The Scripture Practice - Study

Practice of Scripture: Study with Tina.

What if the goal of studying Scripture isn't information, but formation? In this teaching, Tina reframes study not as a task for scholars and pastors but as a means of becoming like Jesus, because you can win a Bible trivia contest and still be impatient, anxious, and controlling. Looking at Jesus' temptation in the wilderness in Luke 4, we see a man so saturated in Scripture that under pressure, weak and hungry, his gut response is to quote Deuteronomy. The wilderness didn't create his trust in the Father; it revealed what had already been formed in him. Which raises the question for all of us: what comes out of you when you're squeezed? Woven through the teaching is Tina's own story of being delivered from a years-long fear, and how learning to glorify God on a hundred-mile bike ride became a journey of surrender, trust, and receiving what she could not produce in herself. She offers practical guidance for studying the Bible as a library and a unified story leading to Jesus, while sounding a sober warning from John 5: it's possible to know the Bible and miss Jesus. This is an invitation to position yourself before God through study, so that when life squeezes you, Jesus is what comes out.