It’s about time and quality. We are all busier than ever (=less time) but we expect visuals to be better than ever (=more quality). How can we design more interesting presentations when we have less time? We need to work hard on fewer presentations, but then share these with others. This way we will all grow in our study, teaching, and preaching of the Bible. Of the 41 courses on this site, 31 are designed by me (Dr. Rick Griffith), but I also have others share good courses with me that will bless others outside of my specialty in biblical studies. The site is the culmination of my teaching God’s Word for 49 years. Here you can freely download 3336 PPT presentations in 265 courses, 21,000 pages of course notes and sermon manuscripts in Word and pdf formats, more than 1400 PowerPoint presentations in English, and hundreds of translations of these by my students and other translators totaling 54 languages. English has 92,000 slides and the most translated languages include 38,000 Chinese and 38,000 Arabic slides. Every biblical book in OT and NT Survey now has at least 150 slides with an average of 456 slides per book of the Bible, plus thousands more in many sermons. The site looks plain but inside each presentation, you’ll find many color pictures, diagrams, and charts in an attractive format. The OT and NT Survey courses total over 30,000 English slides.
Experts say we learn in different ways. Some learn mostly by listening (auditory learners), others by doing (experiential learners), and still others by seeing (visual learners). I am in the last group as a visual learner, having grown up in the TV generation that believes “a picture is worth a thousand words.” There are thousands of websites to learn the Bible in written articles, but whatever you learn from these, you must paste it into your visual presentation for your benefit and to teach others. So this site helps fill in the gap. As far as I know, there is no other website with thousands of free, ready-made PPT presentations to learn and teach the Bible in many languages. If you find others, please let me know at DrRickGriffith@gmail.com as I would like to share resources with these authors and link them to this site. Anyway, people learn best with a combination of hearing, doing, and seeing, so the PPT presentations include text for the teacher to share in the notes section (hearing), small group projects (doing), and attractive pictures on nearly every slide (seeing).
In addition to 92,000 PPT slides in English, I have also uploaded over 21,000 pages of Microsoft Word files and pdfs that cover 41 courses. You can study and/or teach any book of the Bible visually, you can teach an entire course with both PPT and notes provided, or pick a single presentation for personal study, teaching or preaching. Some pastors use the sermon PPT and manuscripts to teach a series. Others teach various courses on apologetics & evangelism, Bible backgrounds, how to study the Bible, Bible geography, leadership, missions, or various courses in theology. One key feature of the site is “The Bible…Basically,” a seminar of nearly 1000 slides. It brings learners through the whole Bible six times in ten hours. Another is the Bible Exposition link here with about 100 slides per Bible book in a single message, along with the manuscript, extra handouts, audio, and video. Also, use the search feature to see which presentation may address the topic you need.
Honestly, there is no “catch.” Free downloads might sound too good to be true when others charge a lot of money for presentations, but you have to take my word for it. God has blessed me as a fully supported missionary professor, so I don’t need to make my living from this site. Please do NOT even write to me to ask for permission to use them, as this fills up both my inbox and my time. However, you can say “thanks” via email (DrRickGriffith@gmail.com) or give a gift by clicking here.
Rick & Susan Griffith serve 21 nations from MENA (Middle East/North Africa) at Jordan Evangelical Theological Seminary (JETS) in Amman. From 1991-2021 they trained Asian leaders from 21 other nations at Singapore Bible College. At BibleStudyDownloads.org, Rick offers 243,000 free PowerPoint slides and articles in 41 courses to Christian leaders in 54 languages. He served as Doctor of Ministry (DMin) Director at Singapore Bible College from 2012-2021. He mainly teaches the Bible (OT and NT) and preaching courses and also helped start a K-12 international school (ics.edu.sg). In 2006 Dr. Rick planted Crossroads International Church (cicfamily.com) to reach people in Singapore and served as pastor-teacher until 2021. He has taught and recruited other professors and pastors to teach Christian leaders on 73 trips to a dozen lesser-developed Asian nations such as Mongolia, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Nepal, Vietnam, etc. He also wrote the Advanced Studies in New and Old Testament courses available at the Internet Biblical Seminary (www.internetseminary.org). Both Rick and Susan grew up in California but he received his Th.M. (in Pastoral Ministries) and Ph.D. (in Bible Exposition) from Dallas Theological Seminary in Texas. They are missionaries with WorldVenture and have three grown sons in the USA, two of whom are married with a grandson and granddaughter. You can connect with Dr. Rick on Facebook here.
I have taught the Bible for 49 years so this site is the culmination of my life’s ministry. However, over 700 others (mostly grad students) have helped me design and translate the tens of thousands of slides on this site. I am indebted to them as well as to other Bible professors and pastors who allow me to upload their courses. This is a community effort.
See the Bible Exposition link here and mp4 videos on various NT books here. Sermon audios are at the Crossroads International Church website here and Amman International Church here. Some courses (OT Survey, OT Backgrounds, NT Survey, NT Backgrounds, Homiletics, etc.) also include audio and/or video next to the PPT and notes for presentations.
This site currently offers 54 languages on the sidebar here. The number next to each language shows how many courses offer files in that language.
Yes, they do. The site includes tens of thousands of copyrighted pictures. Therefore, DO NOT SELL ANY OF THE FILES YOU DOWNLOAD! So here is my “Fair Use Declaration.” This site contains copyrighted material that has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner, especially in terms of images within PowerPoint presentations. I am making such materials available to advance the reader’s teaching, scholarship, and research of biblical, theological, and practical issues. I believe this constitutes a “fair use” of any such copyrighted material as provided in section 107 of the US Copyright Law since these materials are for nonprofit educational purposes, they never copy an entire work, nor do they affect the potential market value of the copyrighted works. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information, go to www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml.
I am an evangelical Christian with a high view of Scripture. I have a Th.M. in Pastoral Ministries and a Ph.D. in Bible Exposition, both from Dallas Theological Seminary. I agree with the DTS doctrinal statement here. The 92,000 English PPT slides and 21,000 pages of notes and sermons on this site reflect over 49 years of teaching the Bible, which I trust implicitly as the Word of God written without error. If you are theologically astute, then you will understand what I mean when I describe myself this way: Trinitarian inerrantist, biblical (Young Earth) creationist, upholding biblical authorship (Moses on Pentateuch, Solomon on Ecclesiastes, Daniel and Isaiah as stated, Pauline authorship of 13 letters, etc.), revised dispensationalist (but leaning towards progressive), pretribulational, premillennial, 3- or 4-point Calvinist (total depravity, unconditional election, irresistible grace, perseverance of God to maintain our salvation), 1- or 2-point Arminian (unlimited atonement, recognition that believers do not all sustain their faith until death), free grace (not Lordship) salvation where one must trust Jesus as truly Lord (meaning he is God) but salvation comes by grace through simple trust in Christ as Savior, partial cessationist (non-charismatic), denominationally Baptistic with the pastor as first among equal elders but with the congregation having final authority, immersion, representative Lord’s Supper, divorce and remarriage allowed for adultery & desertion by an unbeliever, autonomy of the local church, complementarian, biblical marriage, blended worship, and expository preacher. Besides these, I can’t think of any other labels right now.
People have warned me about offering editable PowerPoint and Word files. They say, “You better only give people a pdf that can’t be edited. Otherwise, they will change it and misquote you.” I appreciate the warning. I really do. However, offering only non-editable files will prevent translators from easily translating them into their heart language. I’d rather risk being misquoted than hinder the Word of God from going forth in other languages. But PS: Please don’t misquote me.
Good scholarship shows integrity, so please be honest about your sources. Each PPT file notes on the first slide that it comes from this site or the BibleStudyDownloads.com site that automatically forwards to this site. Please do not delete these slides so others can go to the source. If you cite this site, use the following format. If you edit a slide, precede the citation with “Adapted from…”
FIRST FOOTNOTE:
4Rick Griffith, “Daniel” (PowerPoint presentation, Jordan Evangelical Theological Seminary, 2021), https://biblestudydownloads.org/resource/old-testament-survey/ (accessed 25 August 2021), slide 218.
LATER FOOTNOTE:
25Griffith, “Daniel,” slide 244.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Griffith, Rick. “Daniel.” PowerPoint presentation, Jordan Evangelical Theological Seminary, 2021. https://biblestudydownloads.org/resource/old-testament-survey/ (accessed 25 July 2021).
Older Office software cannot open newer files. Look at the end of the file name. If it says “.ppt” then I saved the file into PowerPoint 2006 and before (PC)/2007 and before (Mac) format. These should be able to be opened by all versions of PowerPoint. However, a few files have “.pptx” at the end. This means that I saved the file into PowerPoint 2007-present (PC) or 2008-present format for Mac. Only these updated versions of PowerPoint software can open .pptx files.
However, try this trick if you only have a pre-2006 version of Office. With the file closed and while looking at the file name only on your hard drive, manually delete the “x” off the “.pptx” appended at the end of the file name, then click outside this file name to complete the change. Then try opening it. Your computer will think that it is an older version of PowerPoint. The same applies to older versions of Word and Excel–just eliminate the “x” in the file name. This is cheaper and faster than buying more software. However, it also means that you will miss some of the nicer functions of the newer software and will have to clean up the files to make the fonts and animations work.
Some files won’t open because they got corrupted somehow. Email me at DrRickGriffith@gmail.com and tell me the file name so I can fix it and upload a clean version.
When looking at a page with the files for download, just click on the language links in the left column to go to the English and other available translations for that course.
The website gives a unique name to every file. Note that we use dashes instead of periods as the period confuses some computers. One exception is the period preceding the kind of file. For example, PowerPoint is preceded by the period as “.ppt” (2006 or older) or “.pptx” (2007 or newer). As a sample file name, 02-Exodus-232_eng_os_4998_v4.pptx identifies presentation 2 called Exodus with 232 slides in English for the Old Testament Survey course with presentation 4998 in version 4 in updated (post-2007) PowerPoint format. All versions 4 and higher have been reduced in size for easier download. Finally, to avoid confusion, no language abbreviation is the same as any course abbreviation. Each language is abbreviated with the three-letter ISO 693-3 format while each course has a two-letter format unique to this website.
Just look at the number in the upper right-hand corner of each slide. The PPT presentation name is generally the same as the course notes. I say “generally” because the notes for all of the Old Testament books are in the OT Survey notes—and likewise, the NT book notes are within the NT Survey notes. If no number appears on the slide, it supplements the notes and I haven’t yet made a handout for it.
I have tried to use only jpeg pictures within the presentations since these are the most common ones read by computers. However, if you find an unreadable tiff or png or other file format and are using a PC, you will need to purchase and install software that allows your PC to read these file formats. Please also email me at drrickgriffith@gmail.com to let me know which presentation and slide need editing.
Designing PPT presentations is part science and part art. It is a skill, but it is a skill that anyone can learn, though those with an artistic flair will catch on more naturally. For a 4-page summary of how to design and use PowerPoint, click PPT_Tips_5th_ed.
Listen to God’s Word in any of 1669+ languages—or even download them—just by clicking here. See links to other helpful sites at the top of this page.
Watch the 3-minute video introduction to Jordan Evangelical Theological Seminary here.
Watch the 3-minute video introduction to Singapore Bible College here.
Here is one of the most important FAQs ever—just click The Secret – Ver 11.2 (Paul Tanner).