Here is the data, which I first put into excel.

Here is a link to the timeline, along with some observations, for your viewing pleasure.

@TimeGlider :: From Adam to Noah.

"My point is that in the same way, sex is pleasurable, but that’s not why sex was made. It was made so that spouses could make children.

via Going All the Way.

That’s a pretty big statement right there. I don’t and wouldn’t dispute that procreation is one of the purposes of sex. Be fruitful and multiply, children are a blessing from the lord, let your quiver be full, and all that.

But where exactly in the bible does it say that the God’s primary intention or purpose in making sex was so that spouses could make babies? How do we know that taking pleasure in your spouses body is not just as much of a purpose? Think about, oh, I don’t know… Song of Solomon? Exhortations not to deny our spouse except for specific times of prayer and fasting?

And for those who make such arguments about sex being for the purpose of procreation, what do you say to the 2.1 million married women who are unable to get pregnant? (See CDC stats)

Can’t we simply argue to those outside of marriage that God’s law is best and meant for our good, and the freedom of sex within the marriage bed is the best sex you will ever have because there is no guilt, comparison, shame, or fear involved?

Tithing your time to your church would be spending approximately 17 hours doing “God stuff”, as there are 168 hours in a week. So if you are given generous credit for your personal devotions at an hour a day – and let’s be honest, alot of us don’t even make that – how are you giving God the other ten hours?

Giving 10 hours of service to your church would be a great thing! However, I don’t think that there is such a thing as ‘tithing your time” in God’s eyes.

Aside from reading your bible and serving at church, consider this:

• At work, you are representing God.
• On the highway as you react to someone cutting you off in traffic (with your jesus fish displayed proudly on the back bumper)- you are representing God.
• On the internet and facebook – the websites you visit and your words typed to others are representing God.
• In the way you make time for your spouse’s needs above your own need to watch reality tv, or don’t, you are representing God.

24 hours a day, seven days a week, our time belongs to God, we are representing him. We don’t clock in and out, and there is no on/off switch. Our lives were bought with a price.

So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.

-1 Cor 10:31

Internet sites that are helpful for bible study

Bible Gateway

When you remember a piece of a verse, and want to find it. OR when you want to pull up several different versions of the bible next to each other. OR if you want to study a topic, use the topical index as a starting point.

The NET bible

The bible wasn’t originally written in English, it was written in Greek and Hebrew. The NET bible is a great study bible that tells you why certain english words were used in the translation, and what the other options might have been. Also, you can print out a .pdf of and entire book of the bible at a time, if you want. I like doing that so I can mark it up.

Bible Reading Plans

e-sword

This FREE software lets you generate plans, you just need to select what you want to read over what period of time.

Logos Bible Reader

This program runs in the tray of your computer and will pop up everyday with the reading for the day.

http://www.ewordtoday.com/year/

5 plans, including Beginning to End, Chronological, Historical, New then Old, Old and New(simultaneously) They have each of these plans with start dates on the 1st and the 15th of EVERY Month.

Bible Gateway Survey Plan

The survey plan found on biblegateway seems like a great place to start too. Highlights from every book in 61 days.

Internet Teaching

Cincinatti Vineyard Videos

It’s a Vineyard Church in our region, it’s video, and they include their worship sets, yes!

Mars Hill Church

While I don’t always agree with their theological positions, for the most part, the video sermons are both engaging and solid teaching.

Lifechurch.tv

They do live broadcasts many times per week that include worship, or watch sermons only in their video archive.

Sovereign Grace Worship

Under both “Theology of Worship” and “Training Resources,” there are lots of FREE .mp3 resources. I wish the Vineyard movement had a free resource like this.

For now, that’s my list. Hope someone finds some of these helpful!

On YouTube, there are a series of videos of John Wimber giving his testimony. He was a pretty charming guy, and an interesting speaker. His tales of trying to find a bible and checking out church are interesting to listen to. I posted links to the videos, if anyone wants to check it out. I enjoyed them.

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Part 5
• Part 6
• Part 7
• Part 8

The real issue here is not if pride exists in your heart; it’s where pride exists and how pride is being expressed in your life. Scripture shows us that pride is strongly and dangerously rooted in our lives, far more than most of us care to admit or even think about. — C.J. Mahaney, Humility

Prior to our conversion we were sin’s prisoners, and even after our conversion we continue to fight the presence of sin, though we’re freed from the power and penalty of sin. And if you aren’t aware of this danger, you’ll never sufficiently appreciate the significance of His death. — C.J. Mahaney, Humility

A Christian, informed and inspired by Scripture, views the cessation of work each day, the limitation God places upon work each day, and the laying down to sleep each night, as altogether a gift from God. A gift so graciously provided in His lavish generosity. And those who neglect this gift will inevitably suffer consequences. — C.J. Mahaney, Humility

Sleep is a gift that God makes available to all humanity. It’s another of the innumerable illustrations of His extravagant generosity not only toward His people but even toward those who are hostile and opposed to Him. And we, as His own people, should not only thank Him but also respond fully and appropriately and humbly in receiving this gift. — C.J. Mahaney, Humility

A classic Peanuts cartoon opens with Linus curled up in a chair, quietly reading a book. Lucy stands behind him with a funny look on her face. ‘It’s very strange,’ Lucy tells him. ‘It happens just by looking at you.’ ‘What happens?’ Linus asks. Lucy calmly answers, ‘I can feel a criticism coming on.’ How often do you feel the same way when you look closely at those around you? The truth is, that’s the tendency we all have apart from grace. — C.J. Mahaney, Humility

The fundamental explanation of our conversion was not that we were wiser or morally superior to others in choosing God, but that God chose to have mercy on us and intervened in our lives, revealing our need for His provision of the gospel. Our salvation is owed completely to the sovereign grace of God. — C.J. Mahaney, Humility

…let me suggest that you talk to your spouse and to others close to you and ask them questions like these: Do I confess my sin consistently? Do I confess specific instances of sin and not just general categories or general references to sin? Do others find it easy to correct me? Do others know the areas of temptation in my life at present? Do they know the most pronounced patterns of sin in my life at present? — C.J. Mahaney, Humility

“God’s ultimate goal in giving us biblical revelation is not punitive. He desires that His word equip us for His service. Its message brings us reconciliation through the work of Christ. Its probing exposes our need for a reconciled relationship with Him. And then His Word gives us the tools we need to actually experience that reconciled relationship on a daily basis. This is what Paul told Timothy about the role of the Bible: ‘All scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work” (2 Timothy 3:16-17). — Richards & Bredfeldt, Creative Bible Teaching

Some teachers focus on the content they desire to cover in the class as the primary factor in teaching. Creative Bible teachers do not. They recognize the necessity of teaching the truth of the Bible and the importance of strong content, but they also know that they teach students, not lessons. — Richards & Bredfeldt, Creative Bible Teaching

If you are going to bore people, don’t bore them with the Gospel. Bore them with calculus, bore them with earth science, bore them with world history. But it is a sin to bore people with the Gospel. — Howard Hendricks, Creative Bible Teaching

Great teachers know that people tend to learn more when they are involved than when they are uninvolved. When you are talking, students may or may not get involved in learning. But when they are talking, students must get involved. So the first principle of involvement in learning is this – to some degree, the less the Bible teacher talks, the more the students learn. — Richards & Bredfeldt, Creative Bible Teaching

The old adage that we ‘learn by doing’ is true. Somehow, when we begin to live out what we have learned, we are interested in learning more. The heart is like a sponge. Fill it with knowledge of the Word that remains unapplied, and it becomes stagnant. But use the knowledge and the heart becomes ready to soak in more. Application has a way of motivating learning. — Richards & Bredfeldt, Creative Bible Teaching

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Paul wrote to Timothy, ‘Do not neglect your gift’ (1 Tim 4:14) and ‘fan into flame the gift of God (2 Tim 1:6). A spiritual gift is ‘fanned into flame’ when it is exercised or used. To let it lie dormant or unused signals a shortcoming in good stewardship. — Roy B. Zuck, The Christian Educators Handbook on Teaching

The church must affirm senior citizenry because we live in a society that puts a premium on youth. We tend to look at retired people in the light of what they have been or have accomplished, rather than what they are or perhaps still will accomplish. The result to the older person is a feeling of having been shelved, and the body of Christ should provide a balanced view. — Kenneth O. Gangel, The Christian Educators Handbook on Teaching

While it is true that teachers also serve, they serve best by leading. Servant leaders are not passive but active; they are not waiting for something to happen but causing something to happen. We all embrace the concept but fail to understand exactly what is involved. It embraces more than acts; it is an attitude that pervades all that we do. — Howard G. Hendricks, The Christian Educators Handbook on Teaching

You can impress people at a distance but you can only impact them up close. Teachers need to intensify their interpersonal relations with their students. Leadership is caught not taught. — Howard G. Hendricks, The Christian Educators Handbook on Teaching

In Luke 6:12-16 we see our Lord in the process of choosing His men. Three criteria were employed, all of which are usable by any teacher: (1) He bathed His choices in prayer. Jesus spent an entire night seeking the Father’s mind. John 17:6,9 informs us these were those the Father had given him. (2) He chose individuals with proven characteristics. Jesus had extensive and intimate involvement with these men – at least a year, some thing more – living and ministering together. (3) Jesus opted for diversity in His choices. He handpicked a radical and a redneck, extroverts and introverts, natural leaders and those we seldom hear from. — Howard G. Hendricks, The Christian Educators Handbook on Teaching

Application provides the capstone of Bible study, the peak of the proccess of mining the gold of Scriptures. Without application, Bible Study remains incomplete. As James wrote, ‘Do not merely listen to the Word… Do what it says.’ (James 1:22) The Bible is not a museum piece to be exhibited or an antique to be examined. It is a guidebook for living. — Roy B. Zuck, The Christian Educators Handbook on Teaching

This year millions of Americans will take a step which will change their own lives significantly, and profoundly affect the next generation: they will have children. How they raise their youngsters will have a greater impact on society than how they vote, what technologies they produce, the wars they fight, or the art they create. — James R. Slaughter, The Christian Educators Handbook on Teaching

This was also quoted in this book, from another source:

Christians should seek to penetrate the world of the mass media and to equip themselves as television script writers, producers, and performers. We can hardly complain of the low standard of many current programs if we take no constructive initiatives to provide alternatives which are not only technically equal if not better, but more wholesome as well. — Johh Stott, Between Two Worlds

So it seems to me that the following advice is beneficial for young people who are keen and intelligent, who fear God and seek a life of true happiness. Do not venture without due care into any branches of learning outside the church of Christ, as if they were a means to attaining the happy life, but discriminate sensibly and carefully between them. — Saint Augustine, On Christian Teaching

But since the human race is prone to judge sins not by the strength of the actual lust, but rather by the standard of its own practices, people generally regard as culpable only such actions as men of their time and place tend to blame and condemn, and regard as commendable and praiseworthy only such actions as are acceptable within the conventions of their own society. And so it happens that if scripture enjoins something at variance with the practices of its readers, or censures something that is not at variance with them, they consider the relevant expression to be figurative (always assuming that their minds are governed by the authority of the Word). But scripture enjoins nothing but love, and censures nothing but lust, and moulds men’s minds accordingly. — Saint Augustine, On Christian Teaching

oratorical ability, so effective a resource to commend either right or wrong, is available to both sides; why then is it not acquired by good and zealous Christians to fight for the truth, if the wicked employ it in the service of iniquity and error, to achieve their perverse and futile purposes? — Saint Augustine, On Christian Teaching

There is a danger in forgetting what one has to say while working out a clever way to say it. — Saint Augustine, On Christian Teaching

the interpreter and teacher of the divine scriptures, the defender of the true faith and the vanquisher of error, must communicate what is good and eradicate what is bad, and in this process of speaking must win over the antagonistic, rouse the apathetic, and make clear to those who are not conversant with the matter under discussion what they should expect. — Saint Augustine, On Christian Teaching

The wisdom of what a person says is in direct proportion to his progress in learning the holy scriptures – and I am not speaking of intensive reading or memorization, but real understanding and careful investigation of their meaning. Some people read them but neglect them; by their reading they profit in knowledge, by their neglect they forfeit understanding. Those who remember the words less closely but penetrate to the heart of scripture to the eyes of their own heart are much to be preferred, but better than either is the person who not only quotes scripture when he chooses, but also understands it as he should. — Saint Augustine, On Christian Teaching

What is the use of correct speech if it does not meet with the listener’s understanding? There is no point in speaking at all if our words are not understood by the people to whose understanding our words are directed. — Saint Augustine, On Christian Teaching

The aim of our orator, then, when speaking of things which are just and holy and good – and he should not speak of anything else – the aim, as I say, that he pursues to the best of his ability when he speaks of these things is to be listened to with understanding, with pleasure, and with obedience. He should be in no doubt that any ability he has and however much he has derives more from his devotion to prayer than his dedication to oratory; and so by praying for himself and for those he is about to address, he must become a man of prayer before becoming a man of words. — Saint Augustine, On Christian Teaching

More important than any amount of grandeur of style to those of us who seek to be listened to with obedience is the life of the speaker. A wise and eloquent speaker who lives a wicked life certainly educates many who are eager to learn, although he is useless to his own soul, as scripture puts it (Ecc 37:2). That is why Paul says ‘ Let Christ be proclaimed, whether in pretence or in truth’ (Phil 1:18). Christ is the truth, and yet the truth can be proclaimed even by the untruth, in the sense that things which are right and true may be proclaimed by a wicked and deceitful heart. — Saint Augustine, On Christian Teaching