Five Strategies for Daily Bible Reading
Gavin Ortlund One of the issues that comes up most often frequently when I am discipling others in the church is the struggle to do daily Bible reading. And it doesn’t necessarily get easier for those of us who are in ministry or study the Bible in an academic context. As I have tried to help guys struggling in this area, I’ve come up with a couple basic ideas that some have found helpful.
Three Ways to Help Bible Beginners
Ben Stuart Lots of people, probably many in your own life, are curious about the Bible or maybe even want to read it, but don’t know where to start. Many of us woke up this morning ourselves wanting to start reading the Bible again, but not sure where to turn today. In two minutes, Ben Stuart gives us a few places to turn when we’ve never read the Bible before or when we don’t know where to turn.
Re-ignite Bible Reading That’s Become Boring
David Murray We’ve all been there. Reading the Bible can become boring. Our eyes are on the page but our minds are everywhere else; because everywhere else is just so much more interesting. We may pick up our Bibles, open the pages, and scan the lines, but our hearts just aren’t in it. Well, here are some ideas to help you re-ignite your Bible reading...
3 Tips for Bad Bible Study, Part 3
Brian Roberg Today we conclude our series helping you avoid the troublesome effects of good Bible study. Having mastered these tips, you’re ready to complete the trifecta of biblical impotency...
3 Tips for Bad Bible Study, Part 2
Brian Roberg In the first post of this series we looked at a tried-and-true method for achieving bland, ineffective Bible study. Today we’ll add a second method to our arsenal...
3 Tips for Bad Bible Study, Part 1
Brian Roberg Has your time in the Word been too powerful lately? Want to get rid of that nagging feeling of peace you get when you trust the God you encounter in the Scriptures? If so, you need to make some adjustments to your approach to the Bible. In this brief series of posts we’ll consider three surefire ways to make Bible reading boring and irrelevant again...
Your One Thing: Devotional Minimalism
Clint Archer In the frenetic pace of our lives we are all daily presented with urgent, important problems to navigate. Work demands, family responsibilities, health requirements, time constraints, and innumerable other forces are constantly foisted onto our cluttered priority list. Often the first item to get cut from the list is our time of devotions...
Let's Be Honest: Reasons Why We Don't Read Our Bibles
Erik Raymond If we were to survey Christians at evangelical churches in America most people would agree that they need to read their Bibles. They understand that it is both required and good for them. But the sad truth is, many do not. This lands us in that strange place of knowing, but yet still avoiding, what is good and beneficial for us. Why do we do it?
3 Reasons Why Reading the Bible Feels Like a Chore
Aaron Armstrong Christian, if studying the Bible isn’t really your thing, can we chat for a minute? While Christianity isn’t dependent upon our academic inclinations, nor our interest in reading in general...
5 Ways to Read the Bible for Personal Application
Joe Carter The Bible is a book about God, not a book about us. And yet as Paul says, everything in the Bible was written for us...
Believer, Become What You Are
John Piper Believer, you died and the new you is alive, and you are God’s. The whole of our Christian life is learning to become — by God’s Spirit — what we already are in Christ...