Today, my wife and I hosted a party for our son Ethan’s first birthday. There were friends, family, a cake, and one of the messiest one-year-olds I have ever seen. I know it is cliché, but it has also proven to be true that “children grow up so fast!” It feels like just last week […]
Author Archives: Eddy Barnes
Reading the Bible Contextually
Recently, I started a series on the question, “how do you read the Bible?” You can read the first post here. In this post, I want to cover the topic of reading the Bible contextually. What is Context? In simplified terms, context is just the words around the words. It is the setting in which […]
Challies on Personal Bible Study
Tim Challies has an excellent article that succinctly considers the question of why Christians should read the Bible. He makes the excellent point that there is no explicit verse that commands Christians to read the Bible on a daily basis. So why do we do it? Here’s an excerpt: When I think about the area […]
A Midweek Prayer
This week, I have been ruminating on Psalm 145. It is a great psalm about God’s greatness. The first verse goes like this: I will extol you, my God and King, and bless your name forever and ever. (Psalm 145:1, ESV) There is something very exciting to me about the fact that Jesus is more […]
Four Years Today!
Today is the four-year anniversary of my marriage to the most beautiful, most caring, most excellent woman in the world! We met in college and despite my nerdiness and lack of athletic skills, I was able to trick her into dating me. We got engaged on Valentines’s day of 2006 and then married July 1, […]