Scripture Engagement

Advocacy Bible Reading

25 Ways to Engage the Bible

Of this I am convinced: This side of heaven there is nothing more wonderful we could ever hold in our hands or engage with our minds than God’s Word as given to us in the Bible. The author describes 25…

RichardSeptember 15, 2009

Advocacy

CABTAL Church Relations Initiatives

It is important for all of the local churches to be increasingly implicated in the translation project for the following reasons: It ensures that the translated Scriptures will be used after the New Testament’s publication, so that there will be…

RichardSeptember 13, 2009

Culture Leadership Training

African Traditional Religion and Christian Counseling

We soon found that even the most experienced Christian leaders were not always sure how to relate the cultural phenomena to the biblical picture. On the whole, the church had bypassed the task of interpreting the cultural picture from the…

RichardSeptember 13, 2009

Understanding Scripture

The Drama of Scripture

Many of us have read the Bible as if it was merely a mosaic of little bits - theological bits, moral bits, historical-critical bits, sermon bits, devotional bits, narrative bits. But to read the Bible in such a fragmented way…

RichardSeptember 10, 2009

Bible Reading

One-to-one prayer and Bible reading

If I had to hazard a guess as to how many Christians engage in one-to-one Bible reading and prayer, I would say less than 1%. I have no data on this; it's just a hunch. This seems strange if it…

RichardAugust 31, 2009

Bible Storytelling Women

God and Woman

...where the men focused upon the action in the story and in the broad strokes of doctrinal truth, the women focused upon relationships, feelings and emotions of the story characters as related to themselves, and family structure. There was a…

RichardAugust 31, 2009

Film and Video

The Gospel of John

The Gospel of John is a 2003 epic film that recounts the life of Jesus according to the Gospel of John. This three-hour feature film follows John's Gospel precisely, without additions to the story from the other Gospels or omissions…

RichardAugust 31, 2009

Audio Film and Video Radio

Media in Church and Mission

Pilot programs have clearly shown that extensive word and concept explanations are often needed if a non-Christian is to understand the written text as read on a cassette. The explanations will need to be provided in a format that is…

RichardAugust 22, 2009

Bible Reading

Why Christians Read Their Bibles Poorly

We miss a great deal of the New Testament... because we are so poorly informed about the Old. And the point to make here is that the first readers of these New Testament documents, those whose heirs we have become,…

RichardAugust 20, 2009

Marketing and Distribution

Ajami and Roman Script Calendar

It has been amazing to see this calendar posted in the main markets of Northern Cameroon... We have found this tool an excellent method to get the Word of God out to the general populace. A tool that has encouraged…

RichardAugust 20, 2009

25 Ways to Engage the Bible

CABTAL Church Relations Initiatives

African Traditional Religion and Christian Counseling

The Drama of Scripture

One-to-one prayer and Bible reading

God and Woman

The Gospel of John

Media in Church and Mission

Why Christians Read Their Bibles Poorly

Ajami and Roman Script Calendar

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