The Bible has a lot to say about leadership – especially in the Gospels. So, study tools like the NIV Leadership Bible Notes are very helpful for processing and applying these passages to your own leadership style. In Matthew 20:20-26, Jesus makes one of the most profound statements on being…

bereans

“As soon as it was night, the believers sent Paul and Silas away to Berea. On arriving there, they went to the Jewish synagogue. Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every…

Have you ever been listening to a sermon, chatting at small group, or even doing your own Bible study, and wondered if you were missing an important, insightful piece of information? It’s one thing to have a great collection of Biblical resources, but that doesn’t mean you know there’s a…

The following is an excerpt from the For Everyone Commentary Series by John Goldingay and N.T. Wright. Learn how God can show up. He can be for us even when we don’t deserve it — or even expect it. WE DON’T ALWAYS GET WHAT WE DESERVE I’ve remembered why I…

When I was in Bible college, my homiletics professor said that for every minute you preach, you should spend one hour studying. I would sit down, ready to put a few good hours of research in… and I would get distracted. The worst part is that I wasn’t primarily distracted…

The New Beacon Bible Commentary Set is a Wesleyan commentary based on the NIV. It’s readable, relevant, and above all, academically thorough. Editors Roger Hahn, Alex Varughese, and George Lyons care deeply about equipping the Church to study and teach God’s Word. Want to know what’s inside? Hear from the…

At least once a year, we like to highlight our enhanced resources: resources that we’ve enriched and optimized for the Olive Tree Bible App. Instead of these resources simply being eBooks that you only scroll and read, we’ve made the content discoverable by search and the Resource Guide, hyperlinked verses,…

Learning how to study the Bible shouldn’t be difficult. The Essential Bible Reference Collection provides four quality, easy-to-use resources to get you started. Before you know it, you’ll feel confident using Bible dictionaries, handbooks, and historical resources. Let’s take a look inside this new collection in our store! THE ESSENTIAL…

Happy Valentine’s Day! We would send you all flowers and chocolate if we could… but instead, we decided to discount some of our top Marriage and Family resources. This is the kind of gift that keeps on giving! Scroll through this blog and see if anything catches your eye. You…