Students of the Word
To be a Christian is to be a student. The word “disciple” means “student”, and before he ascended to Heaven, Jesus’s final command to his students was that they should go into all the world and teach, making more students (Matthew 28:19-20). As Christians in the modern world, our calling is still to be students of Jesus and to help each other in fellowship as we learn about Him and from Him. We are to be Students of the Word, studying the Bible, the written word of God, as we walk as the disciples of Jesus, the living Word.
My name is Corey Olsen, and I am hosting a Bible study open to anyone who would like to join me as a Student of the Word. Would you like to join me for a patient, thoughtful, and prayerful study of the Bible together, reading whole books verse by verse?
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 84 minutes
- Episodes
- 90
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Episode 30: We've Had One Antichrist, Yes. But What About Other Antichrists?
We unwind the long and entangled discussion that John gives us on antichrist in verses 2:18-20, paying close attention to the "they went out from us" passage.
Episode 29: On the Coming of Antichrist
A big day for Students of the Word, as we start not only a new section but begin to read about antichrist and the last days. We take as careful a look as we can at the meaning of antichrist, and try …
Episode 28: Abiding to the Age in the Last Hour
What is abiding? How does abiding in Christ empower us to overcome the Evil One? In this episode we explore exactly those questions.
Episode 27: The Serpent in the Garden
In chapter 3, we examine the apparent contradiction: God loves the world, and we are to be like God, so why do those who love the world, and the things in it, not have God in them? The astounding ans…
Episode 26: Loving The Things in the World
In this episode we deep-dive into I John 2:15-17 and the many different ways John could be using the word 'love' as it relates to loving the world, and the things in it.
Episode 25: Our Love, God's Love
Before moving on to verse 15, we spend some time again reviewing the poetic section of verses 12-14. One last time we explore the three questions we must ask when we encounter poetic material.
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Episode 23: Not Skipping the Poetry
In 1 John 2:12-14, John gives a heartfelt address to three different groups within the Christian community - children, fathers and young people - conveying words of encouragement and assurance. His …
Episode 24: So, Whom Are You Writing To, Again?
We return to the poetry found in 1 John 2:12-14. This time we consider the question of how the poem is connected to the rest of the text and why it has been inserted where it was.
Then the relations…
Episode 22: Why Are You Writing?
This is a convicting exploration of 1 John 2:7-11, about the connection between loving our brother and loving the Father, what that love looks like, and how this love affects our position within eith…
Episode 21: The Stumblingblock in Me
In this episode, we spend a good bit of time wrestling with the word choice and syntax of 2:10-11, and in doing so, we stumble across some interesting patterns and questions that shed light on the wh…
Episode 20: Love and Hatred
We begin today by returning to verse 9 and thinking through what exactly it means to hate your brother. Do we let ourselves off this charge too easily on some technicality or other? Then in verse 10…
Episode 18: This Past Darkness
So, hang on -- is the commandment old, or is it new? And in what sense is it true in both Jesus and in us? And what does this have to do with the light and the darkness? This verse is pretty puzzl…
Episode 19: Abiding in the Light
We start by going back and putting John's statements about the darkness passing away and the true light shining into the larger context of John's teaching in the epistle thus far, looking more closel…
Episode 17: Something Old, Something New
After a look back at how paragraph three fits into the big picture, we plunge ahead into a discussion of I John 2:7, the first verse in paragraph four. Our discussion contains some fun explorations …
Episode 16: We Ought Just as He Walked to Walk
The last sentence of John's third paragraph brings together all the terms that he has been throwing around in this third paragrah, as well as bringing back one or two from paragraph two and introduci…
Episode 15: The Perfect Love of God
Today we went back to complete out discussion not only of I John 2:4 but of the parallel statement that completes the sentence: I John 2:5. We have a lot of very fruitful discussion of what it means…
Episode 14: Knowing that You Know God
After a look back over where we have come from, we begin discussing the third paragraph of John's epistle, starting in chapter 2, verse 3. After all those "if" statements about deceiving ourselves a…
Episode 12: And Now, But If
Turning to the second chapter of I John and ready to begin the third paragraph of the epistle, I suddenly realize that we are actually still in the second paragraph! The rhetorical shift at the start…
Episode 13: Propitiation for the Whole World
In this second half of the last sentence of this big second paragraph of the epistle, we learn not only more about the nature of Jesus's work for us, but the magnitude of its cleansing power.
Episode 11: It's About the Koinonia
The last verse of Chapter 1 provides the fifth and final if/then statement in this paragraph. We spend some time looking at the patterns that the whole series presents, and some of the implications …