Thursday Night Bible Class January 26th - 2010 Romans Series

Any way you spell it in the Greek, God's Word is clear we have peace with Him.

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Tuesday's Bible Class January 24th - 2010 Acts Series: Acts 4:32-5:16

With a quick review of our study of Acts so far, we are again reminded of the righteous and gracious provisions for the poor. As we move further into this lesson, we learn that the overall theme of Acts is the story of the Holy Spirit and the Apostles. And we learn that Acts 4:32 to Acts 5:16 can best be described as a progress report on apostolic authority.

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Sunday January 22 - 2011 Colossians Series: Colossians 2:11-15 Forgiveness

Since Pastor Dean has been out of the country for a few weeks, this lesson takes the time to go back and review what we had learned so far on the profound significance Paul places on forgiveness in Colossians 2:11-15.

As we are reminded of when forgiveness takes place, we also learn of the four different types or areas of forgiveness. This lesson is important for a clear understanding of forgiveness all mankind has in Jesus' work on the cross, but also in how believers are to apply forgiveness in our personal walk.

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Annual Chafer Pastors' Conference Coming in March

The annual Chafer Pastors' Conference hosted yearly at West Houston Bible Church is fast approaching.  Dates for this year's conference are March 12-14, 2012. The theme this year is "The Role of the Christian in a National Entity". Our line up of speakers is excellent, and this conference promises to be one of great importance and interest due to this being a critical election year in the U.S.

Complete information along with a conference brochure and registration information can be found at www.houstonbibleconferences.org.

Please let everyone know about this important conference and mark your calendars to plan to join us.

Update on Pastor Dean's 2012 Trip to Israel

We have had a very good response to the upcoming Israel tour led by Pastor Dean on June 11 thru 23, 2012.  There are many who have signed up from all over the country, and even some from new Zealand. We still have spaces available, and should the response increase, the cost of the trip for each will decrease accordingly.

The trip is all inclusive (with exceptions noted) and includes airfare from Houston or Washington, D.C., connecting through Newark. If you wish to adjust your flight to accomodate your home departure city, contact us. We can work out the trip cost adjustment. The tour also includes 10 nights at very nice, comfortable Israeli hotels, 10 days of sight seeing with a free day in Jerusalem, tour guide, entrance fees, breakfast and dinner each day, standard tips for hotel personnel, guide, porters, and $1 per person at pre-ordered group lunches. Not included in the cost are expenses of a personal nature, such as laundry, drinks, lunch, snacks, shopping, and extra events, etc. Dr. Dean is daily communicating with our Israeli tour guide to make sure our itinerary includes all the new attractions that have recently been made available. He also is working on a few evening surprise guests to join us. If you or someone you know think you would like to go on this trip, please contact us right away so we can save a spot for you. 

NEW! Click here for the 2012 Israel Tour brochure (soon to be updated).

2012 Jude Series

While Dr. Dean was teaching out of the country, we began his new series in the book of Jude on January 5. We have currently viewed five of these lessons. Lesson six and subsequent lessons from this excellent series will be aired during his next absence. Check back here to receive updates and announcements on those dates in the spring.

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Publication by Dr. Dean on Logos

What the Bible Teaches about Spiritual Warfare, by Dr. Robert Dean, Jr. and Dr. Thomas Ice is NOW AVAILABLE on Logos.com.

If you have Logos, you can now have Spiritual Warfare as part of your Logos Library.

Three Foundational Rapture Passages

Three scripture passages demonstrate the pre–tribulation Rapture. Together these verses answer the who,
the what, the when, the where, and the how questions concerning the Rapture of the Church. This paper explains the significance of 1 Thess 4:13-18, John 14:1-3, and 1 Cor 15:50-58 for understanding why the Church Age believer expectantly anticipates the coming of Jesus Christ not the Antichrist.

Three Foundational Rapture Passages

Now Available – Video Podcasts of All Current Bible Classes Plus Website Tutorials

The DBM video ministry recently expanded to include video podcasts of all Bible classes. Other video offerings of DBM include live streaming of Bible classes, online video files, AVI DVDs of current Bible studies (each DVD includes 20 high-quality Bible class videos), as well as "regular" single-class DVDs of each Bible study.

For information on how to access the online video and audio offerings of Dean Bible Ministries, click below for step-by-step "How to" guides on:

Video/Audio

• How to sign up for DBM video podcasts on iTunes
• How to live stream a Bible class
• How to view DBM videos online

Audio only

• How to sign up for DBM audio podcasts through iTunes
• How to download Bible class audio files to your computer
• How to listen to Bible class audio files from the DBM website

All of the above listed "How to" guides are available by clicking here.

If you need additional information about the video/audio offerings of Dean Bible Ministries, please e-mail us at media@deanbible.org.

Attention Logos 3 Users

For those of you with Logos 3.0 (the notes transfer feature for 4.0 is not yet available)

Here is a wonderful present for all of you Bible students. A tremendous friend of DBM has used the transcripts from my Bible classes to create a massive note file for you Logos 3.0 PC users (the notes feature does not work in the Logos for Mac). If you download and insert this file into your My Documents/Libronix DLS/Annotations folder, then the next time you open Logos 3.0 to a Bible verse in a series I have taught then you will see some green, post-it, icons appear on any versified text (Bible, commentary, etc). When you put your cursor over those note files you can read what I taught on those verses. If you click on one, then the entire note file for all the verses will open, and you can navigate around those.

He also set up a different file that contains all of the doctrines I have taught (over 300) which you can load into your My Favorites folder in Logos 3.0. If you are like me, you may already have a large number of Favorites bookmarked so this may be a problem. Logos does not allow you to add favorites to your favorites folder in this manner. So if you put this into your My Documents/Libronix DLS/Favorites folder then it will replace what you have already marked. If you already have a lot of favorites marked, then you can place the Dr. Robert Dean Doctrines annotation file in the Annotations folder (My Documents/Libronix DLS/Annotations) and you can simply open it as a note file with all of the doctrines in alphabetical order.

If you do not have Logos 3.0, we have some disks at DBM we can send you. These disks are free. They were distributed by the ESV publishers and contain the Logos 3.0 program which is free and only one Bible, the ESV. But it will give you something. I do not know if you can still order basic packages from Logos in 3.0, you will need to call them to find out (www.logos.com).

For those with only Logos 4.0 you will unfortunately have to wait. The note transfer protocol will be released sometime in the next 4-6 weeks as part of the upgrade to Logos 4.0b. Until then you will just need to be patient.

If you are not familiar with Logos I suggest the Christian Leader's Library which I think is the most basic collection they offer. But remember, you can get the 3.0 at no charge by emailing staff@deanbible.org; but to get 4.0 you will need to order from Logos.

If you have questions about this please email staff@deanbible.org as the ladies in the office know nothing about its operation and I will need to answer those questions.

To download each file, right-click on the links below and select "Save Link as" or "Save target as" (depending on what browser you use). This will bring up a dialog where you can select where to save these files to on you drive.

Notes File
Doctrines File