Habits of Grace, Part 2

Reading the Bible can feel overwhelming, confusing, or even intimidating. But what if it’s less about checking a box and more about connecting with Jesus? In this message, Pastor Caleb unpacks why Scripture is essential for following Jesus and how to begin building it into your daily life. Discover practical steps—whether you’re brand new to the Bible or looking to deepen your habit—that can help you hear God’s voice and be shaped by His Word.

Goodbye Yesterday
Elevation Rhythm

Praise
Elevation Worship

Great Are You Lord
All Sons and Daughters

You Deserve It All
Josh Baldwin

1. Time and Busyness
2. Lack of Understanding
3. Perceived Irrelevance
4. Competing Voices
5. Shame and Guilt Cycle
6. Spiritual Resistance/Warfare
7. Church Culture
8. Unclear “How”

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Do you want a relationship with Him?
Do you want to be formed and informed by Jesus?
What is your plan to experience the life He offers?

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2 Timothy 3:1-17
But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth. Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the faith. But they will not get very far, for their folly will be plain to all, as was that of those two men.

You, however, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness, my persecutions and sufferings that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra—which persecutions I endured; yet from them all the Lord rescued me. Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

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Why does it matter?
How do you do it?
What is my next step in engaging this habit?

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2 Timothy 3:14-15
But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

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2 Timothy 3:16
All Scripture is breathed out by God….

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Andrew Wilson
“I don’t trust in Jesus because I trust the Bible; I trust the Bible because I trust in Jesus. I love him, and I’ve decided to follow him, so if he talks and acts as if the Bible is trustworthy, authoritative, good, helpful and powerful, I will too… Even if some of my questions remain unanswered, or my answers remain unpopular.”

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2 Timothy 3:16
…and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness…

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Teaching
Sound doctrine, what to believe.

Reproof
Unsound doctrine, what not to believe or succumb to.

Correction
Setting right, behavior…

Training in righteousness
How to live your lives. Practice.

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Be with Jesus
The author is with you in the room…

Become like Jesus
Begin to think, feel, see like Jesus did.

Do as He did
Live out the way of Jesus…

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Read
Meditate
Study
Memorize

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Joshua 1:8
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

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Psalm 1:1-2
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.

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Psalm 119:11
I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

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