Do you feel bored with your Bible? I’ve made it my mission to help Christians find joy in Jesus through creative and enjoyable Bible habits. Because life with Jesus is anything but boring! Below you’ll find 7 fresh ideas to bring vibrancy to your Bible reading today. Enjoyable Bible habits are a big thing around here. We believe God created …
25 Simple Ways to Make Christmas More Meaningful
For the last few years, I’ve been on a mission to redeem Christmas. Not from over-commercialization or de-Christianization, but from bad memories. For me, the Christmas season carries a heavy load of memories about arguments over tree toppers, disappointments because I didn’t get someone “the perfect gift,” and general ill-feelings that I’ll never measure up. I’d venture a guess that …
5 Smart Ways to Organize Your Prayer Life
Have you ever told someone you’d pray for them and then forgot? Or maybe you’ve been meaning to pray more for your husband or children, but you just don’t get around to it? It’s easy for our prayer lives to get buried under the pressing things in life. The laundry pile, the incoming emails, the daily task of figuring our …
How to Instill in Kids a Love for God’s Word
It was my favorite room in the house. Small but smelling strongly of fresh pine wood, my father’s study fascinated me with its floor to ceiling shelves lined with hundreds and hundreds of books. And there, in the center, was my dad, usually working on a sermon, underlining an important point in one of his reference books or highlighting potential …
See the Bible in a New Way: A Review of the NLT Illustrated Study Bible
If you’re a visual learner, studying the Bible can be a challenge. It’s hard to picture a world that’s so different from ours, and some of the stories and metaphors simply don’t make sense to 21st-century Westerners. Sometimes, I’m a little jealous of little kid Bibles filled with cute illustrations. Okay, so maybe cartoon drawings aren’t exactly helpful in explaining …