LIVING FAITH BIBLE INSTITUTE

Hello Students,

We want to remind you of the many resources that are available to you as you research for your essays and major assignments.

• Keep in mind that there are "Writing Helps" under the "Resources" section of our website as well as links to online libraries and helpful study tools. These are typically under utilized resources that are very easy for students to access.
• Look for a reference list on your course bibliography. Most LFBI courses provide a bibliography on either the syllabus or as citations or reference sections on their weekly lecture notes. These lists are a great guide for deeper study. 
• Lastly, visit our campus library on Saturdays from 9:30-noon to sit down and do some research or check out materials from our collection of 2,000+ books. 

We are praying that you will take your studies seriously as you finish this semester strong.

God Bless,

LFBI Staff

Ministry is often portrayed as a calling, as it should be filled with purpose, impact, and divine fulfillment. Yet the reality for many pastors, missionaries, and church leaders is that gospel ministry comes with seasons of deep discouragement and often failure. Learning to recover from errors in judgment and feelings of failure and fruitlessness is absolutely crucial for someone's leadership, not just for our own personal well-being, but also for sustaining long term faithfulness in the work of the ministry.

Too often, leaders internalize their setbacks as a sign that God has rejected them, but failure does not mean the end of ministry. Failure can be the very place where growth and deeper faith in Christ begins. In today's episode, we talk with Pastor Mitch Dobson, Biblical Studies Instructor of the Living Faith Institute, to explore these difficult yet transformative moments, turning to the Scriptures to remind us of God’s promises during these critical times in life and ministry.

The Living Faith Bible Institute has a heart for church planting. Our curriculum and experienced pastoral instructors and professors focus teaching on equipping men and women for the work of missions and church planting, domestically and all over the world. 

Many of our graduates are investing in this very work, one of whom is Blade Sbisa, who along with his wife and children, are currently preparing to leave their home church in Lee's Summit, Missouri, to establish another disciple-making church across the state in Saint Louis. He's heading east. Blade tells us all about that work and what God's doing in his life.

Hello Students,

We want to remind you that there is still time to enroll for second quarter classes. We have a great lineup for you!

• Apologetics (Shelby) - a course intended to instruct you in how to prove biblical Christianity and the claims of scripture.
• Prayer & Worship (Phillips) - a study highlighting the primacy of effective prayer and worship in the life of leaders and the entire church
• The Biblically Principles Church (Miles) - a leadership course that helps establish a principle-based approach to ministry intended to set your church free to own the work of ministry.
• World Religion & Cults (Reneau)- an overview of major world religions and dominant cults to help expand your knowledge for the sake of evangelism.

Also, for those of you writing essays, we are beginning to build out more writing resources for our student body. Check out our "Writing Helps" to get tips on how to write a more effective essay.

In Revelation 11, we are given a depiction of the second half of the tribulation, the moment in the end times narrative where two men, two prophets will be used to open the eyes of the Jewish people to the reality that Jesus Christ is the Messiah.

Revelation 11:3 says, “And I will give [power] unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred [and] threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.”

These two witnesses will spend three and a half years performing miracles like the prophets and apostles of old – with command over the weather, power over plagues and the ability to breath fire and will even be raised from the dead!

These two unnamed men, called “olive trees” in Zechariah 4, stand tall as central figures in the story of Israel’s redemption and the second advent of Christ – but who are they? Can we know? And is it important to our understanding of the Bible?

To chat about the identity of the two witnesses, provost Brandon Briscoe has invited Sam Miles, president of the Living Faith Bible Institute and biblical studies instructor onto the show.