Keeping Your Balance in Our Religious World: Student Study Guide

By Kenneth L Weatherford

This study guide is for either one person’s study or a classroom; however, even in a classroom it is the individual’s responsibility to develop their relationship to Jesus Christ. In James letter to early Christians, he said, “22But don’t just listen to God’s word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only f

• Language: English
• Publisher: TOPLINK PUBLISHING, LLC
• Release date: Jul 31, 2017
• ISBN: 9781946801500

Kenneth L Weatherford

Born in Seagoville, Texas, Ken went on to college in Nacogdoches, Texas, and then into the Air Force as an Air Rescue helicopter pilot. Thence back to Texas operating a tree care company, then recalled to the military to fly in Europe and other locations in the USA. After that, he taught science for a while before going to work for a major airline as an instructor. He's always had a love of reading and writing and been walking the Christian Walk for over 40 years. From all that, he writes with experience.

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Keeping Your Balance in Our Religious World

- Student Study Guide -

Kenneth L. Weatherford

Copyright © 2017 by Kenneth L. Weatherford.

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

Chapter 1: The Need for Balance

Chapter 2: The Christian Walk

Chapter 3: The Spiritual Twins–Faith and Grace

Chapter 4: Trial, Temptation, or Sin?

Chapter 5: Jesus and Him Crucified (1Cor. 2:2) The Source of Your Salvation

Chapter 6: What is this Thing Called Love?

Chapter 7: What is all this Resurrection Business About?

Chapter 8: Not What But Who is the Trinity?

Chapter 9: What about the Bible – what is it?

Chapter 10: What Is And Isn’t Christian Doctrine? (And Personal Conviction)

Chapter 11: What The Church Of Jesus Christ Is And Is Not

Chapter 12: Agree To Disagree – It Is A Free Country

End Notes

Acknowledgements

During the development of the manuscript for Finding Your Spiritual Balance in a Religious World: Discover Simple Christianity, the thought occurred to me and was reinforced by those who proofread the manuscript (and since then, those who have read the book) that this would be a good candidate for use in Bible study, Sunday School/Discipleship classes, or home church. Carol Langen, a friend and retired teacher especially encouraged me to make it possible to have materials for a class on the book and has been teaching a Rediscovering Simple Christianity class using the book and the draft for this study guide. I want to thank all of those individuals: family and friends who not only gave me encouragement for the book, but for expanding it with a workbook and study guide for class or individual study. I was especially blessed by the comments of my mother-in-law, Mary Bixby Sneed, who was so excited about how the book helped her regain her original zest for Jesus, that she has been buying and shipping books to friends of her and my father-in-law’s as far away (from Texas) as Northern New York state. Thanks one and all.

In acknowledging you, the buyer and reader, I followed this philosophy: Books are priced upon number of pages; therefore, to cut the cost of production and, therefore, your cost, I am not leaving large spaces in the workbook after each lesson’s questions to fill in the answers. Instead, I suggest you, the student or teacher, buy a