Bible study lessons - updated compilation (new commentary) torrent

T.O.D. Johnston has been teaching from the Bible at Paran Baptist Church on Highway 341 / Johnsonville Hwy in Lake City, South Carolina since 2004. The commentaries and other files are based on the notes he wrote in preparation for the lessons.

The author was licensed to preach the Gospel by Paran on May 26, 1979. He has been a student of scripture since 1972. He was an art teacher for over 30 years in Florence School District 3.

T.O.D. Johnston's preface to his lessons:

"After reading many scholarly commentaries on different books of scripture, it became my mental habit to sift through the minute discussions of individual words and/or phrases, and the quoting of various scholars of the past of many differing opinions, and center on the most logical and inspirational truths that remained. Thus I relied on the studied scholarship of those who had learned the original languages and had read all the previous scholars that had written to get the best possible understanding of scripture that I, as a non-scholar, could. It seemed that most church members would not attempt to read scholarly works - but would benefit from their knowledge if presented in a plain and straightforward manner, the truths they had perceived. The following commentary is my attempt to do this. May God bless my efforts to the extent that they increase the understanding and faith of the reader."

T.O.D. Johnston
2005