how to read the Bible #3

Part 3 in a bible reading series
why we read the Bible

How to read the Bible

We’re experimenting with some teaching stuff  online.  Let  me know what you think about both format and content
Thanks and enjoy

how you know you’ve spent to much time in revelation

So we’ve been looking at revelation since September.
At work a common combination of items with taxes adds up to 6.67
One day this number came up on the till, and I announced to the customer and my co-workers “all together… 6.67. Ah, six six seven, the neighbour of the beast”
no one laughed

52 books #6: Walking the Bible - Bruce Feiler

Walking the Bible - Bruce Feiler
I found this book in a church library and picked it up. It became my before bed reading. I realized not too long ago that I couldn’t read books that involved me too much before bed because I wouldn’t sleep, so I now try to pick books that are meek [...]

52 books #3

The War Room - Warren Kinsella

Well I finished The War Room. It was an entertaining read: very informative on the inner view of the world of politics. It would be easy to be callous and cynical about the political process, but what prevented that for me was Kinsella’s personality. I believe that he cares deeply [...]

52 books #2

A Community Called Atonement - Scot McKnight
I once got an email from the author after I commented on his blog. He wanted to know if I was the Daniel Taylor who wrote The Myth of Certainty. I’m not. Sorry to disappoint both of you. I’m also not the opera singer nor the artist. (As [...]

tricycles

If you ever get a chance to read A Tale of Three Kings by Gene Edwards I highly recommend it. It’s basically a book about suffering and brokenness with no easy answers. I’ve come back to again lately.
The basic premise is this: God desires a heart willing to follow him more than he desires our [...]

table

I’m going to stick with worry again today. It’s on my mind today and I think there a lot of us for who worry, rather than being an unfamiliar and foreign land, feels almost like home.
A while back I found myself returning again and again to Psalm 23. I didn’t like it at first. Psalm [...]

dizzy

I have to preface his post by mentioning that I wrote this in the summer. Every once in a while I have a rough day and I start listening to the voice in my head that tells me I’m not good at writing or communicating, that I’m a lousy pastor and I should just focus [...]

Work of my hands

I  preached, taught, sermonized, whatever you want to call it on Sunday on Revelation 9. It’s been really good for me to preach through Revelation because I think this is probably the first time I’ve actually read it as an adult. For most of my life the primary feeling evoked by the final book of [...]