There are many schools in our world today that can offer you a great education and prepare you for some sort of service. Having an education from a secular university I know what it is like to be trained in a certain field, studying theory for four years and then having to gain practical knowledge on your own. For years, I thought that this was the way that a person learned a profession and became a professional. While visiting Chisinau, Moldova I was introduced to the Inductive Bible study Institute. There are many advantages of the Inductive Bible study Institute that I would like to share using three main advantages as a guide, being that the Institute teaches you how to study the Bible, how to teach the Bible, and how to work in a team.
It has been said that efficient leaders are not born, they are made. The Institute teaches you how to become an efficient leader. There are many leaders in this world today and there have been many but there are few effective ones. One’s effectiveness will be seen by his results and the results of the Institute speak for themselves. In order to be efficient in the ministry one needs to be trained in how to study the Word of God because It is the guide for effectiveness. The Institute teaches you how to study the Word of God systematically, giving you structure and Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Erik Brewer 
This lesson on common sense deals with a subject that causes most people to loose their common sense. There are several heresies that go along with the sexual relationship and for the sake of time we will cover only a couple of them. If these ideas exist in your thought process about sex then I am sorry to inform you that you lack common sense. The great thing about common sense is that it can be learned.
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The way that we view money and possessions shows whether or not we have or lack common sense. In other words, the ways that we seek financial gain are a great indicator of our relationship with God. As we have earlier established, common sense is a direct result of having a relationship with God, being taught by Him through His Word. In this article I want to take a look at the wise man Solomon’s 11th Proverb, or wise teaching.
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I had a unique experience a few weekends ago as I traveled with a group of college students to minister at a half-way house for men who recently were released from prison. The men who come to this place must stay for a year, learning day by day how to integrate back in to society. One of the prerequisites for being there is that they have to be born again Christians, so they are all open and willing to share about their new lives in Christ as compared to how they were before going to prison. They do Bible study together and get jobs and work like all good citizens of society. The group that I went with just went to do some service work, cleaning and repair work. As we cleaned and worked we were able to interact with the men there, getting to know them and hearing their stories. As I talked with person after person I began to see a pattern in their lives. Each one was abused in some way as a child, mostly sexually. This abuse profoundly affected them every day of their lives before becoming born again Christians. As they grew older and began to get in trouble with the law things just got worse. Each man said the same thing, “I knew what I was doing was wrong but I had no where to turn for help since everybody around me was also bad.” One young man who 
When you talk to parents today it seems like their number one desire for their children is to make things better for them financially or materially speaking than when they were growing up. Parents seem to focus so much on this that they seem to forget about the importance of protecting them from evil and in many cases the parents are the ones who put their children in harms way by bring the children face to face with evil. For example, 
There is a popular idea that is spreading all over the world today in the area of teaching children. The modern idea is that you let your children do what they want, learn what they want, and choose whatever pleases them. As parents, we are to be their friends, feed them, clothe them, and give them shelter, while at the same time, letting them 
Disciplining children is a hot topic in our day and time. Many people have many different opinions on how to do it and how not to do it. The belt and paddle are looked at as things of the past, archaic. Of course, the Bible teaches people how to have common sense in the area of disciplining children. The Bible speaks a lot about how to discipline, but more importantly, the Bible explains the reasons for it and the consequences of not do it. There is a saying in physics that goes like so, “things in the universe go from order to 
We live in a world where the majority of young people do not think about the future (their future or the future of others) and they live for themselves by living for the moment. They listen to music with words like, “if it feels good then do it”. They are constantly bombarded with this message from every angle, because of the evil that is portrayed in the mass media. Many of the young people today lack common sense because of this live for yourself alone attitude. In this article I would like to examine the life of a young man who had common sense and because of his 
In this article I would like to continue our look at common sense and specifically how it is manifested in people’s lives, either its presence or its absence. In the wise man Solomon’s tenth proverb we see the comparison/contrast method used in order to teach us the complete differences in those who do have common sense and those who do not have it. Solomon compares and contrasts the two by calling the one who has common sense a wise person while the one who lacks common sense is mentioned as a fool. I like how specific and concrete the Word of God is. God uses contrasts such as 
