Olive Tree Blog
Category

Look Inside

Category

Look Inside Olive Tree Resources

Wondering what Bible study tools are right for you? Take a look inside Olive Tree resources and decide for yourself. We’ll give our thoughts on it, too.

Some categories of resources include Bibles, study Bibles, commentaries, and dictionaries. Also, there are posts on more unique resources! For example, learn about Calvin’s Institutes or audio devotionals. In these posts, we’ll show you screenshots and gifs of how it works and special features.

If you don’t find what you’re looking for, feel free to contact us. You can do so by emailing support@olivetree.com or messaging us directly on social media. We will do our best to answer your questions!

Study Bibles

Metaphors for Sanctification

In the third chapter of Colossians, Paul provides several metaphors for the believer’s growth in holiness. As a result of the believer’s union with Christ, they are to put some things to death, put off some things that they used to wear, and put on new things that resemble the…

Keep Reading
Commentaries

God’s Unbreakable and Inseparable Love

One of the most profound statements on God’s unbreakable and inseparable love for his people in Christ is Romans 8:38–39. In these two verses Paul basically states that there is nothing that can separate us from God’s love in Christ. According to Grant Osborne, this results in the “absolute security…

Keep Reading
Commentaries

Warnings in the Sermon on the Mount

The words of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount are some of the most well-known among his followers, and even among those who don’t recognize him as Lord. His original listeners were astounded by his teaching as well. Matthew tells us that they “were amazed at his teaching, because…

Keep Reading
Commentaries

Worthy Is the Lamb

Revelation 4–5 provide a vision of what the apostle John saw as he was transported to heaven. The vision consists of a worship service as angels, elders, and creatures surround the throne of God and worship the one who sits upon it. In chapter 5, the vision shifts from the…

Keep Reading
Commentaries

Hear, O Israel

At the heart of God’s commandments is an all-encompassing desire to love and honor God as the one and only God. Another way to say this is to say that the center of God’s commandments is God himself. We see this in what has been referred to as the Shema.…

Keep Reading
Study Bibles

Authentic Ministry

Paul provides a glimpse of his ministry among the Thessalonians that shows us what authentic ministry looks like. Let’s see what we can learn from his example as he describes this for the Thessalonians. We’re using content from the CSB Life Connections Study Bible to shed light on his example…

Keep Reading
Commentaries

Your Kingdom Come

The Lord’s Prayer, as it has been commonly referred to by Christians for centuries, is an example of how Jesus instructed his disciples to pray. Instead of drawing attention to themselves with public prayers or trying to get God’s attention through vain repetition, followers of Jesus are to pray to…

Keep Reading
Commentaries

A Community Shaped by the Cross

How does Paul’s message of “Jesus Christ and him crucified” form and shape the communities of those who follow Jesus? What can we learn from the examples we see in Scripture? Richard Hays unpacks the significance of Paul’s message of Christ crucified from 1 Corinthians for contemporary teachers and preachers…

Keep Reading
Commentaries

Is All Vanity? The Puzzle of Ecclesiastes

The opening sentences of Ecclesiastes are probably among the most depressing opening sentences of any work of literature, ancient or otherwise. “Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity” (Eccl. 1:2). There doesn’t seem to be too much of a point to anything and one wonders…

Keep Reading
Load More