every relationship: someone will let you down.
How to Study the Bible with Purpose
Jen Wilkin
How can we begin to be more purposeful in the way we approach Bible study?
5 Ways to Make the Most of Your Bible Study
Jen Wilkin
Here are five ways for women to make the most of the time they have to spend in the Word.
Video: Jen Wilkin on Staying Motivated in Bible Study
Jen Wilkin
In this video, author and Bible study leader Jen Wilkin offers some advice for staying motivated in our reading of God's Word and explains the limitations of topical Bible studies.
Dangerous Bible Study and Puffy Christianity
Jen Wilkin
If all Scripture is God-breathed and profitable, surely there is no such thing as “useless” Bible knowledge. So, why so many warnings that studying the Bible could actually be perilous to our spiritual health?