My name is Jeff, I was born in 1964, became a Christian in 1984 through reading the book of John and am happily married.

Our real idea of God may lie buried under the rubbish of conventional religious notions and may require an intelligent and vigorous search before it is finally unearthed and exposed for what it is.

–A.W. Tozer, Knowledge of the Holy

This is the process I’m going through now and may be for the rest of my life. There are so many “conventional religious notions” as Tozer puts it that I have taken for granted. I’m now in the process of carefully going through the New Testament (and later on at least part of the Old Testament) with the help of commentaries to see what’s true and what’s false. For what’s true I want to know Scripture to back it up. And I’ve gotten to the point that whenever I hear something dealing with theology, a person’s opinion or even hearing or reading a verse of the Bible in isolation, I need to look into it. (Acts 17:11)

More importantly I want to know God better through reading His letter to us. How fascinating and unending this is. It’s not just reading and gaining knowledge, it’s having the Creator as a teacher revealing Himself to us.

The faithful pastor, and all other faithful believers, love to learn God’s Word because they love the God of the Word.

–John MacArthur

There are obviously many other facets to our spiritual life like prayer etc. This blog focuses on studying the Bible through reading it, books and commentaries about it and various articles and blogs found on the internet.

If nothing else I’d like to keep a record for myself of what I’m learning. If a couple of other people can benefit that would be great. If others can help me through their comments that would be even better. I don’t know any Greek or Hebrew, I’m not a scholar or an author and I don’t know any scholars on a first name basis as many other biblio bloggers do.

I’m reformed of some sort if that makes any difference to you.

How these two sides of God’s truth—His sovereignty in choosing us (Rom. 9) and our responsibility to confess and believe (Rom. 10)—reconcile is impossible for us to understand fully. But Scripture declares both perspectives of salvation to be true (John 1:12-13). It’s our duty to acknowledge both and joyfully accept them by faith.

–John MacArthur

P.S. As much as I know you’d love to see pictures of my cats or know what I did over the weekend, I won’t be posting those things. Sorry!

If for some strange reason there is anything else you’d like to know, feel free to ask.