Lesson 1
Biblical Meditation: What Is It?
Required reading: Deepen Your Roots, pp. 11–20
Christian Growth · Free Course
Deepen Your Roots
A Study on Biblical Meditation
Instructor: Pastor Paul J. Bucknell
Move beyond shallow Bible reading into transforming biblical meditation, regular fellowship with God, and fruitful Christian living. Seven lessons move from understanding meditation to practicing it and carrying it into everyday life and service.
Learn · Reflect · Practice · Check Understanding
Biblical meditation is learned by doing it. Each lesson combines video teaching and assigned reading with ungraded reflective questions, a required practical exercise, and a short five-question quiz. Your reflection answers remain private; BFF records only your required completion checkoffs and quiz results.
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Course Books
Deepen Your Roots: A Study on Biblical Meditation
The finalized companion course book. Enrolled students receive its PDF and EPUB links privately through their enrollment message and My Progress page. The assigned readings below follow the final edition.
Abiding in Christ: Walking with Jesus
A free companion book showing biblical meditation in practice through Gospel passages. Its PDF and EPUB links are also supplied to enrolled students.
Start Here
Before Lesson 1: read the Introduction to Deepen Your Roots, pp. 7–9. Your private My Progress page includes the completion checkoff.
Course Lessons
Lesson 2
Biblical Meditation: Its Purpose and Blessing
Required reading: Deepen Your Roots, pp. 21–26
Lesson 3
Biblical Meditation: Meeting with God
Required reading: Deepen Your Roots, pp. 27–49
Lesson 4
Biblical Meditation: Learning the Practice
Required reading: Deepen Your Roots, pp. 51–71
Lesson 5
Biblical Meditation: Abiding in Christ
Required reading: Deepen Your Roots, pp. 73–78
Lesson 6
Biblical Meditation: Preparing the Heart
Required reading: Deepen Your Roots, pp. 79–87
Lesson 7
Biblical Meditation: Bearing Fruit
Required reading: Deepen Your Roots, pp. 89–98
Certificate of Completion
For the certificate track, complete the Start Here reading, all 10 required videos, each lesson’s assigned reading, all seven required exercises, and pass every five-question lesson quiz at 80% or higher. Quizzes may be retaken. When your private record is complete, My Progress opens the certificate-request step for BFF review. There is no separate final exam.