2020 Reflections

2020 was the year of the COVID pandemic. I put the lock down to good use. I have collected a wealth of Bible Study information over the years, but that information has been sitting in file cabinets, not doing anyone any good. One of my “quarantine projects” was scanning and tossing the paper, and turning the information into a post that I can share with you — making it searchable and accessible.

2020 stats

• Added a record-breaking number of 81 resource pages to the website this year.
• Created 38 podcasts – breaking my goal of 500 podcasts. I started the year at 481 and ended with 519.
• 28,208 listener downloads — almost making my goal of reaching 150,000 listener downloads of the podcast. I started with 121,605 and ended with 149,813.
• But wait: On the morning of January 1st, I was only 187 short (149,813). However by the evening of January 2, I reached 150,951. I’m going to call that a win. A big thanks to all my listeners!

5 most popular podcasts

The 5 most popular podcasts of 2020 (which tend to be those published earliest in the year):

• 42 1Corinthians 14:26-40 Order in the Church
• 39 1Corinthians 13:4-7 Attributes of love
• 46 1Corinthians 15:50-58 The end of death
• 40 1Corinthians 13:1-13 The supremacy of love
• 38 1Corinthians 12:14-31 Understanding the body of Christ

Podcasts with 600+ downloads

These tend to be the oldest podcasts.

• 05 Parable of the Prodigal Sons (downloaded 1,151 times)
• 02 Nehemiah 1:4-11 – Caught between 2 worlds (877)
• Psalm 1 The way of the Righteous and the Wicked (801)
• 03 James 1:9-18 – Who is better off: the rich or the poor? (824)
• 20 2 Samuel 19 – David Restored as King (713)
• 12 Parable of the Friend at Midnight (708)
• 01 Romans 1:1-17 The Power of the Gospel (682)
• 06 1John 2:29-3:12 Practicing Righteousness (673)
• 04 James 1:19-27 – How to respond to the gospel (673)
• 13 Romans 8:26-39 Confidence in Christ (660)
• 06 Galatians 3:23-4:11 – The purpose of the Law (647)
• 06 James 2:14-20 – Do James and Paul agree? (646)
• 05 1John 2:18-28: Who is the liar? (638)
• 16 Romans 10 Prayer & Legalism (634)
• 04 1John 2:12-17 Loving the World (630)
• 03 Romans 2 God’s Wrath and the Religious (606)
• Do I choose God or does God choose me? (616)
• 05 James 2:1-13 – What is on the inside counts (611)
• 03 Romans 2 God’s Wrath and the Religious (601)

2020 Bible Studies

• 1 Corinthians 11-16 (20 podcasts)
• Who is the Holy Spirit? (10 podcasts)
• What does it mean to carry your cross, Luke 14:25-35 (1 podcast)
• The Great Banquet Parable, Luke 14:7-24 (1 podcast)
• Return of the Unclean Spirit Matthew 12:43-45 (1 podcast)
• Added Lecture notes for Questions Jesus Asked (18 podcasts)
• Featured 3 talks by Dr. Erika Moore

Resources added in 2020

1. What is hard complementarian?
2. What is a soft complementarian?
3. What is an egalitarian?
4. Resources on women in authority in the church
5. The 4 qualifications for being an apostle
6. Best Good Friday Service (I heard)
7. Word Study Shortcuts
8. Introduction to the Old Testament
9. Introduction to the New Testament
10. Who are the early church fathers?
11. Augustine’s Principles of Interpretation
12. Interpretation terms defined
13. Understanding Scripture Collection
14. Understanding Apocalyptic Literature
15. Understanding the Gospels
16. Introduction to Exile & Return
17. Introduction to the Prophets
18. What is Theology?
19. Who was Nebuchadnezzar?
20. Introduction to the Southern Kingdom
21. Introduction to the Northern Kingdom
22. When did the Exodus happen?
23. Introduction to the Intertestamental period
24. Introduction to Ancient Egypt
25. New Testament Jewish Culture
26. Biblical Greek: Prepositions
27. Biblical Greek: Cases
28. Who was Mark?
29. What’s the difference between “Son of man” and “Son of God”?
30. New Testament Canon: Why these books
31. Land in the Old Testament
32. Finding Strong’s Number

Resource Pages added in 2020

I completed a resource page for every book of the Bible. New in 2020:

1. Exodus
2. Esther
3. Ruth
4. Leviticus
5. Numbers
6. Genesis
7. Deuteronomy
8. Daniel
9. Ezra
10. Joshua
11. Judges
12. 1&2 Kings
13. 1&2 Chronicles
14. Ezekiel
15. Revelation
16. Job
17. Psalms
18. Proverbs
19. Ecclesiastes
20. Song of Solomon
21. Lamentations
22. Hosea
23. Micah
24. Joel
25. Amos
26. Obadiah
27. Jonah
28. Zephaniah
29. Nahum
30. Haggai
31. Zechariah
32. Malachi

Tools, Charts & Lists new in 2020

1. How the Old Testament is organized
2. The Old Testament Books in Chronological Order
3. Exodus-Numbers Parallels
4. Exodus quotes in the New Testament
5. Chart of Israel’s Judges
6. Leviticus quotes in the New Testament
7. Deuteronomy Quotes in the New Testament
8. Minor Prophets Quoted in the New Testament
9. Joshua-Job Quotes in the New Testament
10. Paul’s use of the Old Testament
11. Proverbs-Ecclesiastes Quotes in the New Testament
12. Daniel quotes in the NT
13. Ezekiel quotes in the NT
14. Mathew’s use of the Old Testament
15. Mark’s use of the Old Testament
16. James’ use of the Old Testament
17. Jude’s use of the Old Testament

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