Pleasure and Profit in Bible Study
Overview
Pleasure and Profit in Bible Study is D. L. Moody’s fast-paced and practical guidebook on how to get the most out of your Bible study. Useful and direct, Moody’s tips for Bible study can be applied to any level of personal and group study or Sunday school class.
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Key Features
- Provides practical methods for effective Bible study
- Offers study tips applicable for a variety of situations
- Includes illustrations, Scripture references, stories, and more
Contents
- Close Contact with the Word of God
- Doubting and Inquiring
- The Old and the New Testaments
- “My Word Shall Not Pass Away”
- Fulfilled Prophecy
- Text Preaching and Expository Preaching
- Reading and Studying
- How to Study the Bible
- The Telescopic and Microscopic Methods
- One Book at a Time
- Study of Types
- Study of Subjects
- Word Study
- Bible Marking
- Personal Work
- Summary of Suggestions
Praise for the Print Edition
Every page reveals the faith, directness, practical spirit, and other well known characteristics of the great revivalist.
—Review of Reviews
This is one of those interesting and profitable monographs on the benefits of studying the Bible, and the right way of doing so, which no man can better write than Mr. Moody.
—Christian Work
Product Details
- Title: Pleasure and Profit in Bible Study
- Author: D. L. Moody
- Publisher: Fleming H. Revell
- Publication Date: 1895
- Pages: 123
About Dwight Lyman Moody
Dwight Lyman Moody (1837–1899) was born in Northfield, Mass. His father died soon after, and Moody was forced to work to support the family at an early age. In 1854, Moody took a job at his uncle’s shoe store and one of the conditions upon employment was that he should regularly attend his uncle’s church. It was at this church where his conversion took place. He moved to Chicago in 1856, and after working as a successful Sunday-school teacher and building a membership of 1,500 pupils, the Illinois Street Church was formed. He then began his revival work, which would become his life-long endeavor.
Beginning in 1872, Moody would travel and preach in Great Britain, winning the esteem of many prominent evangelicals. When he returned to America, he had invitations all over the country for speaking engagements. For the next 20 years, Moody would travel the globe, packing churches and revival halls with those wanting to hear him preach. He was honest, preached a Calvinistic creed which he accepted with all his heart, and was a master of an effective style. During all of his travels, he found time to write and publish numerous works.
Moody was also known for the educational institutions he started. The Illinois Street Church he started was later renamed in his honor to Moody Church. In 1886, Moody established the Chicago Evangelization Society for the education and training of Christian workers. This institution was renamed the Moody Bible Institute in his honor after he passed away in 1899.
Top Highlights
“How can I get in love with the Bible? Well, if you will only arouse yourself to the study of it, and ask God’s assistance, He will assuredly help you.” (Page 8)
“A QUICKENING that will last must come through the Word of God. A man stood up in one of our meetings and said he hoped for enough out of the series of meetings to last him all his life. I told him he might as well try to eat enough breakfast at one time to last him his lifetime.” (Page 7)
“Depend upon it, my friends, if you get tired of the Word of God, and it becomes wearisome to you, you are out of communion with Him.” (Page 10)
“In Psalm 119:165, we find these words: ‘Great peace have they which love Thy law; and nothing shall offend them.’ The study of God’s Word will secure peace. Take those Christians who are rooted and grounded in the Word of God, and you will find they have great peace; but those who don’t study their Bible, and don’t know their Bible, are easily offended when some little trouble comes, or some little persecution, and their peace is all disturbed; just a little breath of opposition and their peace is all gone.” (Page 12)
“Pascal said, ‘Human knowledge must be understood in order to be loved; but Divine knowledge must be loved to be understood.’ That marks the point of failure of most critics of the Bible. They do not make their brain the servant of their heart.” (Page 18)
- Title: Pleasure and Profit in Bible Study
- Author: Dwight L. Moody
- Publisher: Fleming H. Revell
- Print Publication Date: 1895
- Logos Release Date: 2012
- Era: era:modern
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Bible › Study and teaching
- Resource ID: LLS:PLSRPROFITMOODY
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T05:06:57Z
Dwight Lyman Moody (1837–1899) is considered one of the nineteenth century’s greatest evangelists. After moving to Chicago in 1856, Moody began a Sunday School class, the attendance of which quickly grew to over 1,500. This growth allowed Moody to form the Illinois Street Church.
As Moody traveled to preach in Great Britain, he began winning the esteem of many prominent evangelicals. For the next 20 years, Moody traveled the world, speaking, preaching, and finding time to write as well. In 1886, Moody established the Chicago Evangelization Society (later renamed the Moody Bible Institute) to educate and train Christian workers.
The Works of Dwight L. Moody (26 vols.) contains hundreds of his sermons and addresses, plus his works on heaven, grace, prayer, the 10 Commandments, Christian living, and biblical characters. He is also the author of Arrows and Anecdotes, included in Goodly Heritage Library: Shelf Two.