Infusion Bible eStudies are downloadable small group studies that can be read online, printed, or emailed. Each study includes a leader guide and a study guide and is suitable for a one-hour group Bible study.
Listen...to the words of the Scripture, and in them discover God's message for you today.
Look...at a brief verbal snapshot from the scrapbook of contemporary life and discover its connection both to you and to the Scripture passage.
Live...inside the Scripture to discover its context and message; then allow the Scripture to come alive in you and cause you to live out your faith in new and more-effective ways.
Read an excerpt from this study below.
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Yesterday the radio announcer introduced his next selection by saying that the composer had died “at the ripe, old age of” and he named what happens to be my age. I was startled to hear that I am ripe; this sounded as if at any moment I might drop from life’s tree.
But then I began to ponder how good it is to have lived long enough to have some perspective. I was a teenager during the Great Depression. We were poor enough that maintaining the coal bin in Iowa winters was a serious matter. We never missed a meal, but neither did we eat balanced meals. We simply ate what was available. Then as a civilian I experienced World War II, with rationing of sugar, gasoline, tires, and a variety of other items, to say nothing of those products that simply disappeared from store shelves for the duration of the war. Now I live in the period when television makes every political movement or natural phenomenon a shattering crisis.
So what do I know as a “ripe,” old man? I know I am profoundly grateful for the security I have found in Jesus Christ and for the foundation it has given me—whatever the times—for faithful living.
