How to Use This Book: This book is designed as both a Commentary and as an Instructive Outline. A companion Study Guide is available, which features an abbreviated outline in a fill-in-the-blank format. All answers required to complete the study guide are printed within this commentary as Bolded, Double-underlined text (Example: Answer).
PREFACE: This book grows out of a ministry of over forty-five years, during which time I have presented this subject more times than I can remember. In preparing for each presentation, additional information has been integrated.
A significant by-product of the continuing development of this material is the incorporation of various “Inserts” – extended studies that may be inserted into the study of this book at the discretion of the reader, teacher, or preacher. These “Inserts” are included in the last half of this book. Isolating the material covered by the “Inserts,” allows the major emphasis of the book to maintain its streamlined “overview” nature; thus allowing the reader (or class) to focus on the panoramic study of the Bible in conjuction with its companion chart.
The goal of this book is to provide both a Bible study and teaching tool. My desire is to share with others the various insights, encouragements, and helps which God has used to bless my own life and ministry. The key word which guided my thinking, and helped to define the scope of this book, is the word “Practical.”
I have chosen to format this book as an “instructional outline” with some commentary. While this book is not designed as devotional text, there is some meditative material as well. And, while this book is not designed as a complete verse-by-verse exegesis of the Bible, there is a measure of this applied to certain key passages of Scripture.
It is my prayer that the reader may find some practical insights and discovers some useful principles that can challenge and enhance their life and ministry before God.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Dr. Bob Hill accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as his Saviour in 1960 at age ten. He preached his first sermon in 1965 in a youth service at Calvary Baptist Church in Norfolk, Virginia. On May 14, 1969, while attending East Carolina University as a music education major, he surrendered to God’s leading to prepare for the Gospel ministry.
Hill graduated from Tennessee Temple College in 1973 with a B.A. degree in Bible. At that time, the institution was under the leadership of Dr. Lee Roberson. Hill holds a Doctor of Literature degree (h.c.) from the American Bible College.
From 1972 through 1976, Bob and his wife, Virginia, taught at Hamilton Christian Academy in East Ridge, Tennessee. During this time, he was invited to pastor Faith Bible Church in Fort Oglethrope, Georgia. In 1974, he was ordained to the Ministry by his home church, Calvary Baptist Church, in Norfolk, Virginia.
In 1977, Hill started Calvary Baptist Church in Miamisburg, Ohio. The church started Calvary Christian School in 1979. Hill served on the executive boards of both the Christian Schools of Ohio (CSO) and the Ohio Pastors Information Network (OPIN).
Bob Hill served in the ministry of Accelerated Christian Education, Inc. (ACE) from 1988 to 2000, during which time he was appointed Vice President of its Product Development Division. In May, 2000, he accepted a call to pastor Faith Baptist Church in Water Valley, Mississippi. Dr. Hill served as the President of the Mississippi Association of Christian Schools (MACS) for ten years.
