Scripture Engagement

Bible Translation Culture Language Issues Leadership Training

La Traduction de la Bible et l’Eglise

This book - 'Bible Translation and the Church: Issues and challenges for Francophone Africa' - was written as part of the Francophone Initiative in collaboration with CITAF (Conseil des Institutions Théologiques d’Afrique Francophone) - a consortium of evangelical theological institutions…

RichardOctober 13, 2010

Children Understanding Scripture Young People

Timelining Scripture Workshop

"The pattern of a fundamentally fragmented and disconnected understanding of Scripture still remains a major issue for those within Christendom, in both the majority and minority world." Timelining Scripture is an innovative, yet simple Bible engagement tool that helps people…

RichardOctober 11, 2010

Digital

The Little Phone That Could: Mobile-Empowered Ministry

"What we had failed to notice was that these nomads already had media players—their mobile phones! They were using them to listen to music and poetry as well as view videos. This realization changed our strategy, so we now start…

RichardOctober 8, 2010

Language Issues Leadership Training

Training Church Leaders from Minority Language Groups in Multilingual Bible Schools

"When the Scriptures are available in the mother tongue, students will use them if encouraged to do so by the staff of the training institutions. Professors may not understand the languages their students are working in and they may find…

RichardOctober 7, 2010

Bible Reading

Barriers that Prevent us from Encountering the Word

"Our tendency is to “tame” Scripture and make it safe. While we desire to encounter Scripture on its own terms and allow it to speak its liberating word in into our lives, very often we (consciously or unconsciously) work to…

RichardOctober 1, 2010

Bible Study

Iron Sharpens Iron

"Orlando Saer's Iron Sharpens Iron may well become the "Bible" for small group studies--as the author's six finely wrought chapters cover virtually everything essential to initiating and maintaining healthy small group Bible studies. There is nothing arm-chair here... Saer writes…

RichardSeptember 22, 2010

Bible Study

Colocando a Bíblia em Ação

This is the Brazilian Portuguese version of the book Translating the Bible into Action by Harriet Hill and Margaret Hill. A tried and tested resource that encourages meaningful Bible use in multi-lingual contexts through both written and oral media. Includes…

RichardAugust 24, 2010

Research

Bible Engagement Among Australian Young People

"In Australia, frequent Bible reading is the practice of a small group (between 3% and 5%) of young people. This is predominantly a sub-group of those who are involved in Evangelical and Pentecostal churches and youth groups, and those who…

RichardAugust 16, 2010

Bible Preaching

He began with Moses…

"Contemporary people too can find their hearts burning as they hear God speak through the Old Testament texts. However, preaching from this part of the Christian Bible brings significant challenges and raises a number of issues, and hence can be…

RichardJuly 1, 2010