![]() What attracted me to BSF is that there was no child care. I experienced a great deal of pressure to the point of shaming to ‘volunteer’ for The Childrens Program. I am concerned though that BSF is also changing. My walk and relationship with God has matured more in these 3 years than in my 40 years as a born again believer. I know that we get busy, but God wants us to busy with Him too. I pray before I start, and I started writing down some of the verses that I want to remember. So on an average day I spend about 1 hour on my bible study. I tell my Spanish professor all the time that I don’t even speak English before noon. I am happy to say, that making that time with God at the end of the my day has been wonderful! I’m not a morning person, so I can’t do the before the day starts time with God. I found that I was doing lots of “good” things, but there was a lot of time I could use to spend with God on my BSF study. That is what made me stop and re-evaluate my schedule. She said that when you are writing (typing) you realize that you ran out of space, so you go in and change your font and WALAH! Everything fits! Well, that is kind of what we do with God (not that you do at all, that’s not what I am implying), but we make time for our soccer games, dinner dates, etc…we just keep changing the font, so God’s time gets shorter and shorter, and before we know it, we aren’t spending any time with Him at all. We had a speaker who talked about time management. I loved last week when they were talking about the “light” and how darkness fills our lives at times, and sometimes we don’t even realize it’s happening. I am really enjoying the journey that we are being taken on. Don’t get too frustrated, I did the last study and I was always craming on Sunday evening, but Genesis has been so much better for me. You’re providing a wonderful service and I respect your mature (as in Christian maturity – I’m certainly older than you by a decade or two) perspectives. Just as we can choose to not visit your blog (or close the book so to speak) if we find it conflicting for whatever reasons. Please keep on sharing your interpretations of the readings for our weekly lessons, we’re all here because we choose to be. This week’s lesson (19) is certainly debatable and sure to stir controversy one of the commenters is the author of a book doing just that. Can you tell whether those commenters are “regulars” like me who check in regularly, or signed in for the first time when they left the comment. That said, I’m curious if some of the negative comments are from “trolls”, those waiting to pounce on your interpretations (anticipating them?). It truly is a book subject to multiple interpretations, sometimes just how I’m feeling emotionally and how open I am to hearing Him. ![]() Thank you, you’ve really helped me understand some of the lessons that I’ve struggled. Hi, This is my first year in BSF and more than 30 years since I studied the Bible. Prayers and Blessings to you for your faith. Sometimes I get stuck with my thoughts and think I’m on the right track, so I will come read what you have written and it either kick starts my understanding in to thinking about the passages differently, or confirms what I’ve gotten from the Scriptures. It is so nice to have all the room to put your answers, ideas, and references for each question!!! Then you copy and paste to the word program you use (mine is MSWord) and you can customize from there. It will know the class lesson you are on and give you the option to download the Adult, Children, Mens and Womens lesson. So I download the lesson questions on the BSF site, go to: they you put in your phone number as that is what you are registered by with BSF. I never could squeeze all my thoughts into the small space provided in the printed lesson they give us every Monday night. I have used the “lesson” download feature of BSF for a couple of years now and really enjoy the freedom it allows.
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