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Engaging with Scripture

Film and VideoUnderstanding Scripture

Bible Lands as Classroom

Krijn van der Jagt, Ray Pritz
The Bible Lands as Classroom series (eight 45 minute DVDs) is an excellent teaching tool for Bible translators, pastors, and people in general who would like to know more about biblical geography, history, and culture. The series was filmed in…
Richard
September 18, 2009
AdvocacyBible Reading

25 Ways to Engage the Bible

Ron Forseth (2007)
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
Understanding Scripture

The Drama of Scripture

Finding our place in the biblical story
Craig Bartholomew, Michael Goheen (2014)
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…
Richard
September 10, 2009
Bible Reading

One-to-one prayer and Bible reading

Colin Marshall
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…
Richard
August 31, 2009
Bible StorytellingWomen

God and Woman

A Chronological Bible Storying Model For Storying the Good News To a Primarily Oral Culture Muslim Women’s Worldview
J. O. Terry (1998)
...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…
Richard
August 31, 2009
Bible Reading

Why Christians Read Their Bibles Poorly

Gordon Fee (2005)
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,…
Richard
August 20, 2009
Bible ReadingDigital

WordLive

Daily multimedia Bible experience from Scripture Union
WordLive is for people who want to meet with God in fresh ways and to engage with the Bible. WordLive is created and maintained by Scripture Union. At the heart of what we do is to try to present the…
Richard
July 30, 2009
Bible Study

The One Minute Bible Study

Especially for men who need to rediscover their love of God's word
Archie Poulos (2001)
Our experience with this approach has been uniformly positive. Men who had neglected their Bibles for years found that this was an achievable goal, and rekindled not only the passion of Bible reading (some never lost it), but also the…
Richard
July 21, 2009
Bible Reading

Unleashing the Word

Rediscovering the Public Reading of Scripture
Max McLean, Warren Bird (2009)
"Modern society is awash in words. An auditory tidal wave cascades from our televisions, radios, media players, and the Internet. Today’s distracted worshippers often feel spiritually shortchanged when the Scriptures are spoken without passion and power. This lively and encouraging…
Richard
June 18, 2009