(This is the fourth in an occasional series.) #4 – Have pencil and paper ready. This tip has two benefits. First, we can more easily remember what we’ve read if we take the time to write some things down. I don’t know how many times I’ve finished reading something and have almost no idea of [...]
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Tips for Bible Reading – 4
Posted in Bible, reading on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Why Should We Read the Bible?
Posted in Bible, Books, Godliness, Quotes, reading on October 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Donald Whitney, in his excellent book Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, explains the importance of “Bible intake” as he calls it. No Spiritual Discipline is more important than the intake of God’s Word. Nothing can substitute for it. There is simply no healthy Christian life apart from a diet of the milk and meat of Scripture. The reasons [...]
5 Good Books on God
Posted in 5 Good..., Books, R.C. Sproul Jr., reading, Recommendations on October 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here are five good books on God I would heartily recommend. None of them is exhaustive, of course, because God Himself is inexhaustible, but each of them has helped refine my view of the true and living Triune God. These five books are “good.” They may or may not be “the best,” but they [...]
Tips for Reading the Bible – 3
Posted in Bible, reading on August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Third – Recognize the different types of reading. All reading is not created equal. We don’t read everything the same way, in other words. Even the same book, article, story, or document can be read differently at different times. As we prepare to read something, we need to decide what type of reading we’ll [...]
Tips for Reading the Bible – 2
Posted in Bible, practical stuff, reading on August 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
(This is the second in a series designed to give some help to people who have never read the Bible or who haven’t read it much. If you do read and study God’s Word regularly – which I hope and pray you do, may these tips be helpful to you, also.) Second: Get a [...]
Tips for Reading the Bible
Posted in Bible, practical stuff, reading on July 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Here are some suggestions for those who’ve never read the Bible before or who haven’t read it regularly for quite awhile. This topic comes up from time to time as I talk with people at church or at school. “Can you give me some tips” they’ll ask. Well, here is the first of several more [...]
I Can’t Believe I Read the Whole Thing!
Posted in Bible, reading, Sermons on September 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Tomorrow, I’ll begin preaching through the gospel of Mark – passage by passage and consecutively. I’ve never preached through Mark, or a book that large, before. I’m looking forward to it! Because of that, I decided to do something I haven’t done in quite a while – I read the entire book in one sitting. It took [...]
This is going to be a tough book to read
Posted in Books, Christian life, discipleship, faith in life, my life, reading on July 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve read about fifty pages of Respectable Sins, by Jerry Bridges, so far, and I must say this is going to be a tough book to read. It won’t be tough because the words themselves are beyond my ability – they aren’t. It will be tough because of how those words are strung together [...]
Waltke’s Wise Words
Posted in Books, Quotes, reading, theology on July 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Professor Bruce Waltke has this to say about how we think and speak of God: God, who is over all, represents himself by masculine names and titles, not feminine ones. He identifies himself as Father, Son, and Spirit, not Parent, Child, and Spirit, nor Mother, Daughter, and Spirit. Jesus taught his church to address [...]
