The following is a guest post by Alan Hicks. Before the Protestant Reformation only clergy and highly educated people had access to the Scriptures because they were written in Latin, a language that most people at that time no longer understood. Therefore the masses depended on the Roman Catholic Church (really the only church around) […]
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How Do You Stay Sane?
Last week I started reading Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality by Scott Belsky. The main premise behind the book is that creative people often are good at creating new and innovative ideas, but are bad at follow-through to reality. Belsky and his team researched various successful and creative people and […]
Reading the Bible Prayerfully
A few weeks ago, I began a series of posts on how to read the Bible. The first two posts discussed reading the Bible consistently and contextually. In this post, I wanted to address how we can read the Bible prayerfully. Reading the Bible prayerfully is not a complicated concept. It just means that when […]
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 […]
Five Tips to Read the Bible Consistently
I mentioned in a previous post that consistently reading the Bible is a discipline that can be difficult to develop. Here are a few thoughts have been helpful to me to begin reading the Bible daily. Identify a time. – If you’re like me, then if you don’t schedule a time to read, you’ll come […]