Jonathan Romig's Teaching Archive

The following is a list of helpful resources you can use to study your Bible and prepare for Sunday school or small group. We use Bible study software, websites, and apps to help us spend time diving deep into Scripture. These resources are not an end within themselves, but simply tools we can use to get to know God better through his Word. 

I've never been to war, but maybe you have or know someone who has. In the last one-hundred years, the US has experienced a lot of war. We went through WWI and WWII. Then we fought in the Korean War and Vietnam. Maybe some of you remember the Cuban Missile Crisis. More recently we’ve had roles in the Persian Gulf War. In the mid and late 90s there was the Bosnian War and Kosovo. Then everything changed for the United States on September 11th 2001.

My church raised me to love the Bible and all its stories, but didn’t talk much about tradition, or the historic creeds, confessions, and catechisms. I learned the Bible every week but I was missing out on what my spiritual grandparents had to offer me. It wasn’t till seminary that the significance of what came before me began to sink in. That’s when I discovered my need for what I like to call extra-Biblical humility . Extra-Biblical humility is a humble respect and gratitude for all that God has provided for the health and vitality of his Church outside of the Biblical canon. This means respecting and caring about words like dogma, doctrine, and theology. It means cherishing our rich heritage as evangelical Christians by paying attention to more than just our Bibles. It means recognizing that the call for all of this is grounded in Scripture itself, as 2 Corinthians 13:5a says, “Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves…” (ESV). Up till semi...