Immanuel Baptist Church in Hannibal Missouri

In week 12 of our hermeneutics study Lee Woodmansee spends the evening talking about how to interpret parables. LeeWood begins the discussion by talking about how Jesus intentionally is "revealing as he is obscuring" through the parables. LeeWood then offers seven guidelines for how to interpret the parables in the gospels.

In the eleventh week of our Hermeneutics study Pastor LeeWood introduces us to the Gospel genre. LeeWood begins by describing the general characteristics of gospels, and then defends why we need four Gospel accounts: because each evangelist had a specific audience and goal in mind when he authored his account. The big takeaway from this week's session though was the practical exercise that Lee led...

In the 10th week of our study in How To Read Your Bible For All It's Worth we are treated to hearing Dr. Robert Matz teach on the topic of prophetic literature. Dr. Matz holds a Ph. D. in theology and apologetics from Liberty University and currently serves as the President of Hannibal LaGrange University. In this week's session Dr. Matz discusses the general characteristics of prophetic literatur...

In the ninth week of our Hermeneutics study Lee Woodmansee walks us through how to interpret the book of Proverbs. By combining the previous week's content (Wisdom Literature and Poetry) Pastor LeeWood explores how to discover the value and beauty of the book of Proverbs. LeeWood first describes the structure of the book of Proverbs, then gives some helpful descriptions about what proverbs are and...

In week 8 of our hermeneutics study Pastor Lee Woodmansee walks us through Biblical Poetry. LeeWood talks about the general characteristics of poetry, its uses in our lives, and the building blocks of parallelism within Hebrew poetry. All of this culminates in an examination of Psalm 23as we combined all that we learned about poetry to see the depth of this psalm.

In the seventh week of our Hermeneutics study Lee Woodmansee leads us through our exploration of Wisdom Literature. By discussing the general characteristics of the genre, some helpful guidelines for how to interpret them, and using Job as an example that demonstrates the genre's uses we will be better equipped to live a well lived life.

In Week 6 of our Hermeneutics series Lee Woodmansee begins to discuss individual genres of biblical literature. The first genre discussed is the one that is most prevalent in the Scriptures: narrative. Lee will cover four main things concerning narrative literature: 1) general characteristics of the genre, 2) a discussion of prescriptive and descriptive texts, 3) seven general guidelines or tips f...

In the fifth installment of our hermeneutics study Lee Woodmansee begins to address the wildly important topic of Bible application. The three main topics that are covered are 1) the metanarrative of Scripture, 2) the importance of applying the Bible. and 3) what are genres and what to do with them.

In our fourth week of our Hermeneutics Study Lee Woodmansee begins to discuss three key elements that will set us up for the rest of the study: 1) the importance of right interpretation, 2) who is responsible for right interpretation, and 3) the role of the Holy Spirit in interpretation. The goal for this session is to begin to describe a process that all Christians innately do, and then begin to...

In our third week of our study in Hermeneutics we want to move from the theoretical realm of our discussion into a more practical arena. In this session we discuss 1) inerrancy and infallibility 2) how biblical manuscripts were transmitted and 3) how biblical manuscripts are translated. A Q&A session follows caps off our time where we discuss translations and what to do with the King James Ver...

In week 2 of our series on How To Read The Bible For All It's Worth Pastor LeeWood begins a 2 part look at the Bible's formation and organization. Basic details about the number of authors and books will be presented along with the more important correlation between these facts and core convictions we hold about the Bible. The three core convictions we have about the Bible are: 1) The Bible is abo...

In this opening week of our Equipping Institute series on How to Read the Bible for All It's Worth Lee Woodmansee gives us an overview of Hermeneutics. Pastor LeeWood walks through the overarching goal of Equipping Institute, the content that we plan to cover over the next 4 years, as well as crash course in Hermeneutics.