Shopping for a Bible is not for the faint of heart. If you’ve ever wondered, “Which Bible should I use?” and wandered into a Christian bookstore, you’ve probably been overwhelmed by the rows of Bibles, not only in all colors and sizes but also sporting all kinds of acronyms: KJV, NIV, ESV, NLT, NASB. What do they all mean and how can …
After a brief hiatus, yesterday we looked at how to figure out the subject of a Bible passage. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, click here to read that post. As a refresher, these are the 3 questions we need to ask to interpret a Bible passage: What is the Subject of the passage? What does the passage …
So, I wasn’t quite sure how to pick up this series after disappearing for ten days (thanks random cold and post-conference blues), but we’re just going to jump in and finish strong. Okay? For most of this series, we’ve talked about tools we can use to engage with a text in order to understand what it’s saying. We wrote down observations, …
Do you ever feel like you’re not getting enough out of your time in the Word? Or have you ever read a Bible passage and walked away thinking, “That’s great, but I don’t really know how to apply that to my life”? Or perhaps you’ve decided to spend a certain amount of time studying the Bible every day… but the …
“Rest is a form of worship,” she said, and I sat in the conference room feeling the full weight of her words. “Sometimes we feel like if we stop doing all the things that need to be done in order to keep things running smoothly, then our world will come crashing down.” And in my mind I saw the unwritten …