Welcome to Bible Thinker, the program dedicated to thinking biblically about everything.

I'm Pastor Mike Winger and today you'll hear a teaching of mine called the Bible for Beginners

where you're going to get an overview of the 66 books of the Bible and here's some pro tips

for how to understand the Bible more accurately. This is a lot of trivia type information about the Bible

that helps put everything into perspective and gives a person the ability to get

more out of the Bible when they read it. And this is also the first episode of Bible Thinker on

podcast. While today I'm dealing with really basic Bible stuff I will be going

into very deep theology and apologetics in future episodes, handling important issues and

controversial issues and seeking to think biblically about everything.

All right, without further delay, here is the Bible for beginners.

There are so many people who open the Bible and say things like I really don't

understand this and then they close it.

They say, I just don't know where to start.

There are people who maybe have not had that biblical knowledge.

Maybe they've gotten saved,

but then they've never really delved into the scriptures deeply.

Maybe they even have a religious background, years and years of a religious background, but not a biblical background, not a grounding in the word of God.

There are people who, some of them maybe even veteran Christians, Christians for years, decades

even, who actually don't know much about the Bible.

They don't know what it says about different topics in their own personal life.

And you hear them say sometimes things like,

well, somewhere in the book it says something like and I've heard that a lot as

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