Category: Biblical Support

This short series of posts during my year-long journey of lessons from The MANual, my NIV Bible for Men, continues with two books on the prophet Jeremiah.  As you read in the Introduction to The Prophets, people who told of coming events in the Bible are generally divided into two groups: “Major” prophets and “Minor” prophets. These “Latter” Prophets each have separate books, where stories of others who also revealed God’s messages (like Abraham, Moses, Samuel, and David) are scattered within the History Books of the Old Testament.  My last post covered Isaiah, who some consider the greatest of all the major prophets. Jeremiah is right up there though since he wrote both the longest book of the prophets, but also provided a second book called Lamentations; both of which I cover in this post.  The Setting After King Solomon’s death, the united kingdom of Israel split into rival northern

In my Introduction to The Prophets, I explained that people in the Bible who foretold upcoming events were generally divided into Former and Latter Prophets. Within the Latter are two groups: “Major” Prophets and “Minor” Prophets. In this post on lessons from The MANual, my NIV Bible for Men, we learn about the first Major Prophet: Isaiah. I will cover another Major Prophet, Jeremiah, along with his second book called Lamentations in another post. I’ll then provide lessons from the remaining Major Prophets: Ezekiel, and Daniel, followed by posts about the Minor Prophets.  Major Means Longer We call the books of the Major Prophets, Isaiah through Daniel, “major” since their books are the longest in length and discuss a variety of topics. The books of the Minor Prophets, Hosea through Malachi, are relatively shorter and their content is more narrowly focused. These naming conventions don’t mean the Minor Prophets were any

This Old Testament section of the Christian Bible is broken down into four main sections: The Books of Moses, The History of Israel, The Books of Poetry, and The Prophets. I continue my year-long journey through the Bible with this post that contains an Introduction to the Prophets. The next few posts will provide lessons from the Prophets based on my resource this year:  The MANual, my NIV Bible for Men. I’ll also return to using the five features (Knowing God, At Issue, Men of The Bible, Myths, and Downshift), as in other lessons and my own summary called the God Buddy Focus.   About Prophets and Prophecy The Prophets are usually among the least popular books of the Bible to read due to their constant warnings and condemnations. Still, there is much we can learn from them. While the primary task of the prophets was to call the people of