The Bible is both literature and the primary source of information about God and from God. So we must learn to read it well. Here is a simple list of actions to do while your read. (Next post will include a fuller process.) Read: Conscious concentration with repetition. Record: Write down what you see in …
Category: Resources
Overview of the Bible in Two Weeks
My wife just finished reading through the Old Testament and I’m getting ready to teach a New Testament survey course at LBC. So it seemed appropriate to pass along this good and quick reading suggestion. There is no substitute for personal reading of Scripture. (I’ll post a few suggestion for how to read in the …
Repeater of God’s Word
Great quote from Spurgeon. Spurgeon: I am content to live and die as the mean repeater of scriptural teaching, as a person who . . . invented nothing, as one who never thought invention to be any part of his calling, but who concluded that he was to take the message from the lips of …
Self promoting or promoted by God
Jonathan Edwards (in Charity And Its Fruits): If you are selfish, and make yourself and your own private interests your idol, God will leave you to yourself, and let you promote your own interests as well as you can. But if you do not selfishly seek your own, but do seek the things that are …
What Americans Believe about Universalism and Pluralism
While survey can’t tell the whole story, this is a survey summary worth. The Barna Group did a survey to identify what Americans in general and what those who claim to be Christian’s believe about universalism and pluralism. Particularly interesting is some of the issue identified related to different generations. You can read the whole …
Reverse Thinking
I know this has been posted other places–but worth a reminder. This was created by www.sermonspice.com
Link: An Interview with Lecrae and Trip Lee
I love to see the proper contextualization of Christianity. Here is a link to a long video interview between Justin Taylor (Managing Editor of the ESV Study Bible) and two wonderfully talented, biblically passionate hip hop artists. Lecrae will be performing as part of Vision Conference, 3/19/11 (check out the new website). Click here to …