Category

Engaging with Scripture

Understanding Scripture

The Perspicuity of Scripture

"A useful analogy... might be to picture the clarity of Scripture as a journey to a distant mountain that we see clearly from afar but see in more detail—and understand more of what we see—as we journey toward the mountain…
Richard
December 30, 2009
Bible ReadingMeditation and Prayer

Eat This Book

"I want to pull the Christian Scriptures back from the margins of the contemporary imagination where they have been so rudely elbowed by their glamorous competitors, and reestablish them at the center as the text for living the Christian life…
Richard
November 28, 2009
Bible Storytelling

Christian Storytelling and Bible Telling

"Our goal is to network Christian Storytellers and nurture storytelling in the Christian community. We want to be a resource for churches and Christian organizations." The website offers a free story each month and resources for developing storytelling skills -…
Richard
November 28, 2009
Bible StorytellingDiscipleshipEvangelism

Basic Bible Storying

Bible Storying is the intentional and uninterrupted sharing of God's Word primarily as stories. These stories are usually supplemented with culturally appropriate learning exercises that are listener sensitive. The stories may be told as part of a strategy of telling…
Richard
October 16, 2009
Bible Reading

More Precious than Gold

God reveals himself to us in Scripture. As we read the Bible daily, he gradually works on our thinking, our will and our emotions so we can love him 'with all our mind, our strength, our soul, our heart'. The…
Richard
September 29, 2009
AdvocacyBible 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…
Richard
September 15, 2009