Discern the Difference Between Biblical Commands and Biblical Narrative In the Bible We Must Distinguish Between Prescriptive Text and Descriptive Text The Bible contains a lot of versus that tell us what to do and what not to do. These verses...
The Bible is the Big Book of Questions Questions Arise as We Study the Bible and That’s Okay In the post Is It Okay to Question God? I share stories of Job, Abraham, Moses, David, Mary, and Jesus. They all question God. Seriously, they do. But...
Do Christians Need to Read the Old Testament of the Bible? Since the New Testament Focuses on Jesus Isn’t It All We Need? We read the Bible because it reveals God to us. It is the foundation of our faith. But do we need to read all scripture, the...
Don’t Make New Year’s Resolutions You Won’t Keep Instead of Resolutions, Form Habits You Can Sustain Do you normally make New Year’s resolutions? How’s that work for you? When I used to do that, things never turned out so well. I might make it a...
Don’t Burn the Bible We Would Never Burn Scripture, but Ignoring a Passage Is as Bad God tells his prophet Jeremiah what to say. Jeremiah dictates it to his scribe, Baruch, who records it in a scroll. The scroll eventually makes it to the king...
The Final Words from New Testament Books What Can We Learn from the Ending Sentence or Thought in Each Book of the Bible? As a writer I know the two most important things of anything I write are the beginning and the ending. A strong opening...
The Art of Bible Study Lessons of Art Appreciation Can Help Us Study the Word of God Until recently I never considered myself a creative person, and I certainly never considered myself an artist. However, I recently realized that I create art...
Ask God to Go with Us God Promises to Go Before His People and Be Their Rear Guard In Isaiah’s lengthy prophecy, he tells God’s people in Jerusalem that they need to leave. However, they don’t need to leave in haste. This is because God will go...
Read the Bible with Intention Study Scripture in a Different Way to Glean More from It For most of my adult life, even going back to my teenage years, I’ve read the Bible most every day. Yet there were a few times when I needed to take a break...
The Bible Presents Us with a Narrative to Inform Our Lives Reading the Bible as narrative frees us to experience God in a fuller, deeper way Continuing in our series of why I love the Bible, we’re on reason number twelve. I often say that I read...
