Tag: Bible Study
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No Other Gospel
After learning I would be beginning a new sermon series this week, a study of the book of Galatians, a friend and colleague who is an Army Chaplain asked me if I had read the relatively new book, No Other Gospel. Though I had seen it, I admitted I was not really familiar with it. …
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5 Questions to Read the Bible With Heart & Mind
Tremper Longman summarizes the entire thrust of his book, Reading the Bible With Heart & Mind, in five simple questions: 1. What does this passage of the Bible teach me about God and my relationship with Him? 2. What does this passage tell me about how God has acted in the past? 3. How does…
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Seed of the Word in the Soil of the Heart
“Truly, the Bible as the Word of God has an inherent power, but it is not a coercive power. That is, the Bible does not work it’s effects mechanically. We don’t change just because we read it. Out minds may be engaged in the text, but something must happen in our hearts as well. In…
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Bible Reading Plan for Slackers
I am long overdue to draft a post. But new year equals new beginnings, right? While I will again eschew making any New Years Resolutions, except to resolve not to make any resolutions – (hey, it worked last year!) … I do plan to get back into the swing of writing and posting. Let me…
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The True & Better
In this brief video, Tim Keller shows us how Jesus can be seen throughout the familiar narratives of the Old Testament. This is not an exercise like Where’s Waldo? , where you scour a picture to see if you can find the hidden face. Nor is this mere metaphor. This is God’s intended revelation of…
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A Basic Quiet Time Plan
OK. You sit down in a quiet place, Bible in hand – or at least on the table in front of you. You really mean it this time. You are going to begin having regular “Quiet Times”. But then the practical questions come to mind: How do I do this? What am I supposed to…
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A Word From a VBS Valedictorian
Trekking incognito along the Emmaus Road, shortly after his resurrection, unrecognized even by the few of his own disciples who walked with him, Jesus challenged the groans of perplexity and faithlessness: He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Did not the…
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Bible Reading Plan for Slackers & Shirkers
Let me suggest a different kind of Bible reading plan, one that writer Margie Haack, of Ransom Fellowship, calls “The Bible Reading Plan for Slackers & Shirkers“. She explains: The big difference between this plan and any other I had tried was that it was not tied to any particular date. On any day of…
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How to – or NOT to – Read Your Bible
How should we read our Bibles? There are a number of good ways. But Dane Ortland offers some suggestions about how not to approach it: The Gold Mine Approach – reading the Bible as a vast, cavernous, dark mine, in which one occasionally stumbles upon a nugget of inspiration. Result: confused reading. The Hero Approach…
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Misusing the Proverbs
Great post by John Armstrong on Proverbs. Armstrong asserts: Perhaps no part of Holy Scripture has been more frequently abused… than the book of Proverbs. Armstrong goes on to explain what the proverbs are and are not, and their God-intended purpose. Not long ago a friend and I were discussing this very same problem, after…
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Bible in 6 Minutes
Is there a particular theme that runs through the whole Bible? No doubt there are many stories and lessons, but is there a central message by which we can connect all else? Dane Ortland asked several pastors and scholars if they could summarize the Bible in one sentence. Here are some notable responses: John Frame:…
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Of Paramount Importance
Take a moment to ponder these observations about the paramount importance of God’s Word: Since there is a more excellent appearance of the Spirit of God in the holy scripture than in any other book, it has more power and ability to convey the Spirit and make us spiritual, by imprinting itself upon our hearts.…
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Prevailing: An Honest Look at Philippians 4.13
Sometimes I want to scream! One thing that makes me want to scream is people, Christian people, who under the guise of faith, take scripture out of it’s God-given context and apply it to their own pretentious favor. ARGH!! I wonder, is there any passage where this more frequently occurs than it does with Philippians…
