(Here’s an excerpt from an e-mail answering someone’s question on how to re-approach scripture reading after it has lost its excitement and meaning.) You certainly don’t ask an easy question, but it sure is an important one. Here are the thoughts I’ve had on making bible reading more effective: Make it fun. Get a bible […]
I’m talking at length about wine tomorrow at church as part of a sermon on Jesus turning Water into Wine. In case you’re interested, here is a great little article on the subject of Alcohol and the Bible by Daniel Wallace, a widely respected New Testament and Greek scholar (he wrote the Greek textbooks that
Usually, the most challenging thing about personal bible study for me is finding solitude. Finding enough time free of distraction and stress to sit down and let the scriptures become first desirable, then available, and finally transforming. Surgeries are scheduled and anesthesia is given in doses to insure that a patient will remain in place
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