Posts in category Knowing the Word

Everybody loves that perfect Instagram Bible study moment! You’ve seen the pics plenty of times before. Steam rises off the fresh cup of coffee. Highlighters …

“Give us this day our daily bread,” Jesus taught us to pray, but we tend to bloat this petition beyond the simple cry for daily sustenance. Our “needs” become increasingly elaborate, and these lead to other “needs.”

Why write in your Bible? Here are six kinds of “jottings” I find helpful.

This is the second post on understanding the Old Testament. You can read the first post here. In a previous post I discussed Marcion, the …

If we refuse to align our behavior with our theological beliefs, those beliefs can become worse than useless for us. Beliefs and behavior must be held together.

In the very earliest days of the New Testament and hardly before the ink was dry, the church already faced a pernicious error. Marcion of …

Whatever else we would say about Luke’s story of the angels and the shepherds, it’s definitely memorable. But less clear is the point. Why did …

There’s a very striking story about a man who never learned to read but who had a well-worn Bible. Someone asked him why the pages …

We’ve written before about binge reading the Bible—the idea of getting through the entire book in a short enough time that you can still remember …

Ranging from complex to simple, here are four Bible study tools that are fully online, completely free, and will help you more thoroughly engage with Scripture.