https://the-way.lewy.au/ Personal Bible study notes: the Old and New Testaments read in context, with word studies in the original languages and every claim traceable to a source. en-au https://the-way.lewy.au/jesus/the-cups-jesus-drank/ https://the-way.lewy.au/jesus/the-cups-jesus-drank/ Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 From the wine at Cana to the sour wine at Golgotha: the cup Jesus named as His death, the cup He refused on arrival at the cross and the one He received at the end, why He took the second, what the Talmud, Josephus and the early church add, and the cup still to come. https://the-way.lewy.au/youth/prayer-as-communion/ https://the-way.lewy.au/youth/prayer-as-communion/ Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The prayer Jesus taught, for young readers aged 8-16: God's child talking with the Father, asking for His will first and for today's bread. https://the-way.lewy.au/youth/woman-at-well/ https://the-way.lewy.au/youth/woman-at-well/ Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 John 4 for young readers aged 8-16: a deep hole, a spring, and the Holy Spirit Jesus gives to anyone who asks. https://the-way.lewy.au/god/precious-stones/ https://the-way.lewy.au/god/precious-stones/ Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Why Ezekiel and John describe God's throne and the New Jerusalem in gemstones: what each stone was, how the breastpiece, Ezekiel 28 and Revelation 21 share one list, and what a stone's light (lustre, dispersion, asterism, pleochroism) shows about the glory of God. https://the-way.lewy.au/christian-life/psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs/ https://the-way.lewy.au/christian-life/psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs/ Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 What Paul meant by psalms, hymns and spiritual songs in Ephesians 5:19 and Colossians 3:16, where the three words come from, the songs Israel and the first church sang, and why a Spirit-filled church sings. https://the-way.lewy.au/resources/songbook/ https://the-way.lewy.au/resources/songbook/ Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A body of psalms, hymns and spiritual songs to remember: the songs of Scripture, the songs Jesus sang and quoted, and the earliest Christian songs, with who first sang each and when to sing it. https://the-way.lewy.au/sin/why-we-need-saving/ https://the-way.lewy.au/sin/why-we-need-saving/ Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 God is good, and He gave His commands for your good. Sin is turning from His way to your own, believing the lie that His good is evil and your way is better. Since Adam everyone has done it, so sin separates you from God, enslaves you and earns you death. That is why God sent His Son Jesus to die for you while you were still a sinner. https://the-way.lewy.au/series/assurance/ https://the-way.lewy.au/series/assurance/ Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 One session on assurance of salvation, for a guest night or a friend asking the question. https://the-way.lewy.au/series/end-times-fundamentals/ https://the-way.lewy.au/series/end-times-fundamentals/ Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Seven weeks on what God has said about the end: how to read prophecy, the kingdom, Daniel's outline of history, the rapture, the resurrection body, the judgment seat of Christ, and how to wait. https://the-way.lewy.au/series/learning-to-pray/ https://the-way.lewy.au/series/learning-to-pray/ Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Four weeks on prayer: what it is, the prayer Jesus taught, how God answers, and fasting. https://the-way.lewy.au/christian-life/salt-light-and-aroma/ https://the-way.lewy.au/christian-life/salt-light-and-aroma/ Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Jesus told His disciples, "You are the salt of the earth" and "You are the light of the world"; Paul wrote, "we are the aroma of Christ to God." What each picture meant to its first hearers, what it asks of one believer and of a whole church, and the churches Jesus calls lampstands. https://the-way.lewy.au/series/saved/ https://the-way.lewy.au/series/saved/ Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 What God does when He saves you, one doctrine a week: why you need saving, grace, faith, repentance, justification, adoption, being made holy and assurance. https://the-way.lewy.au/series/autumn-feasts/ https://the-way.lewy.au/series/autumn-feasts/ Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Three weeks on the feasts of the seventh month, for September and October: Trumpets, the Day of Atonement and Tabernacles. https://the-way.lewy.au/series/the-bride/ https://the-way.lewy.au/series/the-bride/ Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Four weeks on the church as the bride of Christ: betrothed, set beside Babylon the harlot, married at the marriage of the Lamb, and in the city called the Bride. https://the-way.lewy.au/series/the-gospel-in-the-old-testament/ https://the-way.lewy.au/series/the-gospel-in-the-old-testament/ Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Five weeks on the pictures of the gospel God drew in Israel's history: the Passover lamb, the bronze serpent, the Day of Atonement, the kinsman redeemer and the priest in the order of Melchizedek. https://the-way.lewy.au/series/the-nature-of-god/ https://the-way.lewy.au/series/the-nature-of-god/ Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Who God is, from what creation shows everyone to the names He gives Himself as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. https://the-way.lewy.au/series/olivet-discourse/ https://the-way.lewy.au/series/olivet-discourse/ Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Matthew 24 in six weeks: the disciples' question, the coming of the Son of Man, the fig tree, words that outlast heaven and earth, the day no one knows, and one taken, one left. https://the-way.lewy.au/series/sermon-on-the-mount/ https://the-way.lewy.au/series/sermon-on-the-mount/ Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Matthew 5-7 in the order Jesus preached it: salt and light, the Lord's Prayer and the kingdom it asks for, forgiveness, and fasting. https://the-way.lewy.au/series/spring-feasts/ https://the-way.lewy.au/series/spring-feasts/ Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Six weeks from Passover to Pentecost: the lamb, the Last Supper's cups, the Lord's Supper, unleavened bread, the firstfruits sheaf and the Feast of Weeks. https://the-way.lewy.au/jesus/the-heavenly-pattern/table/ https://the-way.lewy.au/jesus/the-heavenly-pattern/table/ Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Exodus 25:23-30 to Luke 22:30: the gold table in God's tent and the twelve loaves kept on it before His face every Sabbath, the holy bread David ate at Nob, Jesus' answer about it in the grainfields, the table of the Lord, and the table He promises in His kingdom.