Artwork & Photos

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NTmap_jesus_childhoodBible Atlas Online
The Access Foundation makes this series of maps from Bible times available for use in individual and group Bible studies. The maps fall into one of three categories — the Bible setting, the Old Testament era and the New Testament era.

Bible Image Library
still-waterPhotographer Kimberly Johnson Glover, a daughter-in-law of Bible Study Page creator Jack Glover, has shared dozens of Bible-inspired images for use in class books, PowerPoint presentations and other materials. They are free to use for non-commercial products. Some of the images are used on this website.

Bible Lands
sheep_davidpadfieldDavid Padfield traveled to Bible lands multiple times between 1996 and 2009, and he has made his photographs available for use in PowerPoint sermon outlines and Bible class materials. The database includes photos from Egypt, Greece, Israel, Italy, Jordan and Turkey. There are also collections for “lilies of the field,” millstones, trees, and sheep and shepherds, among other topics.

Children’s Bible Story Books
Moses and the Law Exodus 32:15This fantastic collection created by the La Vista church of Christ in Omaha, Neb., features illustrations that are in the public domain and thus free to reprint. The images comes from “The Boys of the Bible” (1905), the six-book “Standard Bible Story Readers” (1920s) and “Treasures of the Bible” (1894), among other works. The collection includes both color and black-and-white images, as well as 17 modern photos from Israel that can be shared.

Free Bible Images
Fiery_FurnaceSix men built this image database in order to fulfill their vision of “a visually accurate journey through the Bible as a resource for teaching all ages — available for free download by anyone, anywhere at any time.” Users from more than 230 countries have downloaded the content, which includes donated illustrations and photos that re-enact scenes from Bible stories.

jesuswalkingonthewaterFree Clip Art Collection
The Bible Revival created this database in part from images in books whose copyrights have expired, including the “Holman Bible” (1890) and “Life Of Christ For Young Disciples” (1899), among other sources. Images may be used for noncommercial purposes if attributed and linked back to the website.
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Audio/Video Studies

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FEATURED CONTENT: Download the Bible in MP3 format

Bible Talk
The West End church of Christ aired 48 episodes of this video series from 2020 through 2022. Sample episodes ranged from “Miracles Jesus Didn’t Perform” as the opener to the final episode, “What Is Hades?”

The Bible in 3 Minutes
The Gooch Lane church of Christ in Madison, Alabama, provides a brief overview of the Bible in this video — from creation to God’s plan for salvation.

Bible Grad
The Bible Grad online study program includes courses on the Bible, the Old and New testaments, and topics like scriptural authority and Bible evidences. The program is a work of the Eastland church of Christ in Louisville, Kentucky, and its evangelist, Scott Beyer.

Bible Illustrations
Philip Williams, the evangelist at the Martinez church of Christ in Georgia, put his talents as an illustrator to use in teaching the gospel by creating this video series. Sample titles include “How to Tell Someone about Jesus,” “How to Read the Bible” and “Why Does a Loving God Let Us Suffer.”

In His Presence
Every year in January, the church at Livingston Avenue in Lutz, Florida, hosts a song service. Audio of the annual service is available from 2012 to the present.

Let the Bible Speak
The Memorial Boulevard church of Christ in Springfield, Tennessee, hosts this program airs every Sunday at 9:30 a.m. on WSGI AM 1100. The audio files are available at The Good Teacher, evangelist Chris Reeves’ website.

Oracles of God
The Haymarket church of Christ in Northern Virginia produced a video series for the Comcast Community Channel. The 15-minute episodes, also available on YouTube, answers questions like “What is the Bible?”, “What is the church?” and “What is sin?”

The Search
Preachers Clint De France of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Shahe Gergian of Clovis, California, produce this expository Bible study on YouTube. Each episode runs about an hour. Topics have included the historical books of the Old Testament, the book of James and a series on how to study the Bible. The show is also on other social media channels and as a podcast.

Truth Factor
Evangelist John Duvall hosts this weekly, live-streaming Bible discussion with fellow evangelists on Wednesdays at 11 a.m. The other participants are Paul Adams, Mike Davis, Brian Haines, Seth McDonald, Eric Reynolds, Thomas Thornhill Jr. and Wayne Welsh.

Voices from the Past and Present
Listen to sermons, classes and radio presentations by the following preachers: Dee Bowman, Melvin Curry, Paul Earnhart, Ron Halbrook, N.B. Hardeman, Homer Haley, Sewell Hall, Ed Harrell, Marshall Keeble, Bob Owen, Franklin Puckett, R.J. Stevens, Robert F. Turner and Foy E. Wallace Jr.

Speakers
— Arthur Ogden
— Eric Reynolds, South Fayetteville church of Christ (Tennessee)

Publishers
— In Search of Truth

Books of the Bible
Jeremiah: The Weeping Prophet (Introduction)
Watched more than 24,000 times, this recording of a Bible class at the Paden City church of Christ in West Virginia kicks off a study of the book Jeremiah. It sets the stage for the study by providing historical context about the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, the latter of which was the focus of Jeremiah’s prophesies.

Disclaimer: A listing on this website is not an endorsement of any specific content as containing truth. Readers should always compare the words of men to the scriptures.

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Bible Debates

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Baptism
Baptizing People in Unscriptural Marriages
— Proposition: The scriptures teach that the apostles refused to baptize a person in a second marriage whose divorce was not for the cause of fornication.
— Participants: Patrick Donahue (affirm) and Floyd Chappelear (deny)
— Place: Chappelear’s Sentry Magazine

Is Water Baptism Necessary?
— Proposition: The Bible teaches that water baptism is essential to salvation.
— Participants: David P. Brown (affirm) and Gene Cook Jr. (deny)
— Place: Chula Vista Church of Christ, California

Church Autonomy
Sponsoring Church Arrangements
— First Proposition: The Bible authorizes the local church to receive an evangelist’s funds from other congregations and send those funds to an evangelist who is laboring in a mission field. This arrangement is referred to as a sponsoring church arrangement.
— Second Proposition: The Bible teaches that the sponsoring church arrangement is a violation of local autonomy and without Biblical authority.
— Participants: Darrell Broking (affirm/deny) and Carey Scott (deny/affirm)
— Place: Internet, six rounds of written debate (July 22-Oct. 19, 1999)

Holy Spirit
Direct Operation of the Holy Spirit
— First proposition: The scriptures teach that a direct operation of the Spirit of God is necessary and sufficient for conviction, conversion and sanctification of man.
— Second proposition: “The scriptures teach that the Word of God is necessary and sufficient for the conviction, conversion, and sanctification of man.”
— Participants: Gene Cook Jr. (affirm) and Don Underwood (deny)
— Place: Chula Vista church of Christ, California (March 26-30, 2001)

Personal Indwelling Of The Holy Spirit
— First Proposition: The Scriptures teach that the Holy Spirit personally dwells in the faithful Christian and not just through the Word of God.
— Second Proposition: The Scriptures teach that the Holy Spirit dwells in the faithful Christian only through the Word of God.
— Participants: Patrick Donahue (affirm/deny) and Tom Bright (deny/affirm)
— Place: Oak Mountain and Montevallo churches of Christ in Birmingham, Ala. (June 25-29, 2001)

Judgment
Can a Loving God Send People to Hell?
— Proposition: A loving God can send people to hell.
— Participants: William Craig (affirm), Ray Bradley (deny), Don Reddick (moderator)
— Place: Simon Frasier University, British Columbia, Canada

Marriage & Divorce
A Critical Review and Defense of Down, But Not Out
— Proposition: The teachings on marriage, divorce and remarriage in Al Maxey’s book Down, But Not Out are inconsistent with the Bible’s teaching on the subject.
— Participants: Darrell Broking (affirm) and Al Maxey (deny)
— Place: Internet, 22 rounds of written debate (April 7-Dec. 27, 2000)
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Bible Characters

Posted on January 1, 2002 by Danny Glover

Pharaoh's Daughter Finds Moses Exodus 2:3-6

Pharaoh’s daughter finds Moses

Bible Characters
Evangelist Joe R. Price authored the character studies here. The selections include a 24-part series on Old Testament characters, an 18-part series on Jesus and a seven-part series on Paul’s missionary journeys.

Bible Men and Women
Get Brian Yeager’s take on Peter and Paul as model Christians, and explore the lives of more than a dozen Old Testament characters. His brief studies examine the lives of Abraham, David, Enoch, Job, Noah, Ruth and others.

Biblical Profiles
This table of 57 characters grades them as “good” or “bad” based on the stories about them from scripture. The profiles cover well-known judges, kings, prophets and major characters in the Bible narrative, as well as a few more obscure characters. The content in the Kids Zone Directory includes “The Story of Jesus” in short blurbs of time.

Concordance of Bible Characters
The Bible Bulletin Board compiled passages about more than 100 characters in the Old and New testaments. The quoted passages are from the New International Version.

Men and Women of the Bible
Craig Roberts and Karl Hennecke produced a one-year study of Bible characters, with the material broken into four quarters — “Adam to Samuel,” “Saul to Nehemiah,” “The Life of Christ” and “The Church Age.” The materials, which include outlines and questions in PDF format, cover lives, times, events and principles of the Bible.

Women in the Bible
This section of the WebBible Encyclopedia is devoted to 188 Bible women mentioned by name. The pages are organized alphabetically and give the meaning of each female name. Cross-references to related characters and Bible passages are built into the profiles.

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Bible Class Materials (Adult)

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Bible Book of the Month
Work your way through seven Old Testament books and three New Testament books using Windell H. Gann’s plan for studying a specific book in a month. The concept calls for posting a “reading sheet” to encourage everyone to read the book and for the preacher to supplement the class with at least one sermon about the book. Gann’s materials serve as a guide for the studies.

Bible Study Workshop
This online collection of Landmark Publications contains material for adult Bible classes, sermon outlines, radio and television presentations, correspondence courses, preacher-training classes, college Bible classes, and many other teaching situations.

Bible Talk
Jeff Asher, who preached at five congregations in Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas between 1980 and 2015, has written several Bible class books for adults and children. The class materials at this site he hosts cover books of the Old and New testaments, specific Bible characters and more. The clearinghouse also includes sermon outlines, church bulletins and Bible debates.

Executable Outlines
The study guides at Mark Copeland’s website cover 30 different books of the Bible, 25 from the New Testament and five from the Old Testament. There are 290 outlines in the guides.

Investigating the Word of God
Gene Taylor’s series features individual study guides for all 27 books of the New Testament. The guides identify key people, places and words, as well as a key passage and lesson, for understanding each chapter of each book. Students from middle school to adult are challenged to answer matching, true/false and discussion questions. Taylor also joined forces with Jeff Asher and David Padfield to create Bible Class Books, a website with a variety of class materials for adults and children.

Life of Christ
Ken Palmer, a member of the church in Middle Tennessee, created this website about Jesus’ life, history and teachings in 1998. In addition to a 13-week class on Jesus’ life, the site includes lists of his parables and sermons, a timeline, and a harmony of the gospels.

Study Guides
The Embry Hills church of Christ in Atlanta compiled a list of 100 study guides and adult Bible class materials. The publications cover everything from books of the Bible and characters like Abraham to topical studies on the beatitudes, Christian character traits, the family and more.

Think on These Things: Brief Bible Studies
In 1974, Gene Frost presented a series of more than 60 brief Bible studies as recorded telephone messages. He later compiled his “Thought for Today” series into this book format for wider circulation. Sample topics include authority, the church, baptism, prayer, anger, patience and discipline.

a_bible_surveyCurriculum
— A Bible Survey (three-year study, Gene Taylor)
— The Bible Series (Eastside church of Christ, Athens, Alabama)
— McKee’s Bible Studies (Aude McKee, compiled by Arthur Ogden)
— Walking through the Bible (one-year study, Windell H. Gann)

Bible Books
Old Testament
— Old Testament Survey (Matt Leverette)
— Joshua (Justin Roberson)
— Judges and Ruth (Justin Roberson)
— Ezra: Coming Together to Do God’s Work (Paden City church of Christ)
— A Study Guide of Selected Psalms — teacher’s edition, student edition and cover page (David Webb)
— A Topical Study of Proverbs (David J. Riggs)
— Studying the Book of Ecclesiastes (David J. Riggs)
— Jeremiah (Justin Roberson)
— Daniel (Joe Shane)
— Minor Prophets (Richard Hall)
— Compilation of Old Testament class books (David Padfield)
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Bible Class Materials (Children)

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Kids Bible Maps
land-of-persiaBible History Online created this database of colorful maps to help children learn the Bible using geography. They can follow the journey of Abraham, the exodus the Israelites from Egypt, the ministry of Jesus, and Paul’s first missionary trip, among others. The maps also help children visualize boundaries of David’s kingdom and of empires like Assyria, Babylon, Egypt and Persia.

Collections
— Bible for Children (stories from the Old and New testaments)
— Bible Class Books
— Bible Comic Books
— Bible Lessons 4 Kidz
— The Bible Revival (clip art)
— Bible Story Printables
— Build Your Own Tabernacle (plans for a paper model)
— Christian Coloring Pages
— Garden of Praise


— Hands-on Bible Teacher
— Kids Sunday School Place
— The Kids Zone (profiles of Bible characters)
— Little Blessings Bible Lessons
— Old and New Testament curricula (David Padfield)
— Sermons 4 Kids
— Sunday School Printables

Social Media
— Children’s Bible Class Teachers (Facebook group)

Disclaimer: A listing on this website is not an endorsement of the content as containing truth. Readers should always compare the words of men to the scriptures.

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Bible Games, Puzzles And Quizzes

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Activities
— Activities Books
— Coloring Pages

Games
— Bible Ball
— Bible Jeopardy
— Bible Trivia (by category)
— Bible Trivia Challenge

Puzzles
— Bible Puzzles for Everyone, Old Testament and New Testament (Jeff Asher)
— Bible Scramble
— Crossword (more puzzles)
— Dody Gibson’s Bible Puzzles
— Puzzlemaker
— Word Match
— Word Search (more puzzles)

Quizzes
— Bible Geography (Brian Yeager)
— Bible Trivia Quiz
— Daily Nuggets from Genesis (Jeff Asher)
— Daily Nuggets from the Gospel of John (Jeff Asher)
— Know the Bible? (software installation required)
— Quiz of the Week (and more)
— Where Did This Verse Come From? (Brian Yeager)

Collections
— Children’s Bible Study

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Bible Versions

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As the best-selling nonfiction book of all time, the Bible has been translated into thousands of versions and languages. These include literal translations (word for word from Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek), dynamic equivalent translations (thought for thought) and free translations (paraphrase).

The best-known versions include American Standard, New American Standard, King James, New King James and New International. With the emergence of the Internet, smartphones and tablet devices, the Bible is even more accessible now. Numerous websites and mobile applications make it easy to compare and contrast different translations.

This list is a good place to start your exploration:

Multi-version Collections
— Bible Gateway
— Bible Study Tools
— Blue Letter Bible
— Olive Tree Bible Software (mobile)
— Online Bible (downloadable)
— The Unbound Bible
— Web Bible

Individual Translations
— American Standard Version (eBible — can be downloaded or copied)
— Geneva Study Bible (first English version, Calvinistic commentary)
— King James Version (contains Apocrypha, various search options)
— The NET Bible (new translation by 25 scholars, includes translators’ notes)
— World English Bible (from American Standard Version)

Multimedia
— The Talking Bible (King James Version, narrated by Alexander Scourby)

Foreign Languages
— Hebrew Old Testament (Masoretic Text)
— The New Testament in the Original Greek (related introduction)
— The Septuagint LXX: Greek and English (incomplete)
— La Santa Biblia (Spanish)

Other
— Douay–Rheims Bible (New Testament, translated from the Latin Vulgate)
— Latin Vulgate (includes verse-by-verse English translations)
— World Wide Study Bible (Bible-related resources linked by passage)

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Brotherhood Websites

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The Internet has made it easy for everyone from elders and evangelists to everyday saints, both men and women, to publish their thoughts about the Bible and religious topics. We will update this index of brotherhood writers as we discover new websites, so please send your suggestions to aircongress@gmail.com.

Alphabetical by last name
bible-website-collage— Jeff Asher (Bible Talk)
— David Baker
— Ed and Patsy Bragwell
— Kris Brewer (In Season and Out)
— Michael and Jeannie Cole
— Mark Copeland (Executable Outlines)
— Rhodes Davis (Godly Youth)
— Patrick Donahue (Doctrine Matters)
— Tim Haile (The Bible Banner)

— Jason Hardin (In God’s Image)
— Gary Henry (WordPoints)
— Gary Hunt (Bible Search)
— Ferrell Jenkins (Bible World)
— Phillip Martin (Gospel Defender)
— Wes McAdams (Radically Christian)
— Allan McNabb (Bible Study Guide)
— Doy Moyer (Mind Your Faith)
— Alex, Arthur and Max Ogden (Ogden’s Bible Resources)

— David Padfield
— David Pratte (The Gospel Way)
— Joe Price (Sword Tips)
— The Good Teacher (Chris Reeves)
— David J. Riggs
— Alan Ritchie
— Steve Rudd (The Interactive Bible)
— Bill Sexton

— Jeff Smelser (New Testament Greek)
— Keith Stonehart
— Richard and Malinda Thetford
— Allan Turner (re:thinking)
— Dene Ward (Flight Paths)
— Ken Weliever (The Preacher’s Word)
— Bob Williams
— Joel Williams (Bible Mirror)
— Steve Wolfgang (Eclectic)

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Bible Reading Plans

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5-Day Bible Reading Program
Work your way through the entire Bible or New Testament by reading blocks of scripture just five days a week. The chronological approach to the program is designed to make the story of the Bible easier to absorb. Use the checklists to track your weekly progress.

5-Minute Bible
5x5x5-planThe 5 X 5 X 5 plan calls for five minutes a day, five days a week to read through the New Testament. The other “5” represents the ways to dig deeper while reading — underlining key words and phrases, paraphrasing the text, asking and answering questions about it, defining the big ideas, and making personal applications of what you read.

Discipleship Tools
Pick from among several Bible-reading plans here based on your schedule and preferred study habits. The options include a 31-day plan for New Christians, a 90-day New Testament experience and a literary approach that divides the Bible into genres.

Four-Step Plan
Gospel Coalition editor Joe Carter said this plan, based on an article by theologian Fred Sanders, transformed his life. The four steps are: 1) Choose a book of the Bible; 2) read it in its entirety; 3) repeat step two 20 times; and 4) repeat the process for all books of the Bible. Carter recommends starting with shorter books, reading at your normal pace and choosing an appropriate Bible version, among other tips.

English Standard Version
The website for the English Standard Version of the Bible includes several reading plans in multiple formats. Readers can print plans such as “Every Day in the Word,” subscribe via RSS feed or email, or get them on their mobile devices.

Ligonier Ministries
Choose from among more than a dozen Bible-reading plans on this list. Examples include “Every Word in the Bible” (one chapter a day for three years), the Blue Letter Bible Historical Plan (organized as they would have been read in Old and New testament times), and “The Legacy Reading Plan” (emphasizes specific books and chapters each week).

One Year Bible Online
Don’t wait until Jan. 1 to start your annual reading plan. Use the customization tool to set a starting date that begins today, using either the chronological plan or the annual plan that features daily readings from the Old and New testaments, as well as from Proverbs and Psalms. Get reminders via Facebook and Twitter.

Read the Bible in a Year
Print this list to keep your Bible-reading plan simple. It requires you to read a few chronological chapters each day from the Old and New testaments.

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